● HUMAN CITIES - Creative works with small and remote places (SMOTIES

Creative works with small and remote places

Politecnico di Milano (IT)

Cité du Design de Saint-Etienne (FR), Clear Village (UK), FH Joanneum (AT), Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (SI), Estonian Association of Designers (EE), University of the Aegean (GR), Zamek Cieszyn (PL), University of Madeira (PT), Alternance SLF (IS).

State of the art

SMOTIES works on remote and rural areas that are in need of actions. These include, among others, the regeneration of public spaces through local engagement and participation.

Description of the project

Following the previous Human Cities project focusing on urban contexts, SMOTIES aims at enhancing local material and immaterial culture in small and remote European places starting from existing potentialities. It takes a step further in the landscape of bottom-up and grassroots approaches, by involving creatives, local authorities, innovative companies, territorial actors, the third sector and representatives of active citizenship towards infrastructural changes. SMOTIES will ensure sustainable impacts by building capacity, engaging local creative communities, implementing training and education activities, developing new networks and identifying long-term funding models that will guarantee cultural, social and economic developments.

We are defining a "geography of opportunities" to better understand and map issues, trends, potentialities and creative resources for European rural and remote places.

Creative Europe’s support

The collection of best practices and bottom-up initiative from the 10 partner countries could serve to address local interventions towards a wider panorama of transformation, so to define a sort of Human Cities Network response to cultural and creative actions in small and remote places in Europe.

#public space #rural spaces #social innovation #speculative design #grassroots approaches #peripheries

Beyond Environmental Sustainability

SMOTIES is strongly based on the active involvement and engagement of local communities to identify shared values for the co-creation of sustainable living models based on existing underused public places.

Contact

www.humancities.eu/smoties