From 6th to 12th of December 2020, CultureLabs and its pilots will be showcased during the 3rd Annual Citizen Engagement and Deliberative Democracy Festival (3rd CEDD Festival) It is an online appointment organised by the European Commission, devoted to analysing how democracy is changing and how citizens can participate in this change. And again, this […]
We are happy to announce that the CultureLabs digital platform is now available and ready-to-use! If you are interested in participatory projects that leverage Cultural Heritage for the inclusion and empowerment of communities CultureLabs is what suits you: a collaborative and free space where you can find helpful material and reuse it according to your […]
The activities of CultureLabs project have been suspended due to the global health emergency of Covid19 but the needs, the challenges as well as the enthusiasm of the participants are still the same. For this reason, we collected feedback from participants of “Bridging Culture through Arts“, our pilot in Ancona, as a wish to restart […]
The way in which people continue to be inspired by Jo Cox to bring people together across divides more than three years after she was killed is testimony to the fact that those values are enduring and unshakeable. Inspired by her ethos, PHM launched More in Common pilot activity as an opportunity to work with […]
Zoom In On Heritage, by using pictures, brings the benefit of creating a comfortable and easy space where the participants can express their values, identities and thoughts in a group bringing the participants also to a more equal level in terms of language. The coordinators had a sense that women took part in an increased […]
What Bridging Culture Through Arts brought to the participants? In general, a shared need to meet each other and to participate in the project, which is extremely positive. A sense of belonging is starting to emerge, which makes the group more solid and easier to work with. Nonetheless, some physiological dropouts were recorded, due to […]
It is hard to define exactly what has determined what… But we are very happy to hear from the responsible of the associations we are working with that the visits sparked positive energy and the target group is now very cohesive and creative, more than ever. As told by one of the founders and coordinators […]
The more we got to know the participants’ motivations, the more we were certain that More in Common is very much needed within our community. From the stories and quotations we are going to tell it’s evident the huge need for people to meet with the ‘other’ person. Whether this otherness is defined by their […]
The early stages of Zoom In On Heritage were characterized by unpredictability about what kind of reflections and perceptions the group of women – who had different backgrounds – would have about the collections that mostly represent the culture and history of Finland during the past centuries. For this reason, we focused our first task […]
Image Theatre is one of the techniques adopted during the labs of Bridging Culture Through Arts pilot. It’s about a performance exercise in which people do not use words or signs, but use their bodies and objects to communicate an idea and emotion. In this technique one person acts as a sculptor and moulds other […]
