“Traditions” can be understood as a visual metaphor for the continuity of cultural heritage. The combination of folk patterns, abstract shapes, and movement suggests that traditions are not static—they are living elements that connect history, people, and culture.
"On Our Streets" is a short film created by young Italians (with European collaborators) to highlight challenges on our streets, inspire youth engagement, and encourage dialogue with local authorities. Through cinema, it transforms urban spaces into platforms for creativity, inclusion, and community action.
Starodruk is an open digital infrastructure that transforms access to early modern Ukrainian printed heritage. Since January 2024, the platform has made over 500 digitised editions freely available to researchers, students, and the public across 73 countries. By combining high-quality digitisation, scholarly metadata, and an IIIF-compliant viewer, Starodruk repositions early modern Ukrainian book culture as a living reference point within European research and public knowledge.
A project based at Pazo Quinteiro da Cruz, with a philosophy based on sustainability, which preserves the biodiversity of the environment and promotes respect for nature through environmental and cultural education based on botanical criteria, sustainability, the circular economy and the 2030 agenda in guided tours for people from all over theworld who visit us throughout the year. It has the first tea plantation in Spain and, since the end of 2025, it has had a tea house in the forest.
The therapeutic garden at VDNG is a public space for defenders, veterans, and everyone seeking recovery. It merges landscape architecture with therapy, creating inclusive zones shaped by research with veterans, their families, and experts. As a pilot, it establishes a new national standard for healing infrastructure. The space functions as a social reintegration tool, providing sensory-safe environments that reduce stress and help people reclaim their sense of self in a shared urban setting.
For a decade, Q'ART Community Art has been doing what cities forget to do: turning abandoned streets into living spaces, and invisible people into visible communities. Through festivals, therapeutic art workshops with six vulnerable groups, public forums, and four international CONNECT festivals uniting dance, music, art and literature — Q'ART has engaged over 260,000 citizens across Zagreb. Art here is not decoration. It is infrastructure.
The Urban Garden with Sensory Elements in Sarajevo is an award-winning, community-driven green space initiative designed for all, with special focus on children with developmental disabilities from a nearby vocational school. As the first garden of its kind in the Eastern Europe, it blends inclusion, education and nature-based solutions, transforming a small urban space into a model of social and environmental innovation.
TowerTopia tells the story of a sculpture garden made of recycled steel, set amidst rural fields. This multi-year project transforms a neglected space into an open-air art gallery, attracting local villagers for whom it is the only opportunity to engage directly with an artist sharing insights into the creative process and contemporary art. The aesthetics of the intervention harmonize with nature, engaging visitors emotionally and sensorially. TowerTopia is recognized the Lower Silesia region.
Growing Futures explores a regenerative design paradigm where mycelium, robots, and humans collaborate to grow biodegradable habitats directly on-site. Using local food waste as substrate, fungal networks transform waste into building material while robotic systems monitor and nurture growth. The project proposes a shift from extractive production to cultivating living ecosystems, envisioning architecture that grows, adapts, and reintegrates into natural cycles.
La Foresta is a community-led learning space at the train station of Rovereto. It has been co-created by over 30 grassroots actors (with expertise in design, social work, the humanities, agroecology), the municipal Office for Social Policies and the Italian Railway Network. Since 2021, it is open daily, experimenting with convivial, low-threshold activities both at the station and in the 19 villages served by the station with the aim to strengthen social cohesion and local democratic processes.
