During the 2nd week of the Attractive Cities summer school held at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Jim Macneil organised an Urban Reconnaissance workshop with Chiara Vitrano (PhD, GSSI) and the students. They chose the neighbourhoods Isola and Porta Garibaldi as areas of exploration, given the massive urban projects and transformations that have been taking place over the past decade.
You find an account of the workshop here on the Urban reconnaissance blog
The long-awaited new version of the Urban Reconnaissance platform is live on internet. As the consequence of an intense workshop and exploration activity done during last couple of years, the hypertext has been almost totally rewritten with a new index and several new definitions. Improvements were made in the user interface, and more are in the go. […]
On July 30-31 we met in London at the University College with the partners of the URBEX ErasmusPlus project. We discussed the outcomes of the laboratories of urban exploration that took place in five neighbourhoods in Palermo, Ljubljana, Albacete, London and Berlin. In Mehringplatz Tesserae collaborated with the youths of KMA Antenne in drafting the H-Town tour, an itinerary […]
This film narrates the stories of a group of arab women living in the area of Mehringplatz. Between anecdotes, everyday activities, joyful encounters and reflections of the past and the future, these women open up to the camera, to each other and to the world