Link to Presentation at the AAG conference in Boston, April 5, 2017. Still a work in progress regarding producing a paper.
UEL – Urban Education Live has been funded. Much more to follow – happy holidays
Urban Education – Session in Berlin
Join us for a discussion on new approaches in Urban Education November 17, 14.00 in ExRotaprint, Berlin.
UEL – Full application submitted!
Together, partners in Tampere, Sheffield, Ljubljana and Bucharest have worked hard on the full application for EU funding of the UEL initiative. Have a glimpse into the UEL Network, Collaboration, Communication and more here
Urban Education Live – August 25
Join us for a presentation and discussion of the UEL initiative in Venice.
August 25, 14:00, Turning Tables, Palazzo Mora, Strada Nuova 3659, Venezia, Italy
After some time working under the radar it is a good feeling to invite people to an event that marks a more public part of an initiative that started out with a quick idea – and an EU application – that hatched in the February darkness of Finland and turned into a initiative involving partners from Tampere, Sheffield, Ljubljana and Bucharest.
The project is in short a more integrated – super site specific – collaboration between universities and urban communities. Our EU application is now through to the final round and the discussion in Venice is a way to sharpen our arguments in a final project proposal. But it is also to look further and develop the initiative not least by getting involved in new networks.
June Update
The past half year has been very interesting. I have begun to teach and more importantly develop new educational formats with the School of Architecture, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland.
The first step in this process was the two week workshop: Mapping Urbanity with both lectures and talks on perception, appropriation, mapping and urbanity but most importantly a number of hands on exercises on the ground which is rather challenging in the dark Finnish winter. See pictures from the area – or the zone – here. Continue reading “June Update”
Pratt Center and Ron Shiffman
I meet Ron Shiffman at The Pratt Institute, School of Architecture which is situated in a part of Brooklyn where global forces are rapidly changing the fabric of local communities. In short one can say that one kind of segregation mostly based on race now is changing to a segregation based on income (which is not unrelated to race). I was staying in the Bed-Stuy neighbourhood that could be called the ground zero of struggle against gentrification. Continue reading “Pratt Center and Ron Shiffman”
Strong Healthy Communities Initiatives – SHCI
On the sunny day in November the city of Newark, New Jersey, was almost too clean and people who were looking after the central part of town was driving around on Segways. It was quite clear that an effort had gone into making the place look good but it was unclear for whom this tidiness was intended.
I met with the leader of Strong Healthy Communities Initiative, Monique Baptiste-Good, in their clean and beautiful offices on a square with remarkable many organisations addressing homelessness, alcoholism etc. One of them with a sign welcoming president Obama who was there the day before. Continue reading “Strong Healthy Communities Initiatives – SHCI”
Cities By Citizens – Study trip to New York City
Two main impressions from my study trip to New York City: The amazing openness from the people I wanted to meet – and those I met on the way – and the feeling that the problems we are facing when it comes to the development of our cites are more similar than I expected in spite of very different situations.
I was visiting the city to study how a more civil society driven urban development would make a difference from a European tradition where it is more run by states and municipalities. Would it mean that the approaches were more innovative and able to get much closer to what was going on on the ground – yes. But did it add up to address the massive problems that New York still faces (even) after years of (uneven) economic progress – no. Continue reading “Cities By Citizens – Study trip to New York City”
LiveMapping – Case study
A collection of screenshot from a LiveMapping done in Hedehusene in the western suburbs of Copenhagen in 2012. The mapping was done both with street interviews and small interventions such as public meetings, walks and being part of a local market. Especially our street kitchen was an important tool as a mobile base.
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