CHALLENGING (SOCIAL) HOUSING IN EUROPE
The conference CHALLENGING (SOCIAL) HOUSING IN EUROPE launches a series of events aiming to analyse and discuss various case studies of social housing in European countries and cities.
urban development
Site visit to Agenskalns, Riga
Agenskalns market Site-visit to Riga. The Historical Āgenskalns market has just reopened! On May 9th and 10th, Lorenzo and Luis Miguel from our IN-HABIT project team visited Riga to meet with the project’s other partners, including the University of Reading and Book on a Tree. The team had the chance to visit the newly reopened Āgenskalns […]
ZUKUNFT am Ostkreuz – Bike Demo
Fahrradkorso zu Pandion, International Campus und Trockland! Next Friday March 11th there will be a ‘bike demo’ against gentrification in Berlin’s Ostkreuz district, visiting some of the most critical sites of property speculation in Berlin along the way. The itinerary will connect real estate companies that have gentrified the neighbourhood to the extreme and have given the starting signal for […]
Tesserae Dialogues #2 – Iván Tosics
On January 25th at 21.00 CET our the second event of Tesserae Dialogues went live online with guest Iván Tosics. Co founder of the Metropolitan Research Institute (MRI), Budapest, Ivan is a sociologist (Ph.D.) with long experience in urban sociology, strategic development, housing policy, and EU regional policy issues. Since 2011 he serves as Programme Expert at the URBACT […]
activism · Berlin · blu · contested space · gentrification · graffiti · kreuzberg · media spree · street art · urban development
Cuvrybrache
A wasteland along the Spree river, that soon became a place of refuge for those with no place in society. Evacuated from its informal inhabitants, the area has undergone restructuring to host a complex of luxury buildings.
Grafting – UPPER policy conference on Nature Based Solutions
In italiano in fondo Conference on Nature-Based Solutions for Sustainable Urban Policy and Social Inclusion The ‘Innesti’ (Grafting) conference will take place from 24-25 September 2021 in Latina (Italy) and online, and will focus on nature-based solutions as an opportunity for sustainable urban policy and social inclusion. The event will be the third policy conference co-organised […]
Collaborative Atlas Lab Open Round – June 17
English below 17.Juni 2021 – “Collaborative Atlases for Heritage and the Commons” – Multiplikator:innen Event zum Trainingsprogramm für partizipative Methoden in Berlin-Schöneberg Sie, als Akteur:innen in der Stadtentwicklung, Stadtforschung und Stadtteilarbeit, möchten wir herzlich einladen zu unserem Multiplikator:innen Event für die Ergebnisse aus unserem Trainingsprogramm für partizipative Methoden zur Nachbarschaftsentwicklung in Berlin-Schöneberg. Es werden Methoden zur […]
Collaborative Atlas
A training program on collaborative mapping and digital storytelling for participatory practice.
UPPER Latina – Second Co-Design lab
The second co-design laboratory within the UIA project UPPER focused on the green area of via Roccagorga, adjacent to the market area. The appointment took place on February 21 at the Ettore Majorana high-school, preceded by an inspection with the citizens of the area affected by the project. The co-design process that accompanies the regeneration of the […]
Engagement Stories: the Neighbourhood Atlas of Südliche Friedrichstadt
With the fourth public meeting that took place on Thursday 18 February at Feldfünf im Metropolenhaus we closed the first phase of the Mehringplatz Anknipsen lab. After the previous meetings done at the Kiezstübe (Delimitations, places) and at the Amerika Gedenkbibliothek (memories), the topic proposed this time to the group of participants was “transformations”: how has the neighbourhood changed through […]
