The issue 68 of LoSquaderno dedicated to the theme “Loop” includes a short piece by Lorenzo Tripodi. The paper examines participatory processes as “loops of cognitive loops” and presents Tesserae’s Frame4Change as a recursive action system similar to a music composition approach.
How UAEU partnerships can be used by policy and decision-makers to end homelessness and provide adequate and affordable housing. An article published on the EU Urban Agenda platform.
In Italia, la casa è riconosciuta pubblicamente come un problema e lo è sempre più per un numero crescente di individui che vivono la mancanza di alloggio o la difficoltà di mantenere un affitto con costi di raffreddamento e riscaldamento non piú pagabili se non con indebitamento. I mesi del 2023-2024 hanno visto una crescente […]
After more than a year of intensive work, we are officially concluding the Edu-City project and would like to share some interesting results and reflections with you. EDU-CITY CONFERENCE In late January, the Edu-City Conference took place at the Amerika Gedenk Bibliothek under the theme “The Neighborhood as a Learning Environment.” We had the pleasure […]
Per Housing che possa definirsi “sociale” si possono considerare tutte quelle forme di alloggio che riconoscono la casa come un diritto, inclusivo, sicuro, dignitoso accessibile economicamente, tale da non alimentare meccanismi di mercificazione e speculazione che pongono il profitto economico dinanzi al beneficio sociale.
This handbook is the first project resulting of the Erasmus+ UrbEX. It aims at outlining a methodology of urban exploration as a means of engagement for young people in vulnerable contexts.
This handbook is a result of the Erasmus plus project EduCity. It is directed at practitioners, educators, civil servants and engaged citizens who are active in processes of social inclusion and community empowerment in urban contexts. It aims at providing ideas and tools to exploit the neighbourhood as an active site for mutual learning, innovation and capacity building.
Thi toolkit was designed to support the establishment of the INHUBS of the IN-HABIT project in four medium sized European cities, and provided the basis for the training of the local community activators.
Recruited as ad hoc expert for the URBACT Civic E-State project, Tesserae senior researcher Lorenzo Tripodi was commissioned to lead a study on the practices of community-led self construction and renovation of buildings (“autorecupero and autocostruzione” ), as practiced in recent decades in Italy. The consequent report presenting the results of this study is published here.
In this article, we introduce the experience of the network of Museums of Memory and Resistance in Rio de Janeiro, presenting in particular the case of the Museo da Maré. Our encounter with such bottom-up cultural space derives from the involvement in the EU Marie Curie rise project CoCreation, which provided the opportunity to spend a few months researching in Rio de Janeiro with the aim of developing and testing co-creation methodologies in disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
