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

The project reCITYing will unfold throughout 48 months with an aim to promote the short-term action to leverage social participation and co-creation for the regeneration of unused, closed or private urban spaces and buildings into artistic laboratories as new cultural incubators, open to the city. The general structure of the project is based on a recursive set of thematic actions (Creative Workshops, Space Installations, Itinerant Space Performances), enriched by moments of capacity building and audience engagement leveraging the role of architecture as a stage for arts and co-creation with the aim of improving social inclusion and accessibility to neglected spaces in the city. The project fosters practical knowledge and professional skills in recycling architecture in 4 partner and 4 host cities (Genoa-Lublin, Barcelona-Umea, Hannover-Tallin, Maribor-Timișoara) by consolidating a common logical framework and a roadmap for Temporary Reuse approach.

For philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre, appropriation is a function of lived space, where the imagination seeks to change it. Lived space is a place of passion where the user/community encounters resistance, which inevitably involves conscious action and struggle. How then can temporary reuse practices foster processes of urban reappropriation and regeneration strategies of residual spaces in the city? Against this backdrop, reCITYing has the ambition to create a platform for knowledge creation and exchange of experiences on temporary reuse practices to define co-creation of spaces in a European perspective and is aimed at young creatives and professionals from the fields of architecture, design and arts, policy makers and local social enterprises.

reCITYing partner consortium consists of the project leader Università degli studi di Genova (Italy) and Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (Spain), Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany), UGM | Maribor Art Gallery (Slovenia) and Association Champ Libre (France).

Photo: Janez Klenovšek, UGM

Maribor Art Gallery

(Partner) Maribor

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

Universita degli studi di Genova (leader)

Italy (EU)
IAAC (partner)

Spain (EU)
LUH (partner)

Germany (EU)
CHAMP LIBRE (partner)

France (EU)

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