urban education

edu-city conference

The EduCity conference looks at the potential of neighbourhoods as spaces for social engagement. It will present ideas and tools to explore the neighbourhood as an active site for mutual learning, innovation and capacity building. EduCity has a multidisciplinary and inclusive ambition and is open to researchers, practitioners, educators, civil servants and engaged citizens active in processes of social inclusion and community empowerment. The objective is to connect and provide tools to organisations and individuals who share an interest in the potential of neighbourhoods as learning environments.

Berlin · conference · educity · erasmus-plus · library · urban education

Urbex Handbook

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.

handbook · urban education · urban exploration · urban reconnaissance · urbex · youths

EduCity Conference

The neighbourhood as a learning environment

Berlin, 25th-26th January 2024, Amerikagedenk Bibliothek.

Berlin · call for papers · conference · learning · neighbourhood · urban education

ITINERANTS

This tool was developed during the URBEX training program on Urban exploration as a tool for the engagement of youths at risk of exclusion. It describes a number of approaches and methods to guide and inspire youth workers that aim to explore their neighbourhoods and socio-spatial contexts with the company of a youth group.

gaming · social inclusion · toolkit · tools · training · urban education · urban reconnaissance · urbex · youths

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.

training · urban education · urban exploration · youths

Memory and Resistance

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.

brasil · cocreation · community museum · deprived neighbourhoods · favelas · museum · rio de janeiro · social museology · socvial inclusion · urban education

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