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Housing Fair Finance

Housing Fair Finance

Ready to start! @lauracolini introducing the context and aims… pic.twitter.com/zS5byp6uf9 — Tesserae (@tesseraeUSR) November 19, 2020 November 19 took place the third and last conference of Cities engaging in the right to housing , a joint capitalization project of UIA and URBACT. Laura Colini moderated the discussion questioning the role of financial actors in threatening access to housing. […]

Zeig mir dein Hohenschönhausen! 1st Workshop

Zeig mir dein Hohenschönhausen! 1st Workshop

1st Workshop of our project “Erinnerung im Wandel – Zeig mir dein Hohenschönhausen! On Friday 23rd October, the first workshop of our project “Erinnerung im Wandel – Zeig mir dein Hohenschönhausen” took place at the Kunsthaus 360° in Hohenschönhausen. A dozen participants were present for this first meeting. After exchanges in order to get to […]

Intorni. Spazi e pratiche della partecipazione

Intorni. Spazi e pratiche della partecipazione

English below Conferenza online Sabato 31 Ottobre 2020, h.17 La prima policy conference della serie promessa dal progetto UIA UPPER si interessa allo spazio della partecipazione. Gerarchie di ruoli e posizioni di potere consolidate sono scolpiti più rigidamente di quanto pensiamo nella dimensione spaziale. La rinnovata attenzione alla coproduzione di visioni e soluzioni per la […]

IN-HABIT virtual Kick-Off Meeting

IN-HABIT virtual Kick-Off Meeting

On October 13-15, 2020 the new Horizon 2020 project IN-HABIT – Inclusive health and well-being in small and medium cities has its official kick-off meeting. The program will start  Tuesday October 13 in the morning with an online public session.   OPEN SESSION PROGRAM: 9.00 – 9.30  Presentation and General Overview Mar Delgado & Mihaela Vancea (UCO) 9.30– […]

Erinnerung im Wandel – Zeig mir dein Hohenschönhausen!

Erinnerung im Wandel – Zeig mir dein Hohenschönhausen!

*english version below WAS? Am 23. Oktober findet der erste Workshop unseres Projektes “Erinnerungen im Wandel – Zeig mir dein Hohenschönhausen!“ statt. Ziel des Projektes ist es, Orte, Denkmäler, Gebäude und andere Objekte, die für die Bewohner*innen wichtig sind, hervorzuheben und zu schauen, wie diese mit Erinnerungen von Hohenschönhausen verbunden sind. Wir wollen gemeinsam schauen, […]

Collaborative Atlas 1st meeting – URLab

Collaborative Atlas 1st meeting – URLab

As part of the OpenCCCP Erasmus+ program, that deals with open practices of knowledge transfer, the first local training lab with the title “Collaborative Atlases for Heritage and the Commons“ took place in our office and the area around in Berlin-Schöneberg. On 19th and 25th of September Fourteen people attended two workshops constituting the first module dedicated to Urban Reconnaissance.  The […]

Climate Change and Social Housing

Climate Change and Social Housing

On September 7th our Senior Researcher Laura Colini, together with Yuri Kazepov, AbdouMaliq Simone and Celine d’Cruz participated to the online panel Climate Change and Social Housing organised by Iba Research Lab. The panel concentrated on bottom-up planning processes and self-organisation in climate adaptation and mitigation strategies, discussing the way inhabitants are involved, resources are shared and […]

Collaborative Atlases for Heritage and the Commons

Collaborative Atlases for Heritage and the Commons

A training program on participative methods The training is aimed at social practitioners, civil servants and active citizens interested in improving their professional capacity with innovative instruments of analysis and representation.  It will present and test a set of tools and methods aimed to facilitate participatory processes, with a focus on cultural heritage as factor […]

No one left behind

No one left behind

Friday June 26 the second  event of the series “Cities engaging in the right to housing” took place. The web conference  No one left behind  organised by by Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) and URBACT was facilitated by Laura Colini. The conference offered a preview of the 2020 Report on Housing Exclusion in Europe, co-written by FEANTSA and Fondation Abbé Pierre, […]

How can cities build alternative community-led housing models?

How can cities build alternative community-led housing models?

As part of a one-year learning activity, URBACT and UIA organised a web conference on 24 April exploring practical ways cities can implement the right to housing. Tesserae’s senior researcher Laura Colini moderated the discussion that contributes to the European Urban Agenda Parntership on housing and helps develop further policy recommendations to push the agenda on the right […]