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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.

activism · autonomous center · commons · housing · media activism · self-led construction · self-management · squatting · urban gardening

Autorecupero ed autocostruzione dei beni comuni

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.

autocostruzione · autorecupero · commons · housing · self-led construction · self-management · social centers · social housing · urban commons

L’ASILO – NAPOLI

The Asilo (The shelter) is a centre for independent production and sharing of art, managed by an informal open community. The building is owned by the City, but its management is devolved to the artist community through the innovative model of the “Usi Civici”, creating an experience of direct democracy and opening the way for the istitutional development of urban commons in Naples.

commons · Italy · Napoli · participation · urban regenaration

Museu da Maré – Rio de Janeiro

Maré (or Complexo da Maré), in the northern periphery of Rio de Janeiro, is a complex of several favelas with 130.000 inhabitants stacked on 10 sq.km. The Museu da Maré was created by popular initiative to reclaim and de-stigmatise the identity of the neighbourhood. Tesserae researchers had the chance to visit the place and get in contact with the promoters thanks to the CoCreation project.

commons · education · museum · rio de janeiro · social inclusion · social museology · urban commons · urban education

Learning from Context

A booklet recording and reflecting on the presentations and workshops at the conference Learning from Context organised by Tesserae in Berlin (22nd-23rd September 2017) in the frame of the EULER project.

art · commons · conference · EULER · learning form context · tools · urban education

PRINZESSINNENGARTEN – BERLIN

Starting from an urban gardening project, the experience of Prinzessinnengarten extended to a wide range of innovative practices, political stances and networking activities fostering a DIY integrated approach. Since 2020, the gardens occupy two distinct areas, both organized on principles of self-sufficiency, food-independence and social inclusivity: the original site located in Moritzplatz (Berlin-Kreuztberg) and the recent acquisition of San Jacobi cemetery (Berlin-Neukölln). The Prinzessinnengarten project promotes gardening as a practice of community building and social emancipation from urban neo-liberal dynamics, while also offering its visitors and members a wide range of cultural and educational activities aimed at sharing different forms of knowledge and skills and at raising consciousness on current ecological issues and social challenges.

Berlin · commons · DIY · gentirification · Prinzessinnen Garten · public space