During August 2019 Laura helped out Adam Holt, volunteer of Internet-in-a-Box to document his work as system-manager in remote schools in Oaxaca and Chiapas. Internet in a box goal ist to the “World’s Free Knowledge (Wikipedia, Khan Academy, OpenStreetMap, E-Books and many others) to those who are offline — e.g. anybody nearby with an old smartphone, tablet or laptop”. We worked with teachers and children in the schools of Monte Alban in Oaxaca, and the schools of Techpatan, and Chamula.
September 2021 marked completion of the first year of the INclusive Health And wellBeing In small and medium-size ciTies project, also known more simply as INHABIT. The project, which is part of the EU’s Horizon 2020 program and is planned to last five years in total, moved into a new phase in October, initiating activities […]
Together with our partners from Palermo, Marseille, Sofia and Seville at the end of November 2022 we met in for the EducCity training program. In Palermo we have gathered a group of neighbourhood facilitators for a week of exchange and reflection around our experiences of accompanying and supporting processes of social engagement, co-creation and co-management of commons. […]
On September 7th our Senior Researcher Laura Colini, together with Yuri Kazepov, AbdouMaliq Simone and Celine d’Cruz participated to the online panel Climate Change and Social Housing organised by Iba Research Lab. The panel concentrated on bottom-up planning processes and self-organisation in climate adaptation and mitigation strategies, discussing the way inhabitants are involved, resources are shared and […]