UrbEX – Handbook of Urban Exploration for youths
This handbook is directed at youth workers, educators and civil servants who work with youths and / or in disadvantaged urban contexts in processes of social inclusion, empowerment, contrast to school drop-out etc. It aims at providing ideas and tools to employ spatial exploration methods with youths. The method targets in particular youths at risk of […]
readEdu-City Handbook – The neighbourhood as a learning space
This handbook is a result of the Erasmus plus project EduCity. It is directed at practitioners, educators, civil servants and engaged citizens who are active in processes of social inclusion and community empowerment in urban contexts. It aims at providing ideas and tools to exploit the neighbourhood as an active site for mutual learning, innovation […]
readINHABIT GDEI STAKEHOLDERS ENGAGEMENT TOOLKIT
The IN-HABIT Toolkit aims to provide a set of guidelines, methods and tools for the wider engagement of stakeholders in the People-public-private partnerships (PPPPs). It includes instructions for stakeholders mapping and local needs assessment, selection criteria, structure, working rules and diversity management procedures, co-design methodology, and the necessary guidelines and templates for the creation and […]
readThe Just City Dimension
The Just City Dimension – How UAEU partnerships can be used by policy and decision-makers to end homelessness and provide adequate and affordable housing is a new article by Laura Colini published on the EU Urban Agenda platform. This article is part of a series of articles based on the 14 Partnerships of the Urban Agenda […]
readStudio sull’autrorecupero dei Beni Comuni
As part of the URBACT Civic E-State project, Tesserae senior researcher Lorenzo Tripodi was commissioned to lead a study on the practices of “autorecupero and autocostruzione” (community-led self construction and renovation), as practiced in recent decades in Italy. A report of the full results of this study are presented below. Background The study was aimed at […]
readTowards NGO Houses: Approaches to the traditional people’s house model
Tesserae senior researcher Laura Colini has contributed a chapter to a new book on the power of civic ecosystems published by Cooperative City Books. The chapter, titled “Towards NGO Houses: Approaches to the traditional people’s house model”, focuses on a practice developed by the municipality of Riga called the NGO House, a type of centre promoting the […]
readMemory and Resistance
Issue #81 of Dèrive Magazine is dedicated to Democratic Spaces, and looks at the past, present and future of open, non-commercial, hybrid spaces of participation. It includes an article by Lorenzo Tripodi, Laura Colini and Manuela Conti about the Museu da Maré and the Network of Social Museology of Rio de Janeiro. The article is one […]
readCALICO Journal n.1
In this first Journal for the Brussels CALICO project UIA expert Laura Colini provides a descriptive overview of the project and focuses on the 7 UIA challenges. Furthermore, she explores “the model of the Community Land Trust (CLT), known for providing affordable non-market oriented housing based on long-term land lease governed by a trust”. Read/download […]
readTelescoping the City
Tripodi, L. (2020). Telescoping the City: Technological Urbiquity, or Perceiving Ourselves from the Above. Space and Culture. Abstract The paradigmatic turn into network society has radically transformed the capacity to situate ourselves into geographical extension and communities. While the view from above has historically represented privileged vantage points reserved for elites, the popularization of mobile […]
readTHE B-MINCOME PROJECT JOURNAL N.5
The challenge to innovate social work: How BMINCOME brings about a shift
readThe B-Mincome project Journal n.4
How to set up a city entrepreneurship programme in social, solidarity, and coop economy? Which challenges have been faced and which solutions the city of Barcelona has developed? This are just some of the themes addressed by UIA Expert Laura Colini, in this Journal edition of B-MINCOME project. The Active Policy on Social, Solidarity and […]
readURBEX toolkit
Urban exploration as a tool for the engagement of youths at risk of exclusion.
readCoMMA Neighbourhood Atlas
Article by Lorenzo Tripodi published in Dérive Magazine n. 73 "Nachbarschaft"
readCOMENSI Toolkit for community engagement
COMENSI Toolkit is a collection of methods for community engagement produced as the first outcome of the Eramus+ COMENSI project
readTHE B-MINCOME PROJECT JOURNAL N°3
In this 3rd Journal for UIA Laura Colini looks in detail at different ongoing projects related to the Active Policy 1 “Neighbourhood-based training and jobs for all”. During her visit she met several citizens involved in the different training activities as well as trainers and social workers from the NGOs active in this strand of […]
readFighting homelessness: the role of cities
Laura Colini, in her role as URBACT programme expert gives an overview of the Policy LAB and URBACT Knowledge Hub initiative’s collaboration with FEANTSA and the Mairie de Paris, following their December 2018 gathering to share information, exchange local practices and launch collaboration among small, medium and large administrations in Europe to combat homelessness. Inaccessible, […]
readRigenerazione urbana e processi partecipativi
Rigenerazione urbana e processi partecipativi. Interview (in Italian) to Lorenzo Tripodi by Bertram Niessen at conference organised by Che Fare in Mantua within the FattiCult Festival, October 2018.
readTHE B-MINCOME PROJECT JOURNAL N°2
The second Journal reports on the advancements of B-MINCOME until February 2018 and focuses on the challenge of B-MINCOME information, communication and selection process of beneficiaries. This process took place over a period of circa six months, involving the BMincome Team of the Municipality of Barcelona, IVALUA and other local stakeholders. Access here the UIA […]
readThe B-MINCOME Project Journal N°1
The first of a series of journals following the B-MINCOME implementation process. The project is based on the city's decision to implement a guaranteed minimum income (GMI) to supplement income in the most deprived and poor areas of Barcelona.
readLearning from Context
Booklet recording and reflecting on the presentations and workshops at the conference Learning from Context organised by Tesserae in the frame of the EULER project
readSwitch On Mehringplatz
Final publication of the training program developed in Berlin by Tesserae within the EULER transnational exchange project
readPrivatization, Financialization and State Restructuring in Eastern Germany: The case of Am Südpark
Article written by Matthias Bernt, Laura Colini and Daniel Förste and published in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
readIntergenerational Approach to Urban Regeneration
Baseline study for the URBACT implementation Network ReGeneration
readExercises in Urban Reconnaissance
A short piece on Exercises in Urban Reconnaissance published in Lo Squaderno n. 39.
readURBAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE EU
50 projects supported by the European Regional Development Fund during the 2007-13 period.
readSustainable Urban Development – Art. 8
A study on sustainable integrated urban development in the cohesion policy commissioned by the EC DG Regio in 2010
readInter-Municipal Cooperation in Europe
Case studies on Inter-Municipal cooperation in Europe.
readAgainst Divided Cities
Paper for the URBACT capitalization project concerning spatial and social segregation in urban areas.
readTowards a Vertical Urbanism
Lorenzo Tripodi "Towards a Vertical Urbanism. Space of Exposure as a New Paradigm for Public Space", chapter in A.M. Brighenti (ed.) The Wall and the City. Trento: Professionaldreamers, 2009.
readMuseumization and Transformation in Florence
Chapter by Laura Colini, Anna Lisa Pecoriello, Lorenzo Tripodi and Iacopo Zetti, published in Porter, L. and Shaw, K. (2008) Whose Urban Renaissance? An international comparison of urban regeneration strategies, London: Routledge
readCartografia Resistente
Paper by Lorenzo Tripodi presented the Media-City conference, Bauhaus University – Weimar, January 2008 and published in Frank Eckardt et al. (eds.), MEDIACITY: Situations, Practices and Encounters. Berlin: Frank & Timme. 2008
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