Among the final deliveries of the URBEX project, the URBEX Toolkit – “Discover your city with fun” presents a set of methods and exercises to employ urban exploration as a way to engage youths in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The outcome of two training weeks and five local laboratories testing the methodologies on the field is available […]
After due to technical reasons at the hosting venue we had to postpone the event planned in September, the new dates for Who Owns Kreuzberg: mapping spaces of creativity and resistance are established. The workshop will take place at the FXHB Museum on November 11, 18 and 25 at 2pm. Interested in taking part? Please fill the registration form online. Nachdem wir aus technischen […]
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 […]
During August 2019 Laura helped out Adam Holt, volunteer of Internet-in-a-Box to document his work as system-manager in remote schools in Oaxaca and Chiapas. Internet in a box goal ist to the “World’s Free Knowledge (Wikipedia, Khan Academy, OpenStreetMap, E-Books and many others) to those who are offline — e.g. anybody nearby with an old smartphone, […]
From August to September 2019, in the frame of the Co-creation EU H2020 project, Laura Colini did her secondment at UNAM University of Mexico City. During five weeks she lectured at the department of Social Studies, did field work for the case study about housing rights in CDMX, volunteered for documenting Internet in a Box project with […]
On July 30-31 we met in London at the University College with the partners of the URBEX ErasmusPlus project. We discussed the outcomes of the laboratories of urban exploration that took place in five neighbourhoods in Palermo, Ljubljana, Albacete, London and Berlin. In Mehringplatz Tesserae collaborated with the youths of KMA Antenne in drafting the H-Town tour, an itinerary […]
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 […]
In August 2019 the URBACT Implementation Network URBinclusion closed its activities.Tesserae contributed with the Lead Expert Lorenzo Tripodi in delivering the final outcomes of this network of cities dedicated to combating poverty in deprived urban areas. URBinclusion was aimed at the co-creation of new solutions to reduce poverty in deprived urban areas, focusing on some key challenges to be tackled […]
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 […]
