Future DiverCities: The School of Feral Grounds

Future DiverCities is a pan-European project working towards systematising ecosystemic and ecological strategies in cultural urban regeneration. Through a coalition of 13 partners from 10 different countries, the project aims to to pilot and test new culture-led usages of vacant urban lands, foster cross-sectoral learning and develop new approaches and practices of cultural urban regeneration.

As part of the Future DiverCities program, Trajna produced an educational programme “The School of Feral Grounds”, together with INNOCAMP PL.

The School of Feral Grounds situates cultural practices in the world in which capital-driven economies act as geological forces, terraforming the earth into a place where climate change, social inequality, and species extinction call for urgent collective action. The school acts as a forum for interchange, where reflections, concepts, case studies, and generative exercises invite participants to position urban ecologies within the field of culture by interlinking common notions of the urban and ecology. In a series of three interactive study modules, participants of the programme will dive into diverse topics of urban ecology and different perspectives thereon, together with inspiring guest speakers working in the fields of visual arts and curation, activism, geography, and ecology. The programme is developed and run by architect and theoretician Danica Sretenović and eco-social designer Gaja Mežnarić Osole, and is offered to the public free of charge.

Trajna – Association for the Development of Sustainable Design

(Partner) Ljubljana

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

Friche La Belle De Mai (leader)

France (EU)
Seconde nature (partner)

France (EU)
Kontejner (partner)

Croatia (EU)
Anti – Contemporary Art Festival Yhdistry Ry (partner)

Finland (EU)
Liepajas pilsetas pasvaldibas iestade kulturas parvalde (partner)

Latvia (EU)
Savonia – Anmattikorkeakoulu (partner)

Finland (EU)
Public Art Lab EV (partner)

Germany (EU)
Lama societa cooperative – impresasociale (partner)

Italy (EU)
BIOS Exploring Urban Culture (partner)

Greece (EU)
Asociatia centruel cultural PLAI (partner)

Romania (EU)
Europaiko diktyo dimiurgikon komvon (partner)

Greece (EU)
Innocamp (partner)

Poland (EU)

Funded projects

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Operation Nova

Kino x Games

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

Cultural BEES

Is this us?

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Moving Balkans

Youth Art for the Earth (YAFE)

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

December: Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Book (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges (OLL LE)

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo (FF)

Spring Cleaning

Animation Festival Network

CulturalDeTour - Sustainable Cultural Tourism by Design Driven Innovation

Building the future of democracy through art, science and technology (EUDigitalDeal)

CEE Animation Forum 2021

The Museum of the Commons. Towards a Healthier Arts Ecosystem (MoC)

ACT: Art, Climate, Transition

Baths, gothic churches and miners’ houses

Fake Lies

THE FILM CORNER RELOADED - A CULTURAL APPROACH

CINEMINI EUROPE

FC Freedom

Body

Movies in Motion

Voix de la Poesie Europeenne

Trust me, I'm an artist

The Faces Behind the Nose - Promoting Hospital Clowning as a Recognized Genre of Performing Arts

SYMBOLS - Culture of Death& Cultural Life: New audiences and creations around European Cemeteries!