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 […]
Although we haven’t had any formal collaboration, since Lorenzo Romito and Francesco Careri co-founded the Stalker collective and Osservatorio Nomade in the early 90’s our paths have been often crossing, especially through the research of ogino:knauss, which developed in parallel during the same years and within similar cultural backgrounds and political agendas. Nomadic art practices, […]
On January 24th we had the pleasure of visiting the city of Lucca, one of the pilot cities of the IN-HABIT project. In this project Tesserae leads the work dedicated to the engagement of local stakeholders in the four local Private Public People Partnerships, and to support the cities in the co-design of the integrated solutions. In […]
Tesserae stands in solidarity and strongly supports the WemGehörtDerLaskerkiez? (Who owns Laskerkiez?) initiative and its campaign for the preservation of the Laskerkiez neighbourhood and the Zukunft am Ostkreuz cultural centre. Laskerkiez is a lively and colourful neighbourhood located in Berlin Friedrichshain between Ostkreuz and the Spree and is home to several important solidarity and self-governing organisations, including […]
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 […]
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 […]
Since the 21st of October, the MOVING CITIES platform is online. The platform consists of mapping local practices of cities who defined themselves “solidarity cities” towards migrants and refugees. Moving Cities website was born in the frame of a civil society initiative called Palermo Charter Platform created around the Charter for freedom of movement promoted […]
On November 29th, 2021, URBACT, together with EUROCITIES, organised the Culture and Social Inclusion in Cities webinar, bringing together cities and European networks and programmes to discuss and promote inclusive approaches to cultural policies in cities. The webinar showcased the results of the work carried out by URBACT and EUROCITIES within the framework of the […]
Leading with an invitation to “Pause, Reflect, Engage!”, the Collaborative Futures Academy took place online from the 22nd to the 26th of November. Organised by the University of Cambridge, Wellcome Connecting Science, and the Berlin School of Public Engagement and Open Science, this series of seminars and discussions were intended to spark off a collective reflection […]
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 […]