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[ENGLISH VERSION BELOW] Kultur gegen Vielfalt und Inklusion – Kürzungen in der Berliner Kulturszene Liebe Berlin, ich habe dich geliebt und liebe dich noch immer aus tiefstem Herzen.Wie jede Liebe begann auch unsere mit einem Funken und einem Versprechen.Dem Versprechen, solidarisch und ungehorsam … Read more
Oasis Kick-off in Warsaw
Oasis is a new Creative Europe project led by the Other Space Foundation (Warsaw) with the participation of Tesserae providing participatory methodologies and research capacity. The project connects 14 European partners, and aims at realising 13 artists residence programs co-designed with local society.
New website & social media!
We are delighted to finally unveil our new online interface! We’ve been quietly working on reorganising our website in recent months, highlighting its role as an archive of what we produce rather than a promotional tool.
Projects
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EduCity
The Erasmus+ project Edu-City aims at promoting field educational experiences with a specific attention at deprived urban contexts where fragile adults are excluded from opportunities of inclusion, participation, learning and local resources valorisation. Tesserae contributes by coordinating the production of the handbook, providing specific training on participative methodologies, testing the the application of the method in the local lab in Berlin and organising ther final international conference.
UrbEX
UrbEX is an Erasmus plus project aimed at developing urban exploration as tool to engage and empower youths at risk of exclusion. Tesserae is lead partner and coordinator in the project, managing the partnership between five organisations in five different EU countries. We are delivering the URBEX handbook of Urban Exploration and testing the handbook’s methodologies in Berlin within local labs. Finally in September 2023 we will also be organising the project’s final international conference.
IN-HABIT
IN-HABIT is an Horizon 2020 project led by the University of Cordoba. The overall objective of IN-HABIT is to foster Inclusive Health and Wellbeing in peripheral small and medium size cities by means of mobilizing resources around a core topic and galvanize them through solutions that integrate cultural, digital, nature-based and social innovations applied to the co-design, co-development and co-management of urban public spaces. Tesserae has a core role in the project, leading WP5 dedicated to the engagement of citizens and stakeholders all along the five years project. We are in charge of delivering a methodological toolkit for civic engagement (Stakeholders Engagement with Gender and Diversity perspective Toolkit), training the local community activators of the four cities and supporting their PPPPs, steering the co-production of four Inclusive Transition Pathways, and finally reporting and disseminating the experience.
Places
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Cecco Rivolta
This collective house in Via Dazzi, Firenze, on the slopes up to Rifredi, is a historical experience of a student squat that has been essential for various Florentine urban movement initiatives.
DRAGONER AREAL
Dragoner Areal is a key area in the heart of Kreuzberg, the nucleus of a Regeneration area (Sanierungsgebiet Rathausblock) that was planned to be sold to private investors and has been the object of a mobilisation of citizens against the privatisation.
Die Lause
The former glass factory located in Lausitzer Straße 10/11 in Berlin-Kreutzberg is a domestic community that best embodies the prototype of the so-called “Berlin mix”, whereby available spaces are equally distributed to allow for both their residential and commercial use.
