Category: Tampere

  • Urban Education Live final symposium and UEL Network Formation event 14 – 15 December 2020

    Urban Education Live final symposium and UEL Network Formation event 14 – 15 December 2020

    UEL is happy to announce the Urban Education Live Final Symposium 2020. We kindly invite everyone to join our event on 14th and 15th of December 2020, to exchange our thoughts on the advancements of the consortium, on the current state of live education and to give a start for the new UEL working group…

  • UEL:TAMP presents: we.city

    UEL:TAMP presents: we.city

      We.City is a mobile application that has its aim to help communities to group up, to realize local initiatives and to find expert help. The idea for it was largely developed within the UEL Tampere team, but now it is being developed independently by the group of volunteers and enthusiasts from different fields. This…

  • UEL:TAMP presents: Play Salo

    UEL:TAMP presents: Play Salo

      A video that goes more in detail with the PlaySalo game where University students would join high school students on the ground in Finnish city of Salo.

  • UEL:TAMP presents: Play Salo Context

    UEL:TAMP presents: Play Salo Context

      A video that describes the practical and theoretical background for both the UEL project and more specifically the project of the Tampere Team: PlaySalo.

  • Urban Education Live: How changing the role of universities can enhance urban equality

    Urban Education Live: How changing the role of universities can enhance urban equality

    Shafayet Choudhury from JPI interviews Panu Lehtovuori from Urban Education Live team Tampere about the project: ”More people than ever before obtain a university education, but certain communities, such as the working class and ethnic minorities, are sometimes underrepresented in the university system. Ideally, universities should serve the needs of all members of society. However, universities shouldn’t…

  • A Pedagogy of the Urban — Article published in the EUCANET eBook: City Agencies Working Papers

    A Pedagogy of the Urban — Article published in the EUCANET eBook: City Agencies Working Papers

    The Tamp team in collaboration with Swetha Rao Dhananka responded to a call for papers as part of the EUCANET project that looks into “City Agencies” Read the full article — from page 88 here Abstract While a common urban agenda at the supranational EU-level, as foreseen by the Amsterdam pact has been established, there are…

  • Play Salo Symposium

    Play Salo Symposium

    Summing up the Play Salo Symposium, May 16, 2019 Play Salo is a game based learning process with the focus on Active citizenship and Urban development. It is a collaboration between Tampere school of architecture, City of Salo and the Salo Highschool. Since beginning of 2017 a number of different pedagogic experiments have been conducted…

  • Community researcher or citizen journalist

    Community researcher or citizen journalist

    Going to the Finnish town of Salo in the first 2 weeks of May 2018 concluded 4 experiments with the goal of developing new curriculum on highschool level that would form at local connection and knowledge that can feed a mutual learning process with the University students and researchers: An educational link between a more…

  • Salo Games

    Salo Games

      In the Tampere team we have been talking about how to integrate a game element into the explorations and Social Mapping that the highschool students are working with in Salo. To get an idea of our work so far — read this text on Salo Stories here. In short this first experiment — done in…

  • Social and situated mapping in Salo, Finland

    Social and situated mapping in Salo, Finland

      Salo is well known — in Finland — as a town hard hit by globalisation — Nokia left the city — but it is also a very fragmented physical city structure. The spatial and social aspects merge into divisions between “Salo-locals”, foreigners, old people, young people, the disabled and people living in the centre and countryside.…