UrbCulturalPlanning
Project Duration
January 2019 – June 2021
Results
https://urbcultural.eu/
Overview
NDPC is partnering with the UrbCulturalPlanning project which will use culture and creativity to make living better in the neighborhoods in cities or in rural areas in the Baltic Sea Region. The main objective of the Urban Cultural Planning project is to advance the capacity of public authorities in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) and local NGOs and associations to collaborate on citizen driven cultural planning. The project is a cross border partnership of 14 Project Partners and 36 Associated Organizations in 8 countries.
During the project methods of cultural planning will be collected in a toolkit and mentoring on the use of it will be provided.
There will be 10 Urban Labs organized to adapt cultural planning methods for wider use in the BSR, including topics of cultural mapping, cultural visioning, stimulating local social innovation etc.
12 BSR Demonstrator projects in the neighborhoods of cities and towns will address challenges such as shrinking cities, social inclusion, gentrification, lack of community life and others.
Residencies for artists will be organized to have a fresh view on the potentials of the neighborhoods and games will be used to involve children and young people to empower their creativity in finding the best solutions for local challenges as well as well as finding new opportunities.
Within the project 3 conferences will be organized to bring together cultural planning practitioners with policy makers and stakeholders, regional and city planners, culture departments, NGOs, businesses and media. Conferences will take place in Kiel (4 – 7 July, 2019), Gdansk (2020) and Riga (2021).
Funding
UrbCulturalPlanning project is funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region (BSR) programme. It is a BSR flagship project running from January 2019 to June 2021 with the total funding of 2.528.385 euros.
