Tag: Urbanity
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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…
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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.…
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Salo Stories and a learning format
Few people have heard of the Finnish city of Salo. For some it rings a bell when they hear that it was where televisions and radios of the brand Salora was produced. But for most people including citizens of Salo the city will always be linked to the production of Nokia mobile phones…
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Notes from Berlin
The conference “Learning from Context” in late September was held in an appropriate location: the Aquarium at Kottbusser Tor next to the Gececondu of Kotti & Co. In other words a hot spot of urban activism and as such a good context to discuss “urban education, knowledge exchange and capacity building”. The conference was the closing event of…