Human Cities – Challenging the city scale

The focus of the project is on analysing, testing and implementing the process of engaging people in jointly creating urban public spaces in contemporary cities and challenging the scale and “flow space” of cities in Europe today. People are the key to designing new public spaces in a network society. The goal is to go beyond planned projects implemented in cities to study and understand the strength of unplanned activities and ideas in public spaces. Project activities are built from one or more Human Cities shared values: empathy, wellbeing, sustainability, intimacy, conviviality, mobility, accessibility, aesthetics, leisure, imagination, sensoriality, respect and solidarity. By rejecting compartmentalised disciplines, this European project partnership brings together designers, architects, urban planners, sociologists, art historians, bloggers, philosophers and artists all involved at one point in the evolution of public spaces. Through applied research and shared creation, the Human Cities network appears as a continuous human-driven cultural project addressing the position and status of people in relation to their cities and ever-changing flow space(s).

HC-ccc14-18 Some field studies will be carried out in the initial stages of the project to discover and create a review of participatory design initiatives in public space in partner countries. Next, an experimentation programme will be held. This implies all sorts of activities such as campaigns, projects and programmes to support joint work on existing initiatives or to create new ones in order to test new methodologies in the process of creating urban public space. The outcomes will be evaluated by collecting users’ experiences. The results will be integrated into a travelling exhibition and presented to the general public through several exhibitions held during major design events in the partner cities. In Ljubljana, this travelling exhibition will be held in May 2017 and related to some other activities in the city (e.g., BIO/Design Week 2017). As a part of the exhibitions, some educational tools for children and schools will also be created. A research publication will be published at the end, addressing the professional community and the general public. Between 2016 and 2018, education and training sessions will be jointly organized by partner cities at five design centres. The aim of these masterclasses for professionals is to challenge the city dimension in jointly creating contemporary public spaces and creating new response scenarios to ongoing processes in contemporary societies to improve the quality of life in cities today.

Fotozgodba, Human Cities: challenging the city scale

Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (UIRS)

(Partner) Ljubljana

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

Cité du design – Ecole supérieure d’Art et de design (leader)

France (EU)
Aalto-Korkeakoulusaatio sr (partner)

Finland (EU)
Association Design Week (partner)

Republic of Serbia
BEAZ SA (partner)

Spain (EU)
Clear Village Charitable Trustee Limited (partner)

United Kingdom (EU)
CULTURE LAB (partner)

Belgium (EU)
Estonian Association of Designers (partner)

Estonia (EU)
ENTIDAD PUBLICA EMPRESARIAL LOCAL BILBAO EKINTZA (partner)

Spain (EU)
FH JOANNEUM Gesellschaft mbH (partner)

Austria (EU)
Politecnico di Milano (partner)

Italy (EU)
PRO MATERIA ASBL (partner)

Belgium (EU)
Zamek Cieszyn (partner)

Poland (EU)

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ArtElevate – Fostering Inclusive Cultural Expression in Europe

CARE – Culture for Mental Health

Glassmaking Between Tradition and Innovation

WONDERCUT – Collaboratively Exploring the Public Value of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Next Level Cultural Experiences

Heroes Unleashed: Implementing a Sensory Reading Program in European Public Libraries

DATAS – The Data and the Sovereign

TALKING HEADS – Conversation with the art of the past

Libraries of Emotions for Good

GreenHeritage – Nurturing a sustainable future in the gardens of time

G-BOOK 3

PAGE: a Project for Advancing coGnitivE accessibility in publishing

DIGITAL on STAGE – Unleashing the Performing Arts Experience through Digital Innovation

OASis – Open Art Spaces in Synergy

Transport: Sustainable puppet co-creations for European young audiences

Danube Dance Alliance for Development of Contemporary Dance Scene in the Danube Region

Mind the GAP

Beletrina Digital

WOMEN interACT – participatory theatre against the double exclusion of women

TECH(ing) TALES WITH A TWIST for the children of the present

DoSEL – Drama of Smaller European Languages

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Operation Nova

Kino x Games

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

Cultural BEES

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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

reCITYing – Reactivating Unused Urban Spaces Through Architecture and Arts 2024–2028

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