activism

Cecco Rivolta – Firenze

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.

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Cuvrybrache, Berlin

Cuvrybrache, Berlin

A wasteland along the Spree river, that soon became a place of refuge for those with no place in society. Evacuated from its informal inhabitants, the area has undergone restructuring to host a complex of luxury buildings. This piece of land of 10,000 square meters located near the river Spree remained for years an empty lot in which a configuration of multiple actors were trapped in the contradictions and oddities of post-modernity, as practices of meaning-making were being played out in a dead-end struggle to assert claims over the identity of such urban void. The complexities of the social dynamics that have constantly defined and erased the use of the Cuvrybrache throughout the years unfold on several overlapping layers. The most visible of these strata is the conflict for the material control of space, which mostly involves those who envision the Cuvrybrache as an appealing potential to generate economic capital and the Kreutzberg neighborhood, which attaches a cultural value to the territory, whose story is worth to be outlined briefly.

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