For our October 9 Community Conversation, we invited Pascal Gielen as our host.
Perhaps Corona taught us all that nearness as a concept - between persons, between political actors - is what we need to become interlocal citizens. What consequences does that have for our democracy? And for our arts and culture? In this community conversation, Pascal Gielen firstly presents a lecture, after which we’ll have a discussion.
Read More“I do this trajectory almost daily, but now the uncanniness of the situation - this stranger that I just ‘met’, made me hyper-attentive of the public realm and the bizarre moment we’re all in. What struck me is the consciousness of my personal character, my social identity that is evoked by the other’s presence,” recalled a participant of silent walk in Brussels.
After the walk, a scripted conversation takes place and the participants are invited to record or write down their experiences. The feedbacks are then added to the project’s online Archive Of Solidarity, where fragments of these digitalized ‘analogue encounters’ are shown throughout the scope of the project. This is an existing, yet prototyped tool, that will be further developed the coming months.
“It is in the process of mutual recognition, a growing sense of belonging, and in mutual support that we believe the European public space is really built,” says Almudena Caso of Thriving Regardless.
Read MoreIn the frame of the Cultural and Creative Spaces and Cities (CCSC) project, we partnered with the University of Antwerp, in cooperation with l’Asilo and Boekman Foundation, to organise a digital co-creation lab “Commons Sense: Let’s Create a Bottom-Up European Democracy”.
Read MoreIn our series of portraits of Research and Development grantees this time SUPER, the festival of peripheries, in Milan. After participating in the 2017 Idea Camp ‘Moving Communities’ they have been very active in Milan and soon present a festival on their findings.
Read More#OccupyGuguta is a protest movement that started in the summer of 2018 in Chisinau, Moldova. Vitalie Sprinceana - of Connected Action for the Commons hub Oberliht - tells us why.
Read MoreA report on #RDgrantee ‘Squat a river’
Read MoreIn a series of interviews with the 2017 R&D grantees of the Idea Camp, we talk to Paris Legakis, who is about to start his residency at Medialab Prado
Read MoreSince our beginnings in the 1950s, ECF has been pursuing the idea of a Europe that goes beyond historical, cultural and political borders and proposes new ways of doing things. The Europe ECF imagines extends well beyond the EU, embracing the countries that touch our borders to the east and to the south. These guiding principles run through the pages of our new publication Another Europe, which brings together a treasure trove of insights and experiences from partners and participants working with us in the European Neighbourhood over the past 15 years.
Read MorePublished in the frame of ECF's Idea Camp 2015, Build the City: perspectives on commons and culture rediscovers, reframes and reconsiders previously published historical, artistic, participatory and theoretical perspectives on the subject by a wide variety of authors from different geographical and professional backgrounds.
Read MoreBetween 23 and 25 October is ECF's very first Idea Camp, bringing together cultural changemakers from more than 23 countries across Europe and beyond in a three-day exchange of ideas to help rethink people’s place in public space. Dowload the ideas booklet and the programme.
Read MoreThe first six partner organisations of ECF’s new initiative called the Networked Programme came together in Amsterdam from Croatia, France, Moldova, Poland, Spain and Sweden in May 2014. The partners of the Networked Programme are working on establishing and advocating for a new set of democratic best practices in Europe for cultural organisations to engage with communities and culture.
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