The former glass factory located in Lausitzer Straße 10/11 in Berlin-Kreutzberg is a domestic community that best embodies the prototype of the so-called “Berlin mix”, whereby available spaces are equally distributed to allow for both their residential and commercial use.
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 […]
Versione italiana sotto May 26-28 saw the closing event of URBACT’s Civic e-State project and with it the launch of a new website for interconnecting community development projects and the finalization of an accompanying study, commissioned by the project, and delivered by Tesserae’s Lorenzo Tripodi. The object of the study was to assess the practice of “autorecupero and autocostruzione” (community-led […]
The final event of URBACT’s Civic eState project will take place online from May 26th to 28th 2021. The virtual conference aims to showcase the impact of Civic Estate’s activities and to promote its results at a European and global level, fostering dialogue with experts, academics and elected representatives. Key themes of the event will include a spotlight on the role […]
Recruited as ad hoc expert for the URBACT Civic E-State project, Tesserae senior researcher Lorenzo Tripodi was commissioned to lead a study on the practices of community-led self construction and renovation of buildings (“autorecupero and autocostruzione” ), as practiced in recent decades in Italy. The consequent report presenting the results of this study is published here.
Maré (or Complexo da Maré), in the northern periphery of Rio de Janeiro, is a complex of several favelas with 130.000 inhabitants stacked on 10 sq.km. The Museu da Maré was created by popular initiative to reclaim and de-stigmatise the identity of the neighbourhood. Tesserae researchers had the chance to visit the place and get in contact with the promoters thanks to the CoCreation project.
