Projects
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IN-HABIT
IN-HABIT is an Horizon 2020 project led by the University of Cordoba. The overall objective of IN-HABIT is to foster Inclusive Health and Wellbeing in peripheral small and medium size cities by means of mobilizing resources around a core topic and galvanize them through solutions that integrate cultural, digital, nature-based and social innovations applied to the co-design, co-development and co-management of urban public spaces. Tesserae has a core role in the project, leading WP5 dedicated to the engagement of citizens and stakeholders all along the five years project. We are in charge of delivering a methodological toolkit for civic engagement (Stakeholders Engagement with Gender and Diversity perspective Toolkit), training the local community activators of the four cities and supporting their PPPPs, steering the co-production of four Inclusive Transition Pathways, and finally reporting and disseminating the experience.
EduCity
The Erasmus+ project Edu-City aims at promoting field educational experiences with a specific attention at deprived urban contexts where fragile adults are excluded from opportunities of inclusion, participation, learning and local resources valorisation. Tesserae contributes by coordinating the production of the handbook, providing specific training on participative methodologies, testing the the application of the method in the local lab in Berlin and organising ther final international conference.
UrbEX
UrbEX is an Erasmus plus project aimed at developing urban exploration as tool to engage and empower youths at risk of exclusion. Tesserae is lead partner and coordinator in the project, managing the partnership between five organisations in five different EU countries. We are delivering the URBEX handbook of Urban Exploration and testing the handbook’s methodologies in Berlin within local labs. Finally in September 2023 we will also be organising the project’s final international conference.
News
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Abitare, una questione politica
On September 23rd, 2023 Laura participated to the conference Abitare, una questione politica organised by Fondazione Michelucci in Fiesole in the context of the Festival della Nuova Città. Laura introduced the discussion with a presentation on “Strategie sociali per l’abitare: politiche e pratiche in Europa” (Social strategies for housing: politics and practices in Europe). Find here the video recording of the event.
EduCity Conference
The neighbourhood as a learning environment Berlin, 25th-26th January 2024, Amerikagedenk Bibliothek.
UrbEXplorers
UrbEXplorers is the final conference of the Erasmus+ project UrbEX. The multidisciplinary symposium will discuss and promote urban exploration as a methodology for empowering youths, overcoming their vulnerabilities and fostering their engagement in community life.
Places
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Cecco Rivolta – Firenze
This collective house in Via Dazzi, Firenze, on the slopes up to Rifredi, is a historical experience of a student squat that has been essential for various Florentine urban movement initiatives, serving during the years as a community hub, a laboratory, and an organising spot. In recent years it has been transformed in a pilot project of the Tuscany Region for the regeneration of social housing through the work of its inhabitants. Tesserae’s researchers have followed the case of via Dazzi since its early steps and presented it as an exemplary case study in the study on Self Recovery of Common Goods for Civic e-State – URBACT.
HOHENSCHÖNHAUSEN – BERLIN
Hohenschönhausen is a district part of the borough of Lichtenberg. During the separation of the city, this borough of East Berlin was part of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). This area is notorious for having hosted the former headquarters of the Ministry of State Security (Stasi). Nowadays, the population of Hohenschönhausen is increasing its cultural diversity, with a significant Vietnamese community resulting from a guest worker program implemented in the 1980s. In recent years, Neu-Hohenschönhausen has hosted three refugee centers, and the district is making efforts to promote integration and community solidarity through public investments. In this context, Tesserae has developed participatory workshops with local residents on topics related to issues of a memory culture being documented by residents of the district themselves, promoting activities of community storytelling.
