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2022 Up Grants - Education & Raising Awareness - WINNERS -  

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2022 Up Grants - Art & Sustainability - WINNERS -  

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2022 Up Grants - Organising an Event - WINNERS -  

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2022 Up Grants - Managing a Socio-Cultural Centre - WINNERS -  

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A community practice that aims at the systematic use of secondary raw materials

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La Capagrossa

Italy

Materia is a community practice that aims at the systematic use of secondary raw materials. The project intends to create a real hub of territorial reference for the reuse of plastics.

The project aims to raise awareness among citizens on the need to reduce the production of new plastics and holds workshops to illustrate the process of the reuse of plastics and to experiment with the creation of new products. These workshops concentrate on training citizens on the different types of plastics, highlighting the differences between completely recyclable and those that cannot be recycled. This enables more and more people to autonomously use machinery and design objects to be made from recycled plastic.

The community of Ruvo di Puglia is involved in a process of collecting plastic wastes which are then used in laboratories dedicated to children and adults. The aim is to realise and produce a city gadget made of 100% recycled plastic that can represent the city.

In addition to reducing, if not eliminating the production of new plastics, it is important that the plastic already existing today does not become waste, but a material that can be used over and over again.

Website
https://www.lacapagrossa.it/

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/lacapagrossacoworking/

Twitter

https://twitter.com/lacapagrossa

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/lacapagrossacoworking_/

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/company/la-capagrossa-coworking/

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Periviou Sociocultural Centre intergrades people from different backgrounds into common actions

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Peri Viou Socio-Cultural Centre - Eco-friendly Lighting 

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Peri Viou Sociocultural Centre

Greece

Periviou socio-cultural centre is located in a small Greek rural city of Thessaly. Since it opened its gates in 2017, Periviou operates at least 3 times per week with projects, events and all socio-cultural activities which offer local society a different point of view.

As a non-profit organisation with all volunteering membership, Periviou manages the centre and its activities with direct democratic -open to all- assembly once per month. Located in a 700m² backyard, Periviou has the opportunity to host several community activities such as social gardening and live events. In order to provide the community with events that can also take place in the evenings, the need for an aesthetic upgrade and sufficient lighting of the garden seemed essential.

This -open to all- garden will be home to many new projects and events. Especially during the summer months when the heat is at its height, a welcoming, well-lit outside space to welcome the community is a necessity.  Accordingly, the aim is to increase chances for more new members or at least more participants in the events.

An eco-friendly lighting system, with solar panels, will enable Periviou to hold 4-night events per month. Around a 50-person increase at each event, equal to 200 visitors per month. Making this socio-cultural centre very accessible to all.

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/PeriViou/

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/periviou/?hl=fr

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A transdisciplinary and educational garden in the highly urbanised area of Charles Hermite district in Gare des Mines

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Le Jardin (The Garden) - La Station -  Collectif MU

France

Le Jardin combines composting and gardening spaces, and works for an urban (agri)culture, creative and productive of social links.

In this area, La Station - Gare des Mines site and its 3,000m2 of outdoor space offers a field of "doing" and "caring", and experimentation in the desartificialization of soil, and revegetation (“greening”).

It aims at reducing the biowaste of the site and the neighbours, to transform it into compost, to enrich the soil of the site, and to carry out in parallel the development of an experimental garden associating art practices. Through the organisation of gardening, composting events and workshops, the project aims to contribute to raising awareness of urban agriculture and ecology among a wide audience.

Le Jardin puts forward a circular economy and places cultural encounters at the centre of its practice and its concerns. Collectif MU aims to reduce waste during events, as well as raising awareness about circularity, overproduction of waste, and composting.

The project aims to reduce the biowaste of the wasteland, to transform it into compost, enrich the soil of the site, and to carry out in parallel, the development of a garden with an experiential and awareness-raising aim.

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/stationgaredesmines/

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/stationgaredesmines/?hl=fr

Website

http://lastation.paris/

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An awareness-raising project built around the interaction of Art, Science and Environmental Activism. 

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Banda Larga APS

Italy

A contemporary discussion around the ecological crisis proposes a multidisciplinary approach.

The data collected by scientists can be made more accessible to a broader audience with the use of artists and activists. Artistic practices as means of communication and art in itself have often played a key role in times of radical change. The interaction of these is essential to the growth of the sustainability paradigm within our society.

“Esseri Reciproci” is an educational path consisting of workshops, public talks, music performances, and art installations held across the city of Turin.

These meetings, workshops, artistic performances, interactive walks, and inspirational talks with cultural operators, climate activists, contemporary artists, and local policymakers of this project aim to bring together the experiences of different European cultural centres and young activists.  A round table aimed at investigating and discussing possible sustainable organisational models.

A series of podcasts, from the interviews and talks, will be released on Radio Banda Larga website (rbl.media), accessible anytime and to anyone. These talks and podcasts will reach a heterogeneous audience (younger generations, families, workers, and students) and make scientific data more accessible to non-scientists.

Spreading the culture of sustainability and enhancing the role of environmental awareness in influencing people’s behaviour, promoting positive change through a series of initiatives and actions by using quantitative and qualitative indicators are at the core of this project.

Website

http://www.associazionebandalarga.org/

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/bandalargafvg/

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/bandalargaaps/?hl=fr

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Slowfest: Organisation of a one-month artistic and experimental low-carbon touring project in New Aquitaine.

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Slowfest

France

Slowfest aims to tackle environmental issues through culture and tourism, by taking into account the economic aspects, as well as the well-being of the participants of a 1-month regional tour in green mobility.

Slowfest has been experimenting with new ecological and less energy-consuming ways of producing events. Together with 7 cultural centres in New Aquitaine, from La Rochelle to Bordeaux, it aims to design and implement an experimental low-carbon tour (by bike, or by train), in order to inspire the organisation of future eco-designed touring events.

Between June 2022 and August 2023, several shows and events will be organised with local and international partners in order to prepare for the different issues raised: energy, logistics, financing, accommodation, and health. Also, provide concrete solutions on how to organise ecological events.

The tour will last 1 month with 7 or 8 stages between the cities of La Rochelle and Bordeaux. Mixing musical and dance proposals, with eco-designed shows, but also slow food and slow accommodation, and mediation to raise awareness of environmental issues.

Main objectives are: the promotion of green mobility and energy autonomy in good production conditions, reducing the environmental impact in the cultural sector through concrete and collective action, transferring know-how, and aid change in the practice of the people working in the cultural sector.

The Slowfest team will take the time with the inhabitants to draw the eco-responsible, collective and artistic practices.

Website
https://slowfest.org/

Twitter

https://twitter.com/slowfest33

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/Slowfest33

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/slow_fest/?hl=fr

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Soluzioni Artistiche APS | l'ARTeficiO APS

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Soluzioni Artistiche APS | l'ARTeficiO APS

Italy

The Sant’Eligio CONNECTION project is aimed at a central urban suburb of Turin overlooked by l’ARTeficIO Cultural Center: the Sant’Eligio block. Sant'Eligio CONNECTION launches a strategic reflection on the regeneration of public space by integrating Tactical Urbanism actions with participatory cultural productions with the involvement of local stakeholders (citizens, schools, groups and associations) and non-resident Italian and foreign artists hosted in artist residences.

The Sant'Eligio block represents a real urban void: a quadrilateral of streets between the streets Bligny, Santa Chiara, Piave, Carlo Ignazio Giulio includes various disused municipal buildings, the "parking" of Piazza Amelia Piccini and the garden of the General Register Office recently discovered for public use thanks to the summer events promoted by l'ARTeficIO Cultural Center that overlooks it.

Starting from the current urban void, Sant’Eligio CONNECTION aims to reappropriate public space - work to recover the shared perception of public space, its identity recognition and belonging. While permanently engaging the community and stakeholder.

Contribute to guide social and urban public choices, such as temporary pedestrian areas, and an artist’s residence. This residence will welcome 8 international visual arts artists with the aim of creating works and installations that concern the various areas (buildings, square, garden) and based on themes that emerged from the public consultation.

In the scope of this project Sant’Eligio CONNECTION will also hold performative workshops, artistic craftsmanship workshops, multi-material creative processing workshops, Urban photography project, storytelling through images returned as a public exhibition, and participatory design. All open to public brainstorming on needs, suggestions and ideas on the destination of the area and the disused public buildings.

l’ARTeficIO’s experience is part of the process of active participation in progress for over a decade that has accompanied the birth and development of those "New Cultural Centers":  multipurpose spaces and live performances aimed at cultural production and youth leadership.

Website

https://larteficio.com/

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/soluzioniartistiche

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Lo Spaccio di Cultura (The Culture Shop) - Portineria di Comunità (Community Concierge)

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Rete italiana di cultura popolare (Italian Network of Popular Culture)

Italy

The Community Concierge Network is a place of meeting and exchange where you receive the help you need and at the same time a way to help others, a place of sharing to co-design cultural, social, and inclusion actions. An exercise of human micro-economy that sets in motion trade and crafts but also those services that do not fall into specific categories but that we need, from running errands in public offices, to shopping, to a place to pick up the courier.

The idea was born from the consideration that a community of proximity is composed of people and not of things or objects, and that its true assets are the good relationships that can be cultivated. We all need a social network to solve small and big problems of everyday life and there is "knowledge" often unknown to the community. The concierges are there to help you find a solution to small daily chores. You will find them every day at the porter's lodge but if you want to discover their stories go to the Knowledge Portal www.portaledeisaperi.org.

The concierges are protected by a regular contract of employment that guarantees their rights in accordance with the law. The Concierge model includes several actions: moments of co-design, proximity services (homework help, sos technology, pet sitting, errands in public offices), a network of trusted merchants, cultural programming, green actions, proximity money, and employment inclusion.

The Spaccio of culture - Portineria di comunità has become a replicable and sustainable model that is being developed in 6 other locations both in the city of Turin and in the Piedmont region.

Website
www.torinosocialimpact.it

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Social interventions and cultural proposals to build social links

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Ratatoj APS

Italy

The "Animare Comunità'' project stems from the need to bridge new economic, cultural, and educational inequalities that have emerged among the young inhabitants of the Monviso valleys. Given the strong fragmentation of the small mountain centres, the need emerged to create a network between the small aggregative realities already existing in the territories. Ratatoj APS is at the centre of a dense network of partners which, through the synergic use of socio-cultural tools, has enabled young people to acquire new skills linked to the three main languages used: music, cinema, and theatre.

Through its multi-lingual approach, "Animare Comunità" aims to use culture as a means of meeting and supporting young people in the mountain communities surrounding the Municipality of Saluzzo. The direct involvement of young people in a cultural space allows them to understand the dynamics of use and management and replicate them in similar places within their respective territories.

Thanks to the encounter with associations in the world of culture and professionals in the sector, the participants embarked on a path that enabled them to understand how to use culture as a tool to support their community of origin. Moreover, given the different territorial backgrounds of the actors involved, the project aims to create a new network of supportive communities able to support each other in case of need.

The structure of the project is based on the physical encounter between the different realities that have worked to organise events in which to design and then return new cultural products to the community.

Website
www.ratatoj.it

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Cultivating the Anthropocene in the African neighbourhood of Athens.

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Anasa Cultural Center

Greece

Anasa Cultural Center is an AfroCentric arts and culture grassroot organisation that for the past decade has been disseminating arts from the African continent and its diaspora to Greek citizens as well as people of African descent living, working and growing up in Greece.

Anasa goes Kypseli project will bring together local communities and local organisations under the same roof to collaborate and reshape the way the African population in Greece is representing itself in society and how it can establish stronger relationships with Greek citizens.

The multicultural environment that it has fostered has shifted the perspective of racial equality in Greece, as well as raised the visibility of the talent and capabilities of the migrant population as a whole (including second-generation, refugees, and more).

Shifting its management goals by focusing on passing on all the expertise that it has gathered throughout the years to the communities in focus by offering capacity building and self-organisation opportunities to African communities, either as legal entities or non-formal groups, and providing a common space for planning and interacting, whilst sharing ideas and co-organising events for youth and toddlers.

This project is a new beginning for Anasa to take on the responsibility of disseminating and transmitting knowledge, resources and best practices in order to empower local Africans to be active in their own neighbourhood.

http://www.anasa.org.gr/

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AMONG - Supporting young professionals through a holistic program, aiming at achieving a balance between personal and professional life.

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Youthnest NGO

Greece

The programme “together” invites 150 young people of Thessaloniki with professional experience, regardless of industry, to join a holistic empowering 5-month program, aiming at enhancing their social sustainability at a local level.

By engaging in this 4-pillar program the participants will gain skills that will help them be resilient in social and professional challenges, be more adaptive to changes, and balance between personal and professional life. The program, adapted to the needs of the post-pandemic society, will support them in their professional skills, by developing their network and fostering new opportunities through their interference with other communities and the city itself.

Creating an active and coherent community of like-minded individuals and a culture of balance between professional and personal life will be achieved through the organisation of a series of community building, capacity building, networking, and well-being events, promoting sociocultural awareness and sustainability in the city of Thessaloniki.

https://among.gr/en/

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A multimedia art/science/tech event bringing together specialists and the general public

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Our Bio-Tech Planet: the Future of Plants and Humans

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Art Science Node (ASN)

Germany

Bio-Tech Planet: Future of Plants and Humans is a multimedia event bringing together scientists, artists, and the public to tackle the urgent question of how to curb our environmental crisis curve through learning from plants and their mechanisms. Interdisciplinary performances, multimedia artworks, panel discussions, and workshops centred around biotechnology, plants, and humans will travel across the EU as a stirring cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary event to propose solutions to and ask questions around confronting our planet’s daunting environmental future.

Interdisciplinary performances, multimedia artworks, stimulating debates, molecular cooking workshops and more will travel across the EU as a stirring cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary event to propose solutions to and ask questions around confronting our planet’s future. Organic data storage, sustainable material for nutritional extraction, the fight against climate change and hunger, the possibility of life on new planets, and interspecies communication are some of the things to explore in the ASN end-of-year event.

This is a multimedia event that uses trans-disciplinary means to communicate a message of sustainability through optimising our plant/human rapport in the context of an urgent need for change. Through the event and its various branches, ASN and partners are accessing the general public by democratising knowledge as a culture through the use of an art/science alliance. The engagement of these two engines of creativity in stunning venues across Europe will bring home our message through beauty and innovation. The event is the catalyst for change and knowledge dissemination which will continue to sprout beyond the end of the happening.

https://artscience-node.com/

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A gastronomic walking tour of local restaurants to encourage the reduction of food-waste and share culture through cuisine.

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"Food for Thought" - Sustainable, Local, Gastronomic Walking Tours

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InCommOn- Innovative Communities Onwards

Greece

“Food for Thought” is an event comprising sustainable gastronomic walking tours of restaurants in Thessaloniki (selected by UNESCO as a ‘Creative City of Gastronomy’) in which participants sample meals made from ‘leftovers’.  The wider project aims to support the emergence of a shared local culture of environmental and social sustainability via the culture of cuisine. It is implemented through ongoing co-design of a community-led series of activities via the ‘Kyklos’ (meaning ‘Circle’ in Greek) Urban Sustainability and Circularity Lab.

The project is a part of an ongoing information and awareness campaign about food waste, approached via the lens of the culture of food and the art of gastronomy. It aims to foster broad cultural transformation via empowering residents to work towards social, economic and environmental sustainability.

The long-term goal of the project is to work with restaurants, to encourage, support, train and empower them to find ways to reduce food-waste and to reduce the carbon footprint of their consumption habits while producing creative and high quality gastronomy.

The citizens will benefit from the walking tours and learn to reduce their food waste and inform and encourage others to make changes in their habits to lessen their environmental impact- while creating tasty meals and partaking in the culture of cuisine. Making long term behavioural changes around food surplus and food disposal.

The “Food for Thought” project is the development and continuation of a very successful pilot event which was the culmination of a series of activities co-created with local residents and restaurants on ‘Mindful Consumption’.

https://incommon.gr/

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Educadora ONLUS Cecchi Point

Turin

Rifiò collects disgarded or 'past-due-date" vegetables that are no longer suitable for human consumption and uses them to regenerate plants. Once these plants flower, they then provide food for pollinators.  Thanks to these regenerated plants Rifiò is creating a pollinators' garden in Cecchi Point Multicultural Hub courtyard and distributing plants in reused plastic boxes to the people of the neighbourhood.

While the project is aimed at reducing food waste, Rifiò adds a further step, by giving a new life even to vegetables that are unsuitable for human consumption, at the same time creating a habitat for pollinators. As well as raising awareness about pollinators' biodiversity, the role of pollinators in the ecosystem and in agriculture, and the importance of reducing food waste.

An estimated impact through the use of proper quantitative and qualitative indicators would be;  1 pollinators' garden created will involve around 30 young people/kids and trained around 800 people during the project. This includes open-air market customers and vendors, associations members, citizens that will adopt pollinator-friendly plant boxes and pots.

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/RifioAlCecchi

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/educadora.onlus/

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a reading group and workshop aimed at children and families

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Yo no aparezco en este cuento (I don’t appear in this story)

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The Green Parrot

Spain

Formed by The Green Parrot and the artistic collective Ruta de Autor, Yo no aparezco en este cuento is a reading group and a storytelling workshop aimed at children and families, which is born out of the desire to readdress stories that have been told to us as children and the urgent need to diversify content that is not inclusive, to inspire personal and societal transformation by creating a more equal society through representation.

Working with artists and cultural practitioners who are specialists in the field, we approach reading and listening through an open, and non-prescriptive artistic vision. It combats racism, confronts socio-economic inequalities and its impacts, looks at gender through a spectrum of changing family models and roles, and it applies a decolonial lens through which we look at migration in the territory.

https://thegreenparrot.org/

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An activist and artistic initiative that explores the role of older women in their urban communities.

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Naš Most Zenica

Bosnia and Herzegovina

‘Urban Herstories’ is an audio map of memories of older women living in Zenica. The goal of the initiative is to capture and explore the female perspective on social, political, urbanistic, and personal changes in urban post-communist environments. Based on a previously implemented international project, activists continue to gather personal stories of older women related to mapped locations in Zenica. The stories are part of an audio guide called ‘Female Face of Zenica’.

The stories are, among other things, related to their memories of growing up in socialist Yugoslavia, the historical attitude towards women, the impact of transition on urban change in the city, and aging in post-war BiH. In addition to personal memories, the stories also contain interesting information about important and insufficiently known women in the history of BiH and the city of Zenica.

This has supported the efforts of women, especially the elderly, to become more visible in public space. The project also opened the space for introducing unknown but important women's experiences into the history of Zenica.

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/nasmostzenica/

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Italian museums, historical buildings, and cultural institutions open their doors at extraordinary times

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Club Silencio

Italy

Una notte al Museo is a format of events that is characterised by the opening in the evening time slot of Piedmontese museums where, alongside the traditional visit, the public can enjoy refreshment beverages with background music and artistic performances. It is the union of cultural and recreational moments, which uses modern and more familiar languages for the younger generation to enrich their cultural knowledge and also reveals the beauty of the institutions to return outside the framework of the events.

The project Una notte al Museo was born in 2017 as a response to a double need that was felt by cultural institutions and observed by young people (especially between the ages of 20 and 35).

For institutions emerged the need to attract and keep a young audience, the urgent need to update their image, and, consequently, their communication/brand strategies, using tools and languages ​​that are closer to a young audience, which at the same time would be economically sustainable.

On the other hand, as a result of observing and analysing Italian social and cultural trends, it became necessary to raise the awareness of the young population about the cultural heritage present on the territory, adapt the territorial cultural offer and its accessibility to modern modalities of social interaction.

Una Notte al Museo project intends to: - transform Turin and Piedmont museums into lively, rich, and inclusive cultural centers through the organization of sustainable events that enhance historical and artistic heritage.

https://clubsilencio.it/

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Co-design workshops aimed at realising digital products useful to local organisations operating in the socio-cultural field.

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CRHACK LAB F4D

Italy

The Social Hackademy ties together the concepts of education, digitisation, and community development, as it aims at training young people (student, unemployed or employed in social organisations) to put the skills acquired at the service of civil society and become protagonists of sustainable change.

The Social Hackademy project offers free workshops aimed at creating digital products for local organisations operating in the socio-cultural field. From 2021, in-person and online workshops for the development of digital skills will be held for young people aged between 16 and 35 who live in Umbria (Italy). The associations involved are usually social-cultural oriented and thanks to this project can implement their innovative ideas in many fields such as civic participation, sustainability, health and disabilities, education, culture or arts.

The workshops can have an impact on community development on three levels. Firstly, the young participants have the opportunity to increase their digital skills and network with local entities, while also increasing their awareness of sustainable development. Secondly, the social associations involved can create innovative digital products that serve their objectives; they usually work in the field of social sustainability and cover many areas such as civic participation, health, and disability, education and culture, or arts. Finally, the concrete digital outcomes produced have the potential to reach many members of the local community, raise awareness on crucial issues such as physical and mental health or gender equality, and encourage positive social behaviour.

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/crhacklabfoligno4d/

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The journey of the Wool - from sheep to sustainable garments, home textiles and art

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AMAR - Associação Mover Alentejo Rural

Portugal

The wool route aims to bring awareness to people of all ages of the importance of wool as a versatile resource. We aim to recreate the resilient mindset of the ancestors, by exploring this sustainable raw material and its value, through teaching various textile techniques, like felting and spinning, including the preparation of raw wool, so we can encourage people to explore their creativity, and at the same time learn about sustainability, using local resources, learning ancient skills, all aiming to contribute towards a regenerative cultural shift.

The aim of the project is to equip people with wool-handling skills that would help strengthen their self-confidence, self-expression, and resilience, and widen their horizons about healthy and regenerative lifestyles. The contact with this ancient craft and with the elderly as the ones passing the knowledge and skills should promote generational and cultural exchange as well as mutual appreciation and understanding between rural and urban areas with their different potentials.

For centuries, the sheep had a very important economic and ecological role, not only in Portugal but in many countries, all over the world. It was common for the rural people to process the wool of their sheep by knitting, stitching and weaving, including all the processes of shearing, washing, carding, and plant dying. Today, this culture of sustainable behaviour and ancient craft skills are nearly extinct. It is important to save such cultural heritage and not only to teach such skills but also to interpret them in a modern sense and create contemporary handicrafts and art pieces.

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2049913825285622/

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Recollection of significant cultural establishers acting in challenging times

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Georgi Kaloyanchev Foundation- Kala

Bulgaria

Informational sign board to revive and remember Bulgarian cultural figures who established cultural life in challenging times in history. Every signboard will inform about a significant cultural figure, the difficulty of the time he/she was living, their life work, and, what they left behind.

The project aims to inspire young people, living in times of pandemic and war, that culture and art are established in difficult times, and they influence people’s behaviour. The challenging times create strong people and if we look back in history, we can see significant cultural figures who were striving to achieve their life's work in the face of difficulty and resistance. And they have succeeded to retain cultural heritage, masterpieces, theatres, literature and art in all its forms despite the hardship.

By showing the fortune of the significant cultural establishments we share with the youth that every person goes through hard and heavy times and we are changing their mindset from “culture impossible” to “culture possible” in the current existing moment. The sustainability of culture is based on the awareness that art impacts on people’s behaviour.

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Art events consciously feed the body, the mind, and the soul of a community

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Il Laboratorio C.T.M. A.P.S.

Italy

The Stage-to-Table project, following the same principle of Farm-to-Table food, aims to act locally, raising cultural, civic and food awareness by merging the performative arts, a shared meals and collective reflections. Artists who deal with the topic of sustainability, in its entire spectrum, will use different expression media to encourage the tangible thought and action of the whole community of Mirafiori Sud (one of the biggest and most populous neighbourhoods in Torino)

Taking into account the whole concept of sustainability, aspiring to realise, regular, free entrance events for everyone, without limitation of age, origin, belief, background, language, and ability, to participate in this community.

The Stage-to-Table project remains socially, emotionally, and linguistically, sustainable and accessible to all and aims to increase the awareness of the inhabitants of Mirafiori neighbourhood, about sustainability, focusing on food and nutritional education in relation to the body and to the mind.

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/cpgtorino/

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/cpgtorino

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An event lead by the Carulla Foundation and its Museum of Rural Life, for Cultural Education for Sustainability

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Museum of Rural Life (Carulla Foundation)

Spain

The Festival of Education for Sustainability is a proposal from the Museum of Rural Life (Carulla Foundation) from l’Espluga de Francolí (Conca de Barberà, Catalunya). During the last 4 years Museum of Rural Life has become the Cultural Centre of reference, in one of Catalonia’s less populated counties, and is leading this cutting-edge festival about Education for Sustainability. FES aims to address a variety of publics: educational, families, or general and specialised.

With “education for sustainability or ecoliteracy” as its strategic positioning it is a space that combines history and memory (museum of the rural world) with reflection, debate, and social participation (cultural centre).

The FES is a festival that kicks off at the beginning of the school year, presents the Museum’s educational proposal to the teaching community as well as creating a space for inspiration, knowledge and meeting of projects and proposals related to cultural education for sustainability. The festival aims to be a place to weave alliances between the educational and leisure communities with the professionals of the arts and culture.

The Festival acquires real relevance at the moment that as a society we need to rethink our lifestyle and raise sustainable alternatives. It is a long-term process that must be taught from an early age, so there are spaces and activities for all ages.  It is aimed at all those interested in the transformational power of culture. So far, it has had three editions: 2019, 2020 and 2021.

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/fundaciocarulla

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/fundaciocarulla/

Twitter

https://twitter.com/FundacioCarulla

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Empowering urban people to adopt and cultivate edible mushrooms for self-sustainability and become a member of a mushroom-learning network

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Emergent Foundation

Hungary

Emergent Foundation aims to empower urban homestead growers from Budapest (Hungary) and its agglomeration area for mushroom cultivation in a shared network that is based on sustainable mushroom growing kits and community learning encounters/spaces - using locally-sourced materials, ceramic pots designed for mushroom cultivation, and the support of local citizens and refugee persons.

Emergent Foundation implements this project in a social-artistic way, where urban mushroom growers can be involved in the whole process of mushroom cultivation, like creating/decorating their mushroom pots, preparation of raw materials, mixing the mushroom culture, taking care of the growing mycelium, harvesting and restarting the process by recycling in our community and the “Fair-y Circles” movement. The objective is to reach more people, by making it visible and recognized on the national and European level as an inspiration for others about sustainable and artistic ways of urban food system building through the example of mushrooms.

The "Fair-y Circles" movement works for the self-organisation of civil mycologists to invigorate the movements of food sovereignty, environmental restoration, and community resilience development. It is initiating and mentoring collective facilities for food (mainly mushroom) production. It has a socio-economic experiment function to enhance the imagination of systems (food, knowledge, natural resources) based on a solidarity economy. It practically offers a space for community-based art and agroecological actions.

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/gombafonalosszekot

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/boszorkanykorok/

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Designing workshops and a manual for comic journalism young people, while discussing environmental migration

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Athens Comics Library

Greece

How many of us know the effects of climate change, according to recent forecast models? The studies indicate a possibility that climate change will lead more than 143 million people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to become environmental migrants by 2050?

This project is to improve our information, awareness, and resilience to the new waves of environmental migrants. The main aim of the program would be to attract and engage youth in climate awareness and to accelerate action for an issue that affects everyone. By engaging young audiences and providing them with the knowledge, but also creative tools not only to participate in the conversation, but to take action as well.  Through a series of comics journalism workshops they can discuss, reflect and, above all, envision the future of the planet and the people who inhabit it.

The participants will also create their own comic reportages that will be later published through the channels. In addition, a digital manual on how comics journalism can be used as an efficient tool to raise awareness and mobilise youth about climate change in general and climate migration in particular will be available to all.

Website

https://athenscomicslibrary.gr/

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Ratatoj  APS

Italy

The "Famiglie in Gioco” (Families in the Game) project aims to involve families in the Saluzzo’s area in order to increase the sense of community through games, conceived as a tool to promote new and more sustainable ways of promoting and enjoying local culture, art and tourism. Through digital development and gamification, parents and children will be accompanied through a process of co-designing a video-game capable of involving even the youngest in participatory and conscious cultural paths.

The aim of creating a video-game is to promote the historical and cultural contents of the city of Saluzzo in a sustainable way. Through a coordination table, which will guide the participants in the processes of co-design and co-creation of the video game, the families will also participate in a training course on digital tool awareness.

The project objectives aim at creating a greater sense of aggregation and community among local families, diversify skills through greater awareness of digital media, and develop new ways of social activation and cultural fruition through the innovative tool of gamification.

Website

https://www.ratatoj.it/

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/ratatoj

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/ratatoj/

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Accessible animation based on children's drawings that are inspired by an intergenerational project of oral history in Greek islands.

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From One Generation to the Next, Animation

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From One Generation to the Next, Animation

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Plegma

Greece

The “From one generation to the next” project is an intergenerational project that aims at recording traditional stories while promoting the necessity of the preservation of intangible heritage. The project targets children and elders with a central focus on offering an enriching cultural experience to the most vulnerable and marginalised audiences. The children's drawings, which are inspired by the stories recorded by the elderly, become works of art, which acquire movement and become animation accessible for the hearing and vision impaired

The action aims to bring children from 5 to 8 years old in contact with elderly people. The children, with their teachers and with the help of the historian, who has the scientific supervision of the program, do interviews with the elderly and then develop works of art. The main objective of the program is to familiarise children with the methodology of oral history, and enable them to better value intangible heritage.

The project also aims at re-strengthening the bond between young and old generations, a bond that used to be stronger prior to the introduction of new technologies in our societies. In addition to that, the quality time spent with the children will bring joy and optimism to the elderly making them feel useful in society by conveying their knowledge.

Website

https://www.plegma.org/

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/plegma/

Instagram

https://twitter.com/plegma2014

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An activity for children which uses art as a medium to explore sustainability in the local community

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Nordisk Teatr Laboratorium

Denmark

Ildflueakademiet (The Firefly Academy) is an activity aimed at children and youth in the local neighbourhood Trekanten in Holstebro. The activity uses artistic languages to facilitate a learning process about sustainability in the local communities. The artistic language and the focus on reimagining the neighbourhood helps to build bridges between the different cultures of the participants and between the Trekanten community of today and the Trekanten community of tomorrow, with the goal of creating a sustainable and inclusive future.

In collaboration with Nordic Theater Laboratory and local organisations and community, children and youths in the area are called in to explore this artistic world. The exploration is divided in different branches; music, dance, painting and plastic arts. The theme for this year is “my home”, and the focus is on reimagining the home. What is my home? What are our dreams for the future? What makes my home valuable? These questions allow us to touch on the bigger question: what is sustainable on a local scale?

We try to address the question both theoretically and practically. Theoretically:  learning through voicing thoughts, learning from specific organisations and reflecting. Practically:reflect on the themes and lessons received through expressing ourselves in art and create symbolic work that embody mentioned reflections.

The work, the process, the knowledge and the results are shared to raise awareness.

Website

https://odinteatret.dk/nordisk-teaterlaboratorium/

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Aging in Dignity - Active and fulfilled life or discrimination, negligence, and isolation

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Cultural and Information Centre of Zagreb

Croatia

A project is dedicated to ageing; to old and retired people leading active and fulfilled lives. The goal is to focus on creating a healthy society where the old population is not left on the sidelines. Discursive programs consist of panels, discussions, a film, and open talks under the title "No one prepares you for old age" to try and raise awareness of the quality of life and lifestyle of the old population. The project aims to target a young population to indicate the problem at hand.

Creating a healthy society and secure support for old people to ensure a fulfilled life where one can grow old with dignity.

Panels and talks are arranged in cooperation with famous Croatian artists, writers, models, directors, activists, politicians, and financial experts who still, despite their age, have very active and fulfilled lives. Topics such as; can old people be useful? negligence and injustice – a story on female activism in the context of ageing, how to prepare for ageing: financially and economically, and health, socialisation, and diet, will be among the key discussion points during the panel.

The film by the author and the panel member Danijela Stanojevic, “Our House” tells us about parents and children. It brings the audience's attention to her time with her old parents in their summer house on island Pag.

Website

https://www.kic.hr/

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/kiczgb/

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Creation and the processes of creation as a privileged moment for pedagogy

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En Lugar de Creación

Spain

In relation to the new pedagogical tools that we are creating and developing in schools during their school hours, within our open process of creation. This development phase of the project profiles are dedicated to research on the pedagogical experience in creation and fundamental to objectivity. The field work will systematise data and documentation, in order to validate and implement this practice to put it at the service of the educational system. Fully favouring the improvement and social development and the creation of answers to certain problems that affect our society.

The research on the pedagogical experience in creation, with the following phases:

- Creation of a theoretical framework and first approach to the subject through an evaluation questionnaire

- Creation of the BASIC Thinkers training certificate for trainers

- Design of the first case study that demonstrates the validity of carrying out the activity

- Publication of the first article on this research

- Call for thinkers on the move

Elaboration of training contents and methodologies through the contributions of artists involved in creation processes and their sharing, as well as mediators and people working with groups at risk of exclusion.

Focusing on the work of reflection, diffusion and dissemination of the knowledge put into practice in the training of individuals, groups, collectives with the sharing of experiences to improve the performance of the training, their skills and synergies.

Website

https://www.enlugardecreacion.org/

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069210140604

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A project which utilises theatre to strengthen ties between neighbours and strengthen our connection with nature

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Asociación Cultural La Horizontal

Spain

City life leaves us little time for social encounters and isolates us from the nature that sustains us.  Barrio Reberde is a La Horizontal project which aims to use art and theatre as a vehicle for rethinking how we want to live, to learn about alternatives to socio-ecological problems, and to intervene as a community in our neighbourhood, Vallecas.

Our project seeks to create spaces for reflection and creation at a community level that extend outward to the neighbourhood via artistic interventions of theatre and re-naturalisation in public spaces.

We want to encourage the neighbourhood community through three days of workshops which make use of theatrical tools to help neighbours connect with their vulnerability and become aware of their interdependence and eco-dependence.

These workshops lead up to the second Ecofeminist Meeting where participants exhibit and perform their artistic work prepared during the previous weeks.

With this initiative, we aim to invite reflection from the streets and re-occupy public space, which has lost its community identity.

Our ultimate goal is to make a city like Madrid more habitable, and more liveable, by rethinking our daily lives through the prism of ecofeminism and social ecology.

Website

https://lahorizontal.net/

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/RRSSHorizontal/

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Valuing the importance of extensive goat farming in the Sierra de Gredos landscape

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Rural Laboratory for Goatherds -2nd edition

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Rural Laboratory for Goatherds -2nd edition

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Asociación Cultural El Cinorrio

Spain

The El Cinorrio laboratory was born as a deeply contextual project, linked to the territory and the community, which in turn forms part of the production process of the cultural actions that are carried out. The progressive disappearance of goatherds (and goats) in our area motivates people from different backgrounds to work together against the problems that threaten this sector. We use culture and art as a means to create a community linked to these objectives.

La Vera is a region made up of 19 little towns that share very similar cultural traits. Gastronomy, architecture, festivals, and musical folklore are some of the tourist attractions. There is livestock activity, historically marked by the role of goatherds. The Gredos' goatherd is in danger of extinction. The demands of goatherds have to be amplified. It is therefore necessary to actively listen to these agents from the towns of the region. It is worth noting, among others, the ecological function of the traditional goatherd, its role as an actor of sustainability in the landscape of the mountains and as a regulator of a balanced rural ecosystem.

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/elcinorrio/

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/el_cinorrio/

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FRUSKA in Ferencváros- Design workshops for Disadvantaged Girls

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FRUSKA in Ferencváros- Design workshops for Disadvantaged Girls

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Ferencváros Community and Cultural Centre

(Ferencvárosi Művelődési Központ és Színház)

Hungary

Ferencváros Community and Cultural Centre introduce FRUSKA, a design workshop program for disadvantaged young girls aged 10-18, helping participants grow up to be confident, competent, resilient adults.

Partnering with MOME and Konkáv Foundation, the Ferencváros Community and Cultural Centre aims to bring social design program, FRUSKA, to a heterogenous district of Budapest to promote social mobility and integration of disadvantaged girls, spread the notion of sustainability and expand the profile of the cultural centre. Through FRUSKA, participants strengthen their confidence and technical skills, build networks through peer mentorship and experience that their opinions matter, and thus help them integrate in the local community and society at large.

The program targets girls from disadvantaged backgrounds and minorities, who have limited access to quality education and the development of coping skills. At the end of the process they design and create their own objects, and through this process, they gain valuable builder, communicational and coping skills, as well as strengthen their roles as local young urban changemakers. It also helps create social dialogue within different demographic groups of this diverse neighbourhood.

Website

http://www.fmkportal.hu/

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/fmkportal/

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/fmk_es_intezmenyei/

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Community engagement actions, participative intercultural performances, and proactive inclusion of minoritarian communities through a Performing Art Festival

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BILOURA Intercultural Arts Collective

Italy

POLIMORFA project is located in a decentralised, rural area of the Italian Alps heavily lacking cultural offer. The performing arts festival hosts variegated arts forms, intercultural art residencies and participative performances, engaging indigenous, new citizens and migrants in organising and in doing cultural events. In the horizon of community development the project aims to boost the community engagement actions, improving substantiality of participative performances and proactive inclusion of minoritarian communities (migrants, LGBT+, etc) and social fragilities through arts.

The cultural interventions of BILOURA in the area are orientated to diffuse performing arts in a so-called community-art perspective and to create occupational opportunities in the field of art and culture.

The performing arts collective organizes performances and cultural events to contribute to the well-being of the community and to intervene culturally for the dialogue between different sub-communities (locals, new citizens, migrants, queer) and generations. Furthermore it creates intercultural exchanges by inviting international artists for residencies in order to meet, exchange and create together with the local community.

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/biloura/

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FRUSKA in Józsefváros- design workshops for disadvantaged girls

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Gólya Community House and Cooperative

Hungary

Gólya Community Centre introduces FRUSKA, a design workshop program for disadvantaged young girls aged 10-18, helping participants grow up to be confident, competent, resilient adults.

Józsefváros (8th district of Budapest) is one the city’s most densely populated, culturally, socio-economically, and demographically extremely heterogeneous neighbourhood that has been going through a strong gentrification process in the last 8-10 years.

There is significant gender imbalance and disproportion of age groups in the district with 15% of underage inhabitants and 54% women), creating a large group of vulnerable young and preteen women.

Website

http://golyapresszo.hu/

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The Cottage of Unfinished Feelings (Die Hütte der unerledigte Gefühle)

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The Cottage of Unfinished Feelings (Die Hütte der unerledigte Gefühle)

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LandKunstLeben e.V

Germany

The Cottage of Unfinished Feelings is a project that aims to bring cultural life back to the rural area of Eastern Brandenburg after the global pandemic.

"The Cottage of Unfinished Feelings" is a social-cultural project which will take part in Eastern Brandenburg, in the municipality of Steinhofel.  The project is dedicated to reflecting on the feelings that locals in rural areas of Germany experienced during the Codiv-19 pandemic.  The project will involve local citizens of Steinhofel, young artists and researchers from local areas as well as from Berlin/Brandenburg.

A European Solidarity Corps program members of the art association LandKunstLeben e.V. in Eastern Brandenburg, who come from different countries to share their ideas and culture as well as to get to know more about German/European culture.

A year-long project related to art, cultural differences, gardening, ecology, and sustainability.  As the youngest members of our village (Buchholz, Steinhofel), we see it as our task to bring interesting activities and projects to the local community.

Website

https://www.landkunstleben.de/

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/landkunstleben/

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All the cultural events in Albania will be promoted in a website

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The cultural events in Albania in one click

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The cultural events in Albania in one click

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Informal group "Ne per Artin"/"We for Art"

Albania

The platform is where you can find all the cultural activities in Albania with one click. We are building a platform to promote all theatrical performances, movies, musical activities, book promotions, etc. in Albania in the form of a calendar for every day of the week. We will also place an almanac for marked historical days related to art. One of the other important points will be the evaluation of cultural activities by different people.

The platform is where you can find all the cultural activities in Albania with one click. We are building a platform to promote all theatrical performances, movies, musical activities, book promotions, etc. in Albania in the form of a calendar for every day of the week. We will also place an almanac for marked historical days related to art. One of the other important points will be the evaluation of cultural activities by different people.

This project gains special importance because it will be a passport to cultural activities in Albania, which will reflect all activities in each city, as we consider art an important form of education, especially for young people. It will also serve as a platform for the promotion of activities, cultural centres, and public or private art institutions.

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Ur/ca Casa Laboratorio

Italy

The project proposes the installation of four spin-bikes connected to the electrical system of the museum "Pinacoteca Matteo Olivero" in order to raise awareness about sustainability and stimulate active participation of visitors.

The museum “Pinacoteca Matteo Olivero” of Saluzzo (CN) will be the first Italian museum to exploit eco-sustainable technology generated by the pedalling of visitors to illuminate some paintings. The installation of four spin-bikes connected to the electrical system, one per exhibit hall, aims at stimulating the active participation of the public and raises awareness on the theme of sustainability.

“Ur/Ca Casa Laboratorio” has collaborated for years with the theatre association “Mulino ad Arte” of Piossasco (CN), which released 2019 a new format called “Teatro a Pedali”. The main idea is to increase public engagement and to promote a reflection on sustainability.

The new format allows the electrical supply of the theatrical production through a system of electrical co-generation thanks to the installation of bikes connected to an electric storage system that the audience rides before and during the show. Since 2021, our association has run the “Pinacoteca Matteo Olivero”, a museum dedicated to a local painter.

The project plans the installation of four spin bikes connected to the electrical system of the Pinacoteca, one per each exhibit hall of the museum that will allow the visitors to light up to two paintings each.

The main aim of the project is to sensitise the visitors about the themes of sustainable energy, enhancing the role that the contribution of the individual plays when it comes to good environmental practice. On the other hand, enjoying the cultural heritage that the museum hosts in a new, conscious way, will allow more people to approach the institution of the museum.

Website
https://ur-ca.it/

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An activist and artistic initiative that explores the role of older women in their urban communities.

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Naš Most Zenica

Bosnia and Herzegovina

‘Urban Herstories’ is an audio map of memories of older women living in Zenica. The goal of the initiative is to capture and explore the female perspective on social, political, urbanistic, and personal changes in urban post-communist environments. Based on a previously implemented international project, activists continue to gather personal stories of older women related to mapped locations in Zenica. The stories are part of an audio guide called ‘Female Face of Zenica’.

The stories are, among other things, related to their memories of growing up in socialist Yugoslavia, the historical attitude towards women, the impact of transition on urban change in the city, and aging in post-war BiH. In addition to personal memories, the stories also contain interesting information about important and insufficiently known women in the history of BiH and the city of Zenica.

This has supported the efforts of women, especially the elderly, to become more visible in public space. The project also opened the space for introducing unknown but important women's experiences into the history of Zenica.

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/nasmostzenica/

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Awareness & pattern change/mind shift:                                        Art & culture can shape how people think and influence their behaviours, also in relation to sustainability.  

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Awareness & pattern change/mind shift:                                        Art & culture can shape how people think and influence their behaviours, also in relation to sustainability.  