● Cultures for Resilience

Atelier d’Architecture Autogeree - AAA (FR)

Asociaţia Tranzit.ro (RO), Stichting Casco (NL)

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Faced with the ecological emergency, cities need to drastically reduce their C02 emissions and prepare for future challenges (heat waves, agricultural droughts, floods). The environmental consequences to come are likely to increase inequalities, weaken social cohesion and reinforce ecological segregation: rich/poor, North/South, central/periphery.

Description of the project

In response to an increasing sense of urgency produced by climate change, C4R aims to strengthen the actions of a wide range of actors (citizens, professionals of the creative and cultural sector, public administrations, local associations) working on environmental and urban resilience issues. The C4R project proposes a holistic approach using immersive cultural practices and collaborative tools as bridges to increase resilience, diversify modes of involvement in "territorial empowerment" and promote capacity building, creativity and education in peripheral territories. Cultural practitioners’ roles bring critical and creative perspectives on existing practices, stimulate changes in local stakeholders’ mind-sets in different contexts, and enhance their resilience agency.

We need to increase the resilience of European cities and neighbourghoods, their capacity to adapt and recover. Culture appears to be a structural tool for supporting resilience.

Creative Europe’s support

C4R will strengthen and connect cultural projects engaging with local resilience dynamics in peripheral territories. Creative Europe offers the occasion to formalise a long-term trans-disciplinary collaboration for co-conceiving the tools necessary for this process (mapping actors, setting up governance, residency programmes training and economic models…).

#public space #urban resilience #peripheries #commons governance #care

Beyond Environmental Sustainability

The equality principle is embedded in the whole participative nature of the project. Special attention is given to gender both in terms of the profile of participants and the understanding of resilience through the lens of feminist ‘ethics of care’.

Contact

c4r.info Creative Europe Project Results