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 […]
Last year we contributed to the cycle of conference organised by our partners of the Criticity collective in Florence. We are happy to present now the deriving publication. Futuri Urbani is a project that began over a year ago and is now presented in the form of a book series. It is a process of critical reflection […]
Talking Hands. Re-reading maps as aesthetic practices in urban research Tuesday March 12 for the fifth episode of the Tesserae Dialogues we will meet the Berlin based collective MetroZones whose activities and approaches we often crossed during the years. Over the past years, recording processes have become increasingly important for metroZones‘ research and artistic practice. While they […]
On Tuesday March 15th the fourth edition of the Tesserae Dialogues series has seen Laura and Lorenzo discussing how gender affects urban life and policy with professor Marina Della Giusta . Marina is Professor of Economics at the University of Reading, IZA fellow and Visiting Professor at the University of Turin. She joined the University of Reading in 2001 and […]
To celebrate ten years of Tesserae, and to look forward into the next decade of our work, we launched the “Tesserae Dialogues”. From December 2021, Tesserae hosted a series of monthly online conversations with activists, researchers and policy experts who have served as essential reference points for our work. Together, we discussed the state of international urban policies and politics exploring some projects, ideas and works that have marked Tesserae’s ten year journey.
On Tuesday December 14th at 20:00 CET the first in our series of Tesserae Dialogues will go live online. We are excited to be opening the series with guest Michael Edwards, professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL and a fellow member of the International Network of Urban Research and Action. Michael has been a great inspiration for us with his […]
Ten years of Tesserae in ten conversations (+1) To celebrate ten years of Tesserae, and to look forward into the next decade of our work, we are launching the ‘Tesserae Dialogues’ web series. Starting in December 2021, Tesserae will host a series of monthly online conversations with ten activists, researchers and policy experts who have […]
PLOTTING THE URBAN BODY is an interdisciplinary project by artist Maria Pecchioli and Italy’s Radio Papesse investigating urban space as an organic body. It examines the energies of the city and its transformations through the lens of Taoist cosmogony, traditional Chinese medicine and the I Ching Book of Changes. The project’s research in the Italian city of Florence has produced a series of […]
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 […]
On August 5-9 Laura took part to the Summer Institute on Methodologies for Housing Justice at UCLA in Los Angeles, US. The event was aimed at bringing together movement-based and university-based scholars to address key needs and gaps in housing and planning research. A part of the Housing Justice in #UnequalCities Network, which is housed […]
