H2020 Secondment in Mexico

From August to September 2019, in the frame of the Co-creation EU H2020 project, Laura Colini did her secondment at UNAM University of Mexico City. During five weeks she lectured at the department of Social Studies, did field work for the case study about housing rights in CDMX, volunteered for documenting Internet in a Box project with Adam Holt in Chiapas schools and spoke at the International Symposium Ciudades cohesionadas: co-crear agendas urbanas incluyentes. Here she presented a paper entitled The experience of Community Centers and the right to the city, discussing the role of living archives and community museums in defying the spatial stigmatisation of disadvantaged areas.

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26 Set , 2019 - Category: news

cocreation · community museum · disadvantage · Horizon · housing · Mexico · right to the city

Site Visit to Las Palmeras, Cordoba

On April 20th and 21st, Lorenzo and Luis Miguel in representation of the team of Tesserae visited Córdoba accompanied by University of Reading, Book on a Tree and Design for Change in the frame of the IN-HABIT project. The team had the chance to full-immerse for two days into the reality of Las Palmeras, the […]

Stavros Stavridis and Andrea Mubi Brighenti

Can we learn from the everyday experiences of people struggling to survive in big cities as well as from the ways urban movements shape communities of struggle? Is there an inherent potentiality for emancipatory commoning in struggles for the right to the city? And how this relate with the concept of commonality as in Elias […]

Co-Creation Final Conference

The H2020 Rise project Cocreation ended its activity in summer 2022. After a long break due to Covid-19 that disrupted heavily our plans to go back to Latin America to work with local communities and apply some of our participative methodologies, members of the Tesserae team attended the final conference in Oxford, England. Here we presented […]