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.
After more than a year of intensive work, we are officially concluding the Edu-City project and would like to share some interesting results and reflections with you. EDU-CITY CONFERENCE In late January, the Edu-City Conference took place at the Amerika Gedenk Bibliothek under the theme “The Neighborhood as a Learning Environment.” We had the pleasure […]
EduCity Conference ** call for papers DEADLINE EXTENDED to 15 November!** The neighbourhood as a learning environment Berlin, 25-26 January 2024, Amerikagedenk Bibliothek. The Edu-City conference looks at the neighbourhood dimension and the potential of neighbourhoods as spaces for social engagement. Neighbourhoods are complex social ecosystems entrenching multiple relations of human life among individuals and […]
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.
In May 2023 our collaborator Luis Miguel Benavides traveled to Palermo to carry on a jobshadowing residence in the frame of the EduCity project. He spent two weeks collaborating at the local activities run by our partners of Bond of Union, exchanging ideas and methods and providing an external feedback to their specific community issues. Find here his engagement diary.
The 3rd UPPER policy conference, themed on Nature-Based Solutions for Sustainable Urban Policy and Social Inclusion, was held on 24-25 September 2021 in Latina & online. Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) are at the heart of the innovations imagined by the UPPER project to co-design Latina’s public green spaces with citizens in order to improve environmental […]
Our new project in the Berlin district of Hohenschönhausen “Zeig mir dein Hohenschönhausen: Aus Erinnerungen Zukunft bauen” (Show me your Hohenschönhausen: Building a future from past memories) has been awarded funding and we are looking forward to starting it this spring! During our community history project in Hohenschönhausen last year we noticed the significant impact of the GDR’s […]
A training program on collaborative mapping and digital storytelling for participatory practice.
WHERE AND WHEN? Mildmay, Islington, London, UK. From 2018. Involvement in the Comensi project. WHAT’S GOING ON? Mildmay has recently become a preferential target for real estate investment, and it has seen a rapid increase in the number of affluent peope decidig to move in the ward. The new inbalance between housing supply and demand has broght […]
The COMENSI Newsletter is out! Here you find about the objective, activities and intellectual outputs of the Community Engagement for Social Inclusion project and its five local labs. Read / download here the COMENSI newsletter
