Nature-based solutions are gaining prominence in urban sustainability discourses, especially in climate adaptation, in efforts to increase resilience, and as a means of promoting a range of social, environmental, and economic benefits.
Located in the south-eastern part of the city of Latina, Piazza Ilaria Alpi is one of the place identified by the UPPER UIA project in Latina as a demonstration site for the planting of new plant species to counteract the increase in temperature, linked to the heat island effect. Tesserae was responsible for the co-design activitiies of the project.
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.
UPPER is a project financed by Urban Innovative Actions to transform misused and abandoned green and concrete areas of the urban and peri-urban space of the city of Latina (Italy) into Productive Parks (PP) devoted to research, technological development and self-production of advanced and innovative nature-based solutions to tackle environmental, socio-economic and governance challenges. Tesserae is responsible for the digital communication – website, social media and realisation of 30 UPPER Stories- and will take care of the Co-design Workshops, producing a methodological manual for these workshops and the guidelines resulting from the participative process.
