English Version Below WAS? Wir möchten eine Gruppe von Bewohner*innen in den Dialog zu bringen, die in der selben Nachbarschaft wohnen, aber unterschiedliche Erfahrungen mitbringen. Durch persönliche und kollektive Erinnerungen bietet dieses Projekt die Möglichkeit, Nachbarn*innen besser kennen zu lernen und durch sie Neues zu entdecken. WARUM? Während unseres letzten Projekts in Hohenschönhausen zum Thema […]
Thursday October 3rd Tesserae’s founders Laura Colini and Lorenzo Tripodi will take part in the conference Differenze in Comune in Firenze. The event organised by the CAT cooperative is dedicated to imagining and designing the inclusive city. Laura will contribute with a presentation on the housing question in Europe: issues, public policies and social struggles. She will also […]
The first training week of the program took place on June 24-29 in Palermo involving 25 social workers and project managers from the five partner cities of this ErasmusPlus project. We presented the COMENSI toolkit for Community Engagement and discussed its application in five neighbourhoods in London, Ljubljana, Lisbon, Palermo and Berlin. Watch on Youtube the […]
The COMENSI toolkit is a collection of tools, methods and practices specifically designed and selected to improve the engagement of urban communities. It is written to support adult education providers, public administrators, community managers and every professional interested in activating participatory processes of community engagement in challenging urban settings.
16-17 November 2018 we kicked-off the new Erasmus Plus project COmmunity ENgagement for Social Inclusion (COMENSI) meeting in Palermo, in the Capo neighbourhood, at the seat of the Lead partner of the project Bond of Union. The project aims at developing tools and strategies to increase engagement and facilitate pro-active participation to help marginalised adults […]
You are welcome to send your research abstract to the conference (Im)possible Complicities: co-production, co-creation, cooptation organised by Tesserae next 23-24 May 2019 in Berlin. We welcome papers and artworks which address questions regarding: • The meaning of co-creation, co-production, co-optation • Co-creation and community engagement for what and for whom • The role of […]
Concluding a one month secondment in Oxford in the frame of the Marie Curie RISE Cocreation project, on June 21-22 Lorenzo coordinated in collaboration with Sue Brownill and Ben Spencer a workshop at Brookes University introducing Tesserae’s toolset of participative methodologies to the researchers of the hosting Unversity. Following the exchange initiated in the workshop in Bath we examined the possible application […]
24th May 2018, University of Bath, 6E 2.1 Event aimed at professionals who work with different audiences and seek to use art as a means to co-produce shared understanding and knowledge about communities with those living in them. It seeks to familiarise practitioners with ‘co-creation’ methodologies and is particularly suitable for community researchers, museum professionals, […]
Public conversation with Kathrin Wildner, Christian Hanussek and Erwin Riedmann of metroZones. The next public conversation of the Switch On Mehringplatz program presents the manifold experience of the metroZones collective in urban research, art and education. metroZones will present some of their recent projects on urban peripheries as „Hellersdorfer Tapete“ and „metroZapp“ on Moritzplatz, […]