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.
Can we learn from the everyday experiences of people struggling to survive in big cities as well as from the ways urban movements shape communities of struggle? Is there an inherent potentiality for emancipatory commoning in struggles for the right to the city? And how this relate with the concept of commonality as in Elias […]
City networks and migration in times of crisis: municipal mobilisation since 2015 to the Ukraine war On Tuesday May 24 at 21:00 CET, for the sixth episode of Tesserae Dialogues we will meet Thomas Lacroix, research fellow at CNRS (Paris, FR)& Filippo Furri, Migreurop Association, (Paris, FR) and MiMetis (Siena, IT). Topic of this online […]
Talking Hands. Re-reading maps as aesthetic practices in urban research Tuesday March 12 for the fifth episode of the Tesserae Dialogues we will meet the Berlin based collective MetroZones whose activities and approaches we often crossed during the years. Over the past years, recording processes have become increasingly important for metroZones‘ research and artistic practice. While they […]
On Tuesday March 15th the fourth edition of the Tesserae Dialogues series has seen Laura and Lorenzo discussing how gender affects urban life and policy with professor Marina Della Giusta . Marina is Professor of Economics at the University of Reading, IZA fellow and Visiting Professor at the University of Turin. She joined the University of Reading in 2001 and […]
Although we haven’t had any formal collaboration, since Lorenzo Romito and Francesco Careri co-founded the Stalker collective and Osservatorio Nomade in the early 90’s our paths have been often crossing, especially through the research of ogino:knauss, which developed in parallel during the same years and within similar cultural backgrounds and political agendas. Nomadic art practices, […]
On January 25th at 21.00 CET our the second event of Tesserae Dialogues went live online with guest Iván Tosics. Co founder of the Metropolitan Research Institute (MRI), Budapest, Ivan is a sociologist (Ph.D.) with long experience in urban sociology, strategic development, housing policy, and EU regional policy issues. Since 2011 he serves as Programme Expert at the URBACT […]
On Tuesday December 14th at 20:00 CET the first in our series of Tesserae Dialogues will go live online. We are excited to be opening the series with guest Michael Edwards, professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL and a fellow member of the International Network of Urban Research and Action. Michael has been a great inspiration for us with his […]
Ten years of Tesserae in ten conversations (+1) To celebrate ten years of Tesserae, and to look forward into the next decade of our work, we are launching the ‘Tesserae Dialogues’ web series. Starting in December 2021, Tesserae will host a series of monthly online conversations with ten activists, researchers and policy experts who have […]
