We recently published a piece about the Museo Comunitario del Valle de Xico on our Recentering Periphery blog. You can find the interview we carried out with the community museum’s director, Genaro Amaro, here. We are saddened to hear that this amazing grassroots cultural initiative has been closed and is under threat of eviction from the Municipality […]
From January 28 to February 2 took place in Palermo the first week of training of the Erasmus plus project URBEX. The intense week was attended by 25 professionals from five cities and was dedicated to develop a common methodology to employ urban exploration as an educational tool for youth at risk of exclusion. Good practices and […]
On December 13th and 14th a transnational meeting of the URBACT implementation network URBinclusion took place in Napoli. The focus of the knowledge exchange between nine European cities was on innovative actions for the integration of populations with migrant backgrounds in the Porta Capuana neighbourhood and the coordination of local actors. We were presented the activities of the URBACT […]
10-11 of December 2018 will take place in Paris the Policy Lab “Fighting Homelessness: the role of cities”, co-organised by URBACT with FEANTSA (European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless). Laura Colini will coordinate the session in her role as URBACT program, expert. Over 4 million people are affected by homelessness each year in Europe, […]
On November 27 2018, in Brussels at MCE Conference and Business Centre, Laura Colini attended the Final Workshop of Data Challenge on Integration of Migrants in Cities facilitating the thematic roundtable ” Evidence on segregation and diversity for policies” in her role as program expert for URBACT. The Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography (KCMD) has been piloting the use of […]
22-23 November 2018 Laura Colini participates to the conference “Migration flows and integration policies: data evidence and best practices in the EU” organised by Interact and ESPON, presenting URBACT and the Arrival City network experience. The Conference explores the main challenges and identify good policy responses and the best practices for successful integration of refugees into […]
16-17 November 2018 we kicked-off the new Erasmus Plus project COmmunity ENgagement for Social Inclusion (COMENSI) meeting in Palermo, in the Capo neighbourhood, at the seat of the Lead partner of the project Bond of Union. The project aims at developing tools and strategies to increase engagement and facilitate pro-active participation to help marginalised adults […]
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 […]
You are welcome to send your research abstract to the conference (Im)possible Complicities: co-production, co-creation, cooptation organised by Tesserae next 23-24 May 2019 in Berlin. We welcome papers and artworks which address questions regarding: • The meaning of co-creation, co-production, co-optation • Co-creation and community engagement for what and for whom • The role of […]
We take part to the seminar organised by Milano Bicocca University and Che Fare next November 11. As we are all very well aware, technology is changing the way we live our lives, from smart phones to social media, they are having positive and negative impacts on cities, space and people. On the one hand, […]