As part of our engagement in the Horizon 2020 funded Inclusive Health and Well-being in Small and Medium Sized Cities (IN-HABIT) project, we recently completed the delivery of the IN-HABIT Glossary. This glossary is the first section of the toolkit for stakeholder engagement with gender, diversity, equity and inclusion being developed by the project, which will be used […]
The upcoming Cities for a Welcoming Europe Conference will take place on 25-26 June 2021. The event, which is co-organised by Tesserae, is an initiative of the From the Sea to the City consortium and will be the first step in a larger process of creating a network of cities and civil groups with the goal of helping […]
English below 17.Juni 2021 – “Collaborative Atlases for Heritage and the Commons” – Multiplikator:innen Event zum Trainingsprogramm für partizipative Methoden in Berlin-Schöneberg Sie, als Akteur:innen in der Stadtentwicklung, Stadtforschung und Stadtteilarbeit, möchten wir herzlich einladen zu unserem Multiplikator:innen Event für die Ergebnisse aus unserem Trainingsprogramm für partizipative Methoden zur Nachbarschaftsentwicklung in Berlin-Schöneberg. Es werden Methoden zur […]
On May 27th 2021 from 14.00-15.30, the Senate Department for Culture and Europe of the city of Berlin and the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations are hosting a series of online discussions on the topic of public libraries as lighthouses for education, exchange, inspiration and citizen engagement in European cities, with particular focus on the question of how […]
The city of Florence will be hosting the sixth edition of its Festival of Social Literature over the last weekend of May 2021. Visitors can expect four days of talks, debates, poetry, theatre and music, alongside stands and presentations from independent publishers, DIY book and magazine producers, self-managed bookstores and artists’ collectives. On May 27th […]
The Cities Engaging in the Right to Housing project has launched a new website to promote exchanges between cities and connections with strategic players at national and EU levels on the theme of housing rights. The website also provides access to the project’s research and case studies, including information on collaborative and non-market oriented housing schemes, community land […]
The final event of URBACT’s Civic eState project will take place online from May 26th to 28th 2021. The virtual conference aims to showcase the impact of Civic Estate’s activities and to promote its results at a European and global level, fostering dialogue with experts, academics and elected representatives. Key themes of the event will include a spotlight on the role […]
English Version Below WAS? Wir möchten eine Gruppe von Bewohner*innen in den Dialog zu bringen, die in der selben Nachbarschaft wohnen, aber unterschiedliche Erfahrungen mitbringen. Durch persönliche und kollektive Erinnerungen bietet dieses Projekt die Möglichkeit, Nachbarn*innen besser kennen zu lernen und durch sie Neues zu entdecken. WARUM? Während unseres letzten Projekts in Hohenschönhausen zum Thema […]
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 […]
Florence, Italy: The iconic Venere Biomeccanica (Biomechanical Venus) sculpture is under threat of being removed as part of a larger regeneration project in the city. The 5-meter tall anthropomorphic statue is located in a former textile machine factory complex in the Rifredi neighbourhood of Florence. The sculpture was built by a group of activist artists who […]