● European Artizen Initiative

Dedale (FR)

Altart (RO), Expeditio (ME), ProstoRož (SL), Idensitat (ES), Transforma (PT), WAAG Society (NL), Sinapolis (CN)

State of the art

In the context of growing urbanization, European cities have to face an acceleration of social, ecological and economic challenges and fragmentation. Mutations are crystalized in European urban territories.

Description of the project

In these contexts, more and more inhabitants are taking on these transformations, moving deeply the traditional top-down process to a bottomup approach, calling for new governance models, developing actions on the ground. European Artizen Initiative aimed to reinforce cultural and creative players’ role in the city, empowering citizens on issues related to sustainability and alternative ways of city making while linking European professionals to create new spaces for cooperation. The project has contributed to environmental sustainability by imagining and experimenting new ways to design a better and more inclusive, creative and sustainable city, reinforcing cultural and creative players’ skills to adapt to the growing needs of cobuilding with citizens regarding sustainable issues while bringing awareness and empowering inhabitants and local organisations to ecological transition,

Projects activities have intended to raise citizens’ awareness on all urban ecological main challenges through cultural and artistic activities.

Creative Europe’s support

Thanks to the support of Creative Europe, the ARTIZEN project led to the creation of a professional pool of cultural and creative stakeholders able to contribute to new urban projects at European and international scales.

#public space #citizens’ empowerment #urban space #bottom-up approaches #new governances

Beyond Environmental Sustainability

ARTIZEN contributed to empowering citizens, artists and cultural players to use digital tools (city design, city knowledge, citizen engagement, crowdsourcing). Its Transmit Memory workshop prompted inhabitants to create a range of digital media projects and digital applications for storytelling.

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