Conference

EduCity The neighbourhood as a learning environment Conference Berlin, 25-26 January 2024, 10 am-6pm. Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek, Blücherplatz 1 10961 Berlin-Kreuzberg

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.

The conference is the final event of the EduCity Erasmus plus project and will present results and learnings of the project all along with papers connected with the topic, keynotes, workshops and field explorations. The conference is a cooperation between the Educity partnership, including Bond of Union (Palermo), Les Têtes de l’Art (Marseille), Ideas Factory (Sofia) und Zemos98 (Sevilla), Tesseræ (Berlin), and Zentral und Landesbibliothek Berlin (ZLB).

The conference is held at the America GedenkBibliothek, ZLB’s Kreuzberg branch, which is a public library oriented at empowering their communities by facilitating knowledge production.

Day
One

  1. Registration

  2. Welcome from the guest Institution
    Tim Leik, Head of Program

  3. Introduction and program
    Lorenzo Tripodi

  4. Keynote talk
    Bertram Niessen - CheFare
    in conversation with Laura Colini (Tesserae, IUAV Venezia)

  5. Coffee Break

  6. Session 1

    Edu-City

    • Introduction
      Paola Pizzo - Bond Of Union
    • EduCity Handbook
      Lorenzo Tripodi - Tesserae
    • EduCity Training Scheme
      Paola Pizzo - Bond Of Union
    • Compendium of Local Experiences
      Sevilla Local Lab (Rosalía Gutiérrez and Julia Cortegana - Zemos98)
      Sofia Local Lab (Yanina Taneva - Ideas Factory)
      Palermo Local Lab (Paola Pizzo and Giuliana Pampillonia - Bond of Union)
      Marseille Local Lab (Coline Bouchy - Les Têtes de l’Art)
      Berlin Local Lab (Luis Migueli Benavides, Nina Szkolka - Tesserae)

  7. Lunch Break

  8. Session 2

    Changing neighbourhoods
    Chair Laura Colini

    • Learning from a process of social transformation in a vulnerable neighbourhood. Contributions to urban social work and social education.
      Francisco-Javier Martínez-Carranza and María Mar Delgado-Serrano - University of Cordoba
    • The Production of Neighbourhoods - urbz’s experience from Dharavi Mumbai.
      Rahul Srivastava, Matias Echanove and Antonio Gioia - URBZ
    • Schools at the centre of the future: in Brescia, urban regeneration starts from educational contexts.
      Camilla Pinoli and Carlotta Roma - Avanzi S.p.A. a|place
    • HAU to connect – practices of belonging to a neighbourhood.
      Stella Konstantinou - Hebbel am Ufer

  9. Coffee break

  10. Session 3

    Governing Commons
    Chair Lorenzo Tripodi

    • Neighbourhoods as Educational Opportunity Systems: The Role of Fondazione Innovazione Urbana in the City of Bologna.
      Irene Giunchi and Elisabetta Caruso - Fondazione Innovazione Urbana
    • L'Ecole des communs.
      Anne Gorry - Radio RapTz
      Frédéric Sultan - Remix the Commons
      Maria Francesca de Tullio and Angela Maria Osorio Mendez
    • 48-Hour Momentum: Impacting Varusha South's Narrative on the 2023 Political Stage. Tracing Varusha South's Path through Actor-Network Theory.
      Denitsa Milsuheva and Galin Popov - TaM

  11. Wrap up and Intro Day 2’s activities

  12. End of the activities

Day
Two

  1. Intro of the day

  2. Session 4A

    Learning neighbourhoods I
    Chair Luis Miguel Benavides

    • What happens in the city. Urban learning practices for adults in education.
      Anna Uttaro
    • Discover, create, act - reshaping the local by co-design projects with children and youth.
      Hendrik Weiner
    • Undrawing the neighbourhood with children.
      Kitti Baracsi, based on experiences carried out in collaboration with numerous children and adults / periferias dibujadas

  3. Session 4B

    Creative Approaches I
    Chair Ben Sassen

    • No more monuments – what art in Sofia.
      Viktoria Draganova - Center for Social Vision
    • Permaculture by One Field Fallow Brussels, Belgium.
      Alice Devenyns and Jan Denoo - Collective One Field Fallow - OFF
    • Giudecca Paradàis.
      Teresa Ditadi, Sarah Ndjo Fernandes, Vittoria Fiore
    • The Aromatic Garden for Don Roberto Sardelli in Roma. Civic rite for the creation of the public garden dedicated to Don Roberto Sardelli.
      Daniele Mancini, Educator, Artist @ UNPACKED Studio

  4. Coffee break

  5. Session 5A

    Learning neighbourhoods II
    Chair Bertram Niessen

    • Made in Sishane Project as a Collective Learning and Making Practice for Sustainability of Craft Neighbourhoods in Istanbul.
      Aslı Kıyak İngin
    • Enhancing Resilience Through Participatory Learning: A Comparative Study of Community Projects in Zumpango, State of Mexico, and Nuevo Leon.
      José Roberto Lagunes Trejo - Fundación Hogares
    • Learning from Borgo Ticino: Exploring Socially and Environmentally Situated Architectural Pedagogies at the University of Pavia.
      Linda Migliavacca, Prof. Ioanni Delsante, Maddalena Giovanna Anita Duse, Tabassum Ahmed
    • CircularCityChallenge - Learning processes – for both Local Governments and Educational Systems.
      Vera Marin

  6. Session 5B

    Creative Approaches II
    Chair Yanina Taneva

    • Neukölln Graffiti as a Critical Tool.
      Rik Fisher
    • Les Suppliantes, une réécriture (a rewrite): art and utility.
      Organon Art Cie, Marseille based art company, 3e arrondissement
    • Urban neighbourhoods, mental maps and inclusiveness.
      Susan Qu. University of Cambridge
    • Brachland: Audiowalk about Urban Utopias in Weißensee.
      Katya Romanova

  7. Lunch break / Urban picnic walk in Mehringplatz

  8. Session 6

    Parallel Workshops

    • Urban Reconnaissance: Intersectional City
      coordinated by Lorenzo Tripodi (Tesserae)
    • Engagement / Why and How Engage the Stakeholders in a Partecipative Project (concepts, exchanges of practices, tools sharing)
      coordinated by Coline Bouchy (Les Têtes de l’Art) and Yanina Taneva (Ideas Factory)
    • New Narratives: Weaving our Voices Together to Create a Collective Podcast Episode
      facilitators: Julia Cortegana (Zemos98), Paola Pizzo (Bond of Union), Rosalía Gutiérrez (Zemos98)

  9. Coffee Break

  10. Reporting and final elaboration of the workshop

  11. Conclusions and salutations