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TIMELINE PROJECT

ACTIVITIES

Future DiverCities will involve a range of activities for artists, members of the local communities, the public and more. The programme will be curated under four holistic themes Future DiverCitizens, Future DiverSocieties, Future DiverStructures, Future DiverSystems.

Over the course of the programme, events will include
• a series of 22 labs incubating collaborative artwork in urban context.
• curated training programmes on community engagement for artists as social agents of change
• a series of conferences and debates to share and exchange with a wider community of cultural professionals and city players

The event programme will be supported by and contribute to
• The creation of innovative digital tools looking closely at the urban environment through various creative processes.
• Research into new cooperative models for digital artistic distribution in Europe, aiming at fairer economical model for the artists.

Labs and urban creative interventions

Our labs take different formats but they all act as incubators, creative spaces for experimentation with collaborative artwork, spaces to test, develop and create new ideas. Each community lab, citizen workshop or artistic event will explore the various ways artists and creatives can respond to specific urban challenges, involving residents and communities in the co-creation processes.

Creative Social Innovation

Future DiverCities Creative Social Innovation programme aims to train a generation of artists and social players across European cities to deliver long-term community projects that can empower individuals, improve lives and strengthen communities. The programme focuses on work with marginalised urban communities, starting with a study phase (2016-2017) identifying the target groups in the partnership cities and learning from the local social players. The methodology will be built on the analysis of the European good practices in order to design and deliver in 2018-2019 an advanced training that will incorporate new skills and creative approaches.

3)PublicEvents

Seminars and dissemination events

Seminars invite artists, EU partners, policy-makers, creative organisations and stakeholders from across the sector to exchange on Future DiverCities thematics and results to share perspectives and influence future-thinking. We want to create a strong new vision, consisting of as many points of view as possible, exploring key topics that support the conditions for a sustainable and creative urban development, such as inclusive approaches to cultural innovation, alternative economic models or citizens participation.

Digital Products

Future DiverCities digital products aim at examining the digital sharing of multimedia content in Europe, contributing to a smart culture with creative digital tools benefitting the urban ecosystem, and supporting alternative economic models with open and free access to content for users but with a guaranteed remuneration of authors.

Divercities app

City Light Orchestra Device