The Treetop Walk of Serralves Park, in Porto, offers an innovative way to enjoy this unique natural heritage, promoting awareness of nature conservation, developing educational programmes and scientific research – in particular, related to the carbon cycle and climate change – and hosting artistic events. It is a beautiful example of sustainable contemporary architecture!
The Wool March celebrates the capacity of wool as a way to bring people together by 'walking with'. As a celebration of urban and rural relations, the Wool March is a annual event in a number of cities in the EU. We bring value to wool, interspecie relations, rural expertise, multicultural connectedness in an act of transhumance: the ancient practice of bringing herds from pasture to pasture. With beautiful hand felted blankets, sheep wear their own wool as activists promoting abilities of all.
Art as an act. The writer beyond his desk. Telling stories than the skin tells. Live. In the moment. Creating with no premeditation. A mirroring experience. In the moment. For the moment. That remains as part of our experience. That stays in a paper.
I believe that we live in a time when it is important to sit in front of each other and learn to look at ourselves and express our feelings with honesty and poetry, to hold up a mirror to people.
Nestor_2.0 is a prosocial research-and-design project whose main goal is to create a series of infographic materials promoting knowledge of the latest digital IT and communication techniques. The target group includes seniors interested in expanding their digital competencies. Currently, there is a deficit of such solutions. Among the developed issues, there are many topics related to digital space in the city, such as smart cities, smart homes, augmented reality.
Bolzanism Museum (BZM) is Italy’s first open-air museum dedicated to narrating public housing buildings and the stories of the people that inhabit them.
Through theatrical urban explorations, workshops and events, the BZM invites inhabitants, visitors and tourists to discover Bolzano’s western suburbs with a promise: you will never look at Bozen West with the same eyes again.
'Germinale' is an urban regeneration project for the underserved neighbourhood Le Piagge in the outskirt of Florence. Inspired by the famous Emile Zola novel dedicated to the redemption of the poorest , the new building is a former vandalised greenhouse, self-rebuilt and transformed into a house for the arts. It is a space for the new generations who can't find a "home" in the city and a way of escaping marginality expanding the access to culture and beauty where you wouldn't expect to find.
Bar do Porto is a family run project based in the small fishing village Corrubedo in Galicia, North West Spain. In a community where bars and restaurants are an important part of the daily lives of the locals, we decided to reopen and reimagine a a neighbourhood bar that had been closed for over 25 years. Setting an example for other rural ventures, we run the bar supporting local produce and suppliers, giving job opportunities to young locals, and encouraging a mix of urban and rural clients.
Rehabilitation center for the promotion of well-being and the relationship between man and nature with social inclusion, based on occupational therapy, within which every type of disability, through a multidisciplinary team, will be placed in a position to be able to actively participate in different activities of daily life and of interest but also pet therapy, horticulture/eco-laboratories, transformation of materials and sales favoring the increase of personal autonomy.
On the mountainous Mediterranean island of Corsica, local architecture office Orma Architettura has designed three unique viewing platforms, thought as a space for watching the endangered Corsican deer. This is an animal endemic to the islands of Corsica and Sardinia that almost disappeared during the late ’60s, but which has been saved thanks to a program of breeding begun in the 1980s.
4Cs: From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture was a European Cooperation Project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. The 4Cs aimed to understand how training and education in art and culture can constitute powerful resources to address the issue of conflict as well as to envision creative ways in which to deal with conflictual phenomena, while contributing to audience development through active participation and co-production.
