urban reconnaissance

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.

cinema · community · educity · film · learning · neighbourhood · urban reconnaissance

EDU-CITY FINAL REMARKS

After more than a year of intensive work, we are officially concluding the Edu-City project and would like to share some interesting results and reflections with you. EDU-CITY CONFERENCE In late January, the Edu-City Conference took place at the Amerika Gedenk Bibliothek under the theme “The Neighborhood as a Learning Environment.” We had the pleasure […]

handbook · urban education · urban exploration · urban reconnaissance · urbex · youths

Urbex Handbook

This handbook is the first project resulting of the Erasmus+ UrbEX. It aims at outlining a methodology of urban exploration as a means of engagement for young people in vulnerable contexts.

gaming · social inclusion · toolkit · tools · training · urban education · urban reconnaissance · urbex · youths

ITINERANTS

This tool was developed during the URBEX training program on Urban exploration as a tool for the engagement of youths at risk of exclusion. It describes a number of approaches and methods to guide and inspire youth workers that aim to explore their neighbourhoods and socio-spatial contexts with the company of a youth group.

collaborative mapping · neighbourhood atlas · OpenCCCP · urban exploration · urban reconnaissance · workshop

Collaborative Atlas 1st meeting – URLab

As part of the OpenCCCP Erasmus+ program, that deals with open practices of knowledge transfer, the first local training lab with the title “Collaborative Atlases for Heritage and the Commons“ took place in our office and the area around in Berlin-Schöneberg. On 19th and 25th of September Fourteen people attended two workshops constituting the first module dedicated to Urban Reconnaissance. The […]

activism · cocreation · collaborative mapping · right to the city · tools · urban development · urban reconnaissance · workshop

Mapping Creativity and Resistance in Kreuzberg

(In progress report) Between November 11th and 25th we have run the “Who Owns Kreuzberg” workshop at the FXHB Museum. This Urban Reconnaissance laboratory involved a group of activists and researchers in “mapping creativity and resistance” in Kreuzberg, with the aim to provide an insight into the complexities of urban transformations in the city and to […]

activism · article · cocreation · community museum · Horizon · media activism · urban reconnaissance · urban studies · workshop

WHO OWNS KREUZBERG?

Mapping spaces of creativity and resistance An Urban Reconnaissance workshop with ogino:knauss Coordinated by Tesserae, Berlin In November 2019, media artists ogino:knauss and urban research practitioners Tesserae will lead ‘Who Owns Kreuzberg’, a workshop aimed at activists, artists and engaged citizens in Berlin exploring the complexities of urban transformations in the city and tools for […]

cocreation · Mexico · urban reconnaissance · workshop

Urban Reconnaissance Workshop at UNAM, Mexico City

November 7-8 2018 we coordinated an URLab at the Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, UNAM, in Mexico City. It was organised in the framework of the Cocreation exchange program, and involved a large number of participants, mostly postgraduate students and professors from different faculties and disciplines. The workshop developed in two days, divided in two […]

festival · Hamburg · migration · solidarity · urban reconnaissance · workshop

Solipolis – New Hamburg

Tesserae is taking part to the Solipolis festival in Veddel, Hamburg, dedicated to multicultural dialogue and neighbourhood mobilization. Saturday 15 September Laura talked at the opening session about solidarity cities and migration in Europe. Saturday the 22nd Lorenzo and Daniele will coordinate an urban reconnaissance workshop. A walk in the neighbourhood becomes an opportunity to reflect […]

Milano · urban exploration · urban reconnaissance · workshop

Milano Isola – URLab at Attractive Cities summer school

During the 2nd week of the Attractive Cities summer school held at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Jim Macneil organised an Urban Reconnaissance workshop with Chiara Vitrano (PhD, GSSI) and the students. They chose the neighbourhoods Isola and Porta Garibaldi as areas of exploration, given the massive urban projects and transformations that have been taking place over the […]

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