Alamar is a new city built in the 1970s in the outskirts of La Habana, Cuba, mostly with rudimental prefabricated technologies inherited from the soviets. It has been put in place through self-construction teams of 32 citizens employed in the so called microbrigadas: a system affecting not only the way the physical environment has been produced, but also the social texture formed in the process.
THE CASA DEL QUARTIERE The Casa del Quartiere San Salvario is meant to be a “neighbourhood house”: a community hub where to design, develop and run social and cultural activities, where exchange and connections between the activities, the actors and the local citizen community are promoted and facilitated. The San Salvario community hub grew gradually by […]
The Āgenskalns Market is case of regeneration of an old market structure in Riga done through a Private Public People Partnership. The building has been leased to a local company active in the neighbourhood, and the INHABIT Horizon 2020 provided additional resources to expand the social dimension of the project. Tesserae has trained the Local Community Activators and supported the participatory aspects and the engagement of stakeholders.