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 […]
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.
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.
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. […]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
The Erasmus+ project Edu-City aims at promoting field educational experiences with a specific attention at deprived urban contexts where fragile adults are excluded from opportunities of inclusion, participation, learning and local resources valorisation. Tesserae contributes by coordinating the production of the handbook, providing specific training on participative methodologies, testing the the application of the method in the local lab in Berlin and organising ther final international conference.
