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Salo Stories

2017 Salo Stories, Finland. The pedagogical experiments of the EU funded “Urban Education Live” project took (mostly) place in the Finnish city of Salo. The town is well known — in Finland — as a town hard hit by globalisation: The production of Nokia phones took the city from boom to bust. The main local […]

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ACCITI Workshop

2018, ACCITI Workshop, Venice. As part of the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2018 I collaborated with Biennale Urbana in their temporary appropriation of Caserma Pepe, an old army barrack on Lido. The high school students had 2 weeks of practical experience in what we called Situated Active Citizenship. An initial exploration of their classroom […]

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Space Transformers

2019 Space Transformers, Salo, Finland. The game based exploration, Space Transformers, was tested in 2019 and showed that using this new learning strategy, the university and local highschool students could form a core in a mutual embodied learning process between universities and local communities. The workshop had a structure that is based on the Active […]