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Furutorpsplatsen - the park where we do most of our activities

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My overall project is called Söderscen. Where we work with the community in the Söder neighbourhood on activating public spaces through different initiatives, events, and activities all year long.

My project part of Community Alphabet is a series of workshops for active associations (local community organisations) to explore, support, and explain different processes to support them work with public resources in the city (funding, communication, Swedish law regarding associations, project management, collaboration with the public sector, etc). The program runs with 3 local partners and will target 5-6 associations (15 participants) and will start in April 2024.

After completing the program, the associations can apply for a small grant to implement one activity/event in one of our public spaces (150-500euro)

Why we are doing this?

We think about the social sustainability of the neighbourhood as we do not know when our projects end, and to build capacity for the local associations to explore and run their own projects if we (the partners) are no longer working as mediators between public sector + local associations.

https://soderscen.helsingborg.se/

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Picture with teachers learning about how to introduce the investigation method to young children 

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One of the objectives of the project is to connect mentors passionate about science to share resources such as space, equipment, news and explore collaborations and learning from each other.

I am talking about science teachers, about teenagers passionate about robotics, about engineers and innovators, primary school teachers, parents, museum curators, designers, researchers. They share a passion about science, education, they value innovation and the quality of the educational process.

So far we've had 3 workshops and all of them were very fun and interesting.

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Community gardening, repairing religious monuments, organizing neighborhood festivals or clean-up events, or playing sports with children at risk of poverty. This is just a small list of the activities that hundreds of citizens of Ústí nad Labem volunteer for through various associations, informal initiatives and individuals. A significant number of them are united in the group Ústí adventurers, which for the second year is linked by the theme of active citizenship, higher quality of public space and local life, belonging and mutual support. Thanks to the festival, which they will hold together in the central park of the city, they will represent a wide range of activities, including typical on-site activities with the aim to raise awareness, educate and at the same time inspire and motivate others to similar activities, join existing active groups or follow them on social networks. The festival will also include presentations by selected local government departments, local businesses or theatre performances for children. Come and enjoy the day with those who love the city.

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Our project is built upon the community of the MNAD (Spanish Museum of Decorative Arts). This is an institution that belongs to the Ministry of Culture, dedicated to the exhibition, conservation, dissemination, and documentation of pieces of decorative arts and modern and contemporary design.

Currently, it is living an ongoing transformation to become a more open, more inclusive and more participative Museum.

In order to endeavor this, a Transformation Lab has been created for the Museum, with the aim of creating a new community which will help to design the outcomes of this transformation.

Both the Lab itself and its community are called “La Batidora” (the Blender/Mixer in Spanish), because this transformation is build upon the idea of blending the principles of what a Museum ought to be and obtain an unprecedented formula.

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This community is under development, is evolving slowly but surely (we make small steps and not rush anything). We have identified the need and then we validated the need with youngsters and their parents via afce2face discussions and online questionnaires. We are about to have our first Workshop with a facilitator and groups of parents & young to work together to define the aspirations and expectations of this community.

The main scope for creating this community is to offer youngsters a space where they can socialize, learn, and feel comfortable to express openly their queries, and opinions and ask questions. The community will be coordinated by adults and a similar number of youngsters to invite them to be co-creators for something that is dedicated to them. We envisage to tackle theme of interest for them and to invite facilitators to interact on the specific theme (self-esteem, public speaking, bullying, sexual education etc) and we encourage them to socialize with the others youngsters similar age from a different school in order to exchange ideas and make friendships.

We will come back with the outcome from the 1st WS. Meanwhile we are working on the identity and creating online pages on social media, but also looking for a dedicated place to create a dedicated Hub.

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DALL·E 2024-03-31 12.45.00 - Illustrate a scene where kids aged 12 to 14 are engaging in diverse social activities to enhance their creativity. They are gathered in a spacious, mo

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This picture was taken at the community gardening session with our new neighbours (oct 2023)

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design factory x meeting new community (Ivica Horáková, Slovakia)

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design factory x meeting new community (Ivica Horáková, Slovakia)

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I am working at design factory (event and culture space) for about 11 years. We have changed the building and we have moved from the very city centre in Bratislava to southern part - Jarovce. It is completely different environment and we want to be more open to our neighbours in the village.

We have organised some gardening sessions (on the photo), I´m having individual interviews based on the ABCD knowledge with our neighbours and we are planning to organise local picnincs – meE(A)Tings at the garden. Our goal is to know the community, it´s interests, assets and passions and to be here with them.

However we are still waiting for the village Mayor to approve our papers after the reconstruction of the building, so we can´t really work properly and as much as we would like to.

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Pomalší - mapping of the community and support of giving the birth of something in the community by connecting people

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Pomalší - mapping of the community and support of giving the birth of something in the community by connecting people

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Mapping the community in Římov (South Bohemia). Having a conversations, inviting people for meetings and now we try to find out what are the assets of community, what they can do for themselves and how to support it. We also cooperate with municipality, Local Action Group Pomalší, and some formal i nonformal groups.

Picture is from one of the meetings, where people were discussing what they would like to do and what offer to the others...result is a list of options and connections between people which were made.