participation

art residencies · cultural centers · cultural regeneration · OASIS · participation · urban reconnaissance · workshop

Oasis Reconnaissance

In February 2025 we began the first round of workshops promoted by the OASIS project to support the participatory design of 13 cultural centres and their artist residence programs. Tesserae is facilitating the exploration of the territories surrounding the centres, applying the urban reconnaissance methodology to the aim of fostering an holistic understanding of the neighbourhoods and the impacts that the project can bring on them.

Bolzano · cultural regeneration · culture · participation

Bolzanism days

What to do when doing is no longer enough? Can ephemeral cultural actions evolve into permanent processes that create new horizons and forms of collaboration between operators, citizens and institutions? To discuss such questions, on Saturday 14 September Lorenzo Tripodi will join Bertram Niessen, scientific director cheFare agency (Milan), Nasrin Mohiti Asli architect, co-founder of […]

cocreation · codesign · coproduction · engagement · journal · losquaderno · methodologies · participation · tools

Loops of Change

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.

collaborative learning · education · learning · local community · methodologies · participation · social engagement · social inclusion · tools · urban exploration · urbex · urbexplorers · youths

UrbEXplorers conference report

Urbexplorers was the final multiplier event of the Erasmus project UrbEX. The multidisciplinary conference organized by Tesserae promoted urban exploration as a methodology for empowering youths, overcoming their vulnerabilities, and encouraging their participation in communal life. We engaged youth workers, scholars, activists, and policymakers in a conversation about the potential of neighborhoods as learning spaces. […]

cocreation · commons · educity · participation · participatory process · social engagement · urban education

EDUCITY Training Scheme

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.

Berlin · codesign · housing · kreuzberg · participation · urban regeneration

DRAGONER AREAL

Dragoner Areal is a key area in the heart of Kreuzberg, the nucleus of a Regeneration area (Sanierungsgebiet Rathausblock) that was planned to be sold to private investors and has been the object of a mobilisation of citizens against the privatisation.

dialogues · environment · participation · sustainability

Giovanni Allegretti

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.

INHABIT · local community · nitra · participation · participatory process · site-visit

Site visit to Nitra

Nitra, IN-HABIT site visit May 2022 On May 19th and 20th, our team finished the round of site-visits of the cities participating in the IN-HABIT project. The last destination was Nitra, in Slovakia, and similarly to the other visits, it proved to be a key moment to get a deeper understanding of the territory, its […]

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