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Cultures Eco Actives

France (EU)

  • Cultures Eco Actives
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  • Tue., 05.05.2026
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The association Cultures Eco Actives, created by prefectural decree dated 18/09/2022, based in Châteauroux-les-alpes, France, is a non-profit organization which aims to enhance, promote, develop innovation in environnemental responsability in culture and through culture, and cultural rights. It is in constant partnership with local artists and cultural organizations. Cultures Eco Actives works with living art to test and study how they can change feelings and stories about human place in nature, make people feel their link to nature and the need to care about environnement.

It has gained expertise on inquiries to the population about the effect of an artistic proposal on their will to act for the environment.

Our project aims at responding to today’s ecological emergency by using art to rebuild our emotional and sensory connection with the living world. We want to join forces to explore how art can help people feel more connected to life, give them an opportunity to express their intimate link to nature, and thus open the democratic debate on the issue of human/more-than-human link.

Through this renewed connection to nature, they could become more engaged in protecting the environment.

Having artistically and collectively expressed themselves about it, they could be more active on sharing ideas, making decisions, increase their role as citizens.

Artists rarely receive clear feedback on the emotional or unconscious impact of their work, and the population rarely have the opportunity to share their intimate link to nature. The project seeks to change that by developing tools and methods to gather audience responses—not just rational opinions, but also sensations, emotions, and impressions. To do this, artists collaborate with psychologists and sociologists to better understand how to touch people’s sensitivity.

Opening a democratic debate on these questions it rarely done thanks to emotional and imaginaries sharing among citizens. The projects aims at creating artistic tools to do so.

The project is also an opportunity for artists and cultural organisations to grow: they will learn new skills, strengthen their capacity to evaluate their impact, and open a democratic debate from intimacy.

Through this initiative, the project aims at proving that art can be a powerful force for ecological awareness and democratic engagement. It offers a new way to help people—through emotion and shared experience—to take care of the world we live in.

More information HERE.

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