HeritACT

#HeritACT 2024: Celebrating a Year of Impact 🌟 As we wrapped up 2024, we're excited to share the incredible strides we've made in reimagining cultural #heritage through creativity, innovation, and sustainability From revitalising spaces in Milano, Ballina, and Elefsina into vibrant cultural hubs to sharing our vision at global events like the New European Bauhaus Festival, HeritACT has been at the forefront of reimagining cultural heritage. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dR3ts5ZP

As 2024 concludes, the #HeritACT #Milan pilot has made significant strides in integrating culture, sustainability, and inclusion within the city's historic cascine. Guided by the New European Bauhaus principles—beauty, sustainability, and inclusion—the project has fostered collaboration, community engagement, and innovative design.🎨 From envisioning futures aligned with the SDGs to exploring Glasgow’s heritage projects, this year’s journey culminated at the Future4Cities Festival, presenting Milan’s cascine as beacons of climate action and local identity. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dW79pwiM

On December 7 the #Usersence development team from University of the Aegean, presented the tool at the #ACMGreekCHISymposium 2024 of the Greek ACM Special Interest Group in Human-Computer Interaction for the World Usability Day. 🤖 The team underlined the need to utilize Usersence in User Experience Evaluations and had the opportunity to share valuable information and insights from the development phase.

#HeritACT 2024: A Year in Review 🌟 As 2024 draws to a close, we're thrilled to share the highlights and milestones of the year with you! This newsletter is your chance to dive into the HeritACT landscape and discover how we're (re)connecting with cultural heritage through #creativity, #innovation, and #sustainability. 🔗 Pilots: Reviving Spaces and Stories Our pilot sites—Milano, Ballina, and Elefsina—are breathing new life into unused or abandoned spaces, turning them into vibrant cultural hubs. Explore how each city is fostering community engagement: 🎭 HeritACT Around the World From the New European Bauhaus Festival to the European Cultural Heritage Summit, we've shared our progress and research with global audiences. These events have been incredible opportunities to exchange ideas, collaborate, and showcase the cutting-edge work happening in HeritACT. ⭐ Looking Ahead to 2025 Next year, we're doubling down on our mission: -Launching activation events at pilot sites -Strengthening participatory approaches with local communities -Expanding our dissemination and policy engagement efforts -Aligning with the New European Bauhaus principles to leave a lasting legacy 👉 Read the full newsletter: https://lnkd.in/dR3ts5ZP

The recent Arts and Cultural Management Conference | ACMC in Vienna, held at the Romanian Cultural Institute, brought together 70-80 cultural professionals to explore the theme of "Transgression & Collaboration." 🍁 The event featured the European Network of Cultural Centres panel, focusing on innovative projects and strategies in cultural heritage. Key discussions revolved around how artists challenge societal norms to drive creativity and the collaborative forms that emerge from such #transgressions. For more insights into the conference, the ENCC pannel that counted with the participation of Dzina Skuratovich and Piotr Michalowski and its impact on cultural heritage management, read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/dzGuUGpg

In the Cultural #Heritage sector, co-design practices have been increasingly implemented in recent years to enhance the engagement of communities and stakeholders in the preservation, interpretation, and promotion of cultural heritage. 📚 Participatory design workshops, co-creation of exhibitions, co-production of digital content, and collaborative research are some examples of co-design practices implemented in the cultural heritage sector. Get to know #HeritACT's Community led design & development methodological framework in the publication by University of the Aegean: https://lnkd.in/dwqHfyJy

Reimagine Ballina's Buildings! Our colleagues from the #TREBUChET project, coordinated by our colleagues from University College Dublin, EPA Research , the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, organised on Dec 12, 2024, at the Mary Robinson Centre the event 'Reimagining Retrofit & Remaking Town'. This event offers: -Expert advice on retrofitting and grants for vacant buildings -Free 1-on-1 consultations to bring buildings back into use -Free lunch and holiday treats More info here: https://lnkd.in/drgpWTrU 📍The Mary Robinson Centre, Ballina, Co. Mayo |  🕒Starts at 12:30 PM 🎯Register now:  https://lnkd.in/dpYtHTmY

Last week, the #Milan pilot’s partners participated at the #Future4Cities Festival to showcase participatory and co-design processes during a workshop session dedicated to climate actions. 🏙 The session posed critical questions: -What actions should be taken to fight and respond to climate change? -What principles should we adopt to design and implement them effectively and sustainably?’ To address these questions, Stefano Boeri Architetti (SBA) and LAND presented HeritACT as a case study of participatory design actions happening in Ballina (IR), Eleusis (GR) and Milan (IT). They emphasised the importance of co-creating innovative, replicable, scalable, and inclusive solutions that empower #placemaking. This approach develops a sense of ownership among the community while positioning urban biodiversity as the heritage of the future. HeritACT’s co-design process of such interventions includes: 🟡 Methodology: the co-creation of a roadmap that analyzes the context based on four key dimensions (stakeholders, activities, sites characteristics and legal framework). This Roadmap also establishes a clear timeline for actions and activities. 🟡 Activities: the development of a participatory process unfolded in four phases: 1) Defining a shared vision, 2) Translating the vision into tangible assets through co-designed interventions, 3) Implementing the solutions and 4) Animating the spaces with events and activities to sustain engagement. Comune di Milano LAND Stefano Boeri Architetti THINGS New European Bauhaus #biodiversity #NaturebasedSolutions #PublicSpace

Spotlight on #CineEleusis! 🎥 How can a historic cinema become a vibrant #cultural hub that unites a community? ✨ Discover the inspiring story of Cine Eleusis, one HeritACT's intervention areas that breathes new life into heritage by connecting the past with the present. Located in the heart of Elefsina, this initiative is more than a cinema—it's a meeting point where culture, creativity, and community intertwine. In this latest HeritACT article, we explore how Cine Eleusis embodies the power of #heritage to inspire and innovate, showing the world what happens when tradition meets modernity. https://lnkd.in/dRsvpH88 -- © John Stathis/ MoE

In order to test the New European Bauhaus Compass (#NEBC) as a framework for heritage activation that integrates #EuropeanGreenDeal and NEB principles, an online survey structured by NEB values and principles was developed. ⭐️ #HeritACT adapts the NEBC to explore different heritage activation projects that align with its values and working principles through a Study Map Tour. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/d2MB5vaM