The issue 68 of LoSquaderno dedicated to the theme “Loop” includes a short piece by Lorenzo Tripodi. The paper examines participatory processes as “loops of cognitive loops” and presents Tesserae’s Frame4Change as a recursive action system similar to a music composition approach.
Edu-City training scheme supports the training of new and strongly required hybrid professional figures acting as neighborhood facilitators for processes of social engagement, co-creation and management of commons.
This handbook is a result of the Erasmus plus project EduCity. It is directed at practitioners, educators, civil servants and engaged citizens who are active in processes of social inclusion and community empowerment in urban contexts. It aims at providing ideas and tools to exploit the neighbourhood as an active site for mutual learning, innovation and capacity building.
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 […]
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. […]
The Treasure Island tool was designed during the UrbEX project to facilitate the process of co-designing an urban exploration activity with young participants. Its simple structure in 9 steps can be applied to streamlining projects with unskilled beneficiaries in a simple and effective way.
Storylabs are workshops aimed at promoting storytelling as a tool for emancipation and social engagement. They are based on a template developed by Tesserae / ogino:knauss identifying nine key elements of a narrative process.
Next 12 and 13 September will take place in Oxford the final conference of the H2020 Rise project Co-Creation. Tesserae will contribute with papers and film presentations deriving from our involvement in the project, including the case studies in the Südliche Friedrichstadt of Berlin and in Maré, Rio de Janeiro. Find here the program Download the program: Co_creation […]
Interdisciplinary Conference Oxford Brookes University 12-13 September 2022 Call for Contributions Co-Creation has become increasing popular in recent years as a concept, method and policy tool. A key factor in the rise of Co-Creation is its potential in breaking down boundaries, between different parts of the city, between different groups within cities, between different parts of […]
IN-HABIT is an Horizon 2020 project led by the University of Cordoba. The overall objective of IN-HABIT is to foster Inclusive Health and Wellbeing in peripheral small and medium size cities by means of mobilizing resources around a core topic and galvanize them through solutions that integrate cultural, digital, nature-based and social innovations applied to the co-design, co-development and co-management of urban public spaces. Tesserae has a core role in the project, leading WP5 dedicated to the engagement of citizens and stakeholders all along the five years project. We are in charge of delivering a methodological toolkit for civic engagement (Stakeholders Engagement with Gender and Diversity perspective Toolkit), training the local community activators of the four cities and supporting their PPPPs, steering the co-production of four Inclusive Transition Pathways, and finally reporting and disseminating the experience.
