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
In June, the Fundaciòn Hogares welcomed our Senior Researcher Lorenzo Tripodi to contribute to the launch of a participatory process for a new post-hurricane recovery and resilience plan for the Alto Progreso and Coloso districts in Acapulco, Mexico.
On Tuesday October 11 at 9 pm (CET) the eighth Tesserae Dialogues will propose Laura and Lorenzo in conversation with old friend and colleague Giovanni Allegretti. With him we will discuss the challenges posed to participation and deliberation by environmental and ecological policies.
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, […]