Musing on Power - Tiffany
urban reconnaissance: “observe, assess and represent the urban context from a specific perspective, and to single out particular elements, rhythms or systems concurring in the production »
Gender and Diversity - Luis Miguel
My colleague Giulia and I were assigned the mission of “Gender and diversity”. From the beginning, we assumed that our walking tour would not be able »
Playgrounds - Michele
Mission 6 was prompted by the investigation of the neighbourhood as a pedagogic field, a place for learning and growing. Which are the spaces, structures and »
Timeline - Arthur & Francesco
For our secret mission no. 1, we decided to focus on the Hauptstraße - from U-Bahnhof Innsbrucker Platz to U-Bahnhof Kleistpark - in order to create »
How Pigeons shape Schöneberg - Ina
After exploring borders in and of Schöneberg during the first workshop meeting, I decided to focus my personal contribution on a different species inhabiting cities all »
Political Culture & Activism - Teresa & Wiebke
Map forms of cultural expression or identities you find in the area: are there institutions, monuments, practices? Compare dominant / official culture vs subcultural expressions and minority »
Love & Commons
What is love in the city? And how is it expressed in the commons of the city – shared spaces, resources, principles? Let’s put on a »
Conflicts - Emma
Squatted houses was a social phenomenon that affected the entire German capital, albeit in different ways. First West Berlin (80's) and then East Berlin (90's). In »
Gender as a kaleidoscope - Giulia
Gender as kaleidoscope. Reflecting on an urban exploration 19.09.20 As we started not-so-aimlessly walking North through the backstreets branching from Hauptstraße, Luismi and I »
Schöneberg Heritage and the Commons
On 19 September 2020 we started a new URLab dedicated to investigate the neighbourhood of Schöneberg in Berlin. The laboratory is part of Collaborative Atlases for »
CDMX_URLAB. Oginoknauss
Discovering Mexico City from scratch, the first element to emerge evidently is the theme of water, (or its absence / disappearance). Mexico City is built on a »
DCMX_URLab. María José Pantoja
As stated in the exercise Narrated City, “the city is a work of fact and fiction”. In this sense, the city constitutes a narrative, which is »
CDMX_URlab. Jose Roberto Lagunes Trejo
City of Situations . That should be enough to describe Mexico City. As a stranger and newcomer to this fabulous city, I constantly find myself being amazed »
CDMX_URlab. Noe Mendoza
City of Culture Magdalena Contreras is one of the township of the Mexico City who have “urban towns” each town have a solid organization; composed by »
CDMX_URLab. Max Emiliano Negrete Gonzalez
City of Culture / City of Signs / Welfare City Para poder hablar de lo urbano en la CDMX hay que retomar la idea de que la ciudad »
CDMX_URLab, UNAM November 2018
Exercises in urban reconnaissance Mexico City UNAM, November 7/8 2018 *Report in progress * The workshop of Urban Reconnaissance at UNAM developed during two days, divided »
Milano Isola. City of Signs
During the 2nd week of the Attractive Cities summer school held at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Jim Macneil organised an Urban Reconnaissance workshop with Chiara Vitrano »
Berlin. Prinzessinnengarten
Urlab#3_Mehringplatz Switch On visit Prinzessinnengarten with Marco Clausen »
Mehringplatz. City of memory. Daniele
City of memory, memory as a commons. Like in many other areas of Berlin, the presence of “memory” in Mehringplatz is amplified by its absence in »
Mehringplatz. City of Culture. Hanka
OPEN The design of the plaza of Mehringplatz suggests an open space where people from outside the plaza can come together, or the people living around »
Mehringplatz. Inhabited City. Ogino Knauss
Mehringplatz. City of Commons. URLab#1
The first Urban Reconnaissance Lab of the EULER - Switch On Mehringplatz program took place on October 27, dedicated to the exercise City of Commons. The »