I_Improve
I_Improve (Innovative, Informal Methodologies for Practical, River-Oriented and Versatile Education) is a cooperative European project co-funded by Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
The partnership consists of 6 members from the River//Cities platform: Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Poland and Lithuania. The common framework is promoting audience engagement through culture, especially in waterfront areas. Its priorities are social inclusion, open and innovative practices in the digital area, and adult education.
The Arts broaden perspectives and encourage mutual understanding. In other words, the Arts have the ability to engage with citizens, both established and newly arrived, through cultural and creative interventions. Therefore, there is a clear demand for new and innovative practices and formats, hence requiring different competences from the staff of cultural organisations.
Cultural organisations need to join forces when facing current social challenges. Being able to share and learn from peers in the same working field throughout Europe can strengthen the professionalism of its staff members. On a European and global level strong teamwork, connecting competences, and sharing responsibilities and workload are factors that contribute to citizen education and intercultural dialogue.
Project's timeline: 01 09.2018 - 31.08.2021 - 36 moths.
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Every Child is an Artist! First BenchMarking Colors of Love Workshop for children.
Every Child is an Artist! First BenchMarking Colors of Love Workshop for children.
Chronicles of a day in Venice - Urban event “Mi e Ti” in San Trovas
Chronicles of a day in Venice - Urban event “Mi e Ti” in San Trovas
A photo overview of the I_Improve project
A photo overview of the I_Improve project
New Talk Series from Vienna : “Bankgesrpäche mit Marcus Schober” (Benchtalks with Marcus Schober)
New Talk Series from Vienna : “Bankgesrpäche mit Marcus Schober” (Benchtalks with Marcus Schober)
River//Cities Platform creates new organisational narrative.
River//Cities Platform creates new organisational narrative.
During one of I_Improve project's activities (C5), River//Cities Platform used the opportunity to co-create new organisational narrative.
Intercult Webinar “Arts as a force for social change” - Dr t s Beall
Intercult Webinar “Arts as a force for social change” - Dr t s Beall
In this webinar Dr t s Beall, presented her methodology of helping communities to regain a sense of belonging while challenging dominant narratives of place.
ARSENALIA: Heritage Gaming. A cluster of games to discover the Venice Arsenal
ARSENALIA: Heritage Gaming. A cluster of games to discover the Venice Arsenal
A short documentary will be show in the occasion, cureted by Sara Pitteri and Franco Rado (link).
Intercult Webinar “Arts as a force for social change” 16 June 2021– Dina Abu Hamdan
Intercult Webinar “Arts as a force for social change” 16 June 2021– Dina Abu Hamdan
Intercult invited four socially engaged and changemaking women artists and practitioners to present the frame of their community building methodology. Dina Abu Hamdan is an interdisciplinary artist, artistic director, producer. She believes that the important thing is to give voice to the people, give them joy and empowerment. This will create a new thinking of their place.
Intercult Webinar “Arts as a force for social change” 16 June 2021 – Gülbeden Kulbay
Intercult Webinar “Arts as a force for social change” 16 June 2021 – Gülbeden Kulbay
Intercult invited four socially engaged and changemaking women artists and practitioners to present the frame of their community building methodology. Gülbeden Kulbay is a multi-artist working with Performance and Community-Art. She introduced us her approach and her methodology using her personal story and experiences.
I_Improve activities
C2 – Poland visiting Belgium
River//Cities Poland and Arteria Visit to Ostend during March 15-21 2019 Hosting organisation – City of Ostend, supporting organisation – Kris Lambert Library.
C5 – Austria visiting Poland
In August 2019 we had our C5 Meeting in the lovely city of Gdansk with a very nice and hospitable host.
C7: Summarising experiences and learning processes in Stockholm
We organised a meeting in Stockholm to summarise our learning, teaching and training activities within the framework of I_Improve.
C2 Belgium - a Host
Belgium hosts Poland March 16th-20th 2019
C6 Sweden - a Host for Ostend
C6 – Belgium visiting Sweden
Ostend Library visited Intercult in Stockholm from March 25th until March 29th. We like to share some inspirational thoughts about our visit.
C4 Lithuania a Host
C4 Lithuania is hosting Venice's partners A visit of our dear partners, Venti di Cultura, to Lithuania was a great chance to explore the games as a method in cultural development. Also, because Venti di Cultura holds expertise in implementing the principles of the Faro convention, we saw this visit as a chance to discuss the role of the communities in the protection and development of the cultural heritage and to strengthen the network of organisations, active in this field.
C3 Italy - a Host
Changing the relationships among the stakeholders of the old Arsenale in Venice through a board game: a challenge for find a new comprehension and a common aim.
C7 - Summaries of Creative Sessions from each partner
C1 Lithuania visiting Austria
C1 Lithuanians in Austria (a collective diary) Three members from the Vilnius-based organization "Laimikis.lt" (Jekaterina, Julius, and Aistė) arrived in Vienna on 12th February 2019. During the visit, they wrote a collective diary. This is the collection of notes gathered during our 4-day visit.
C4 – Italy visiting Lithuania
A rich exchange of experiences and discoveries in Vilnius brought Venti di Cultura to develop the idea to move the board game in the Arsenale into an urban game.
C3 - Sweden visiting Italy
Intercult from Stockholm, Sweden visited Venti di Cultura in Venice, Italy. Here is a summary of what what we did and learned!
C5 Poland - a Host
REFLECTION OF RIVER//CITIES PLATFORM FOUNDATION UPON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF C5 ACTIVITY: VIENNA TO GDANSK
C1 Austria - a Host
Life long learning - Marion Guerrero about the c1 meeting in Vienna
C7 Unheard voices and unseen places, Stockholm 17-23 August 2019
IO3 ANALYTICAL REPORT FOR POLICYMAKERS
The design of this report is a link in the innovation chain by shaping the ideas and concepts of the preceding activities into an attractive and practical set of recommendations for decision makers. The first section of the report will concentrate on radical innovation in the creation of cultural interventions, the second will focus on incremental innovation in cultural organisations. Laimikis/ Lithuania is the product owner nad coordinator of IO3, Venti di Cultura/Italy and SPÖ Wienerbildung/ Austria share their expertise on working with policymakers.
IO1 ADAPTING A DIGITAL PLATFORM
IO 1 is a digital platform bundling descriptive data of different formats and projects of engaging audiences on diverse urban waterfronts based in Europe. These local level cultural actions initiated by the ChangeMakers’ partner organisations apply participatory practices to an urban waterfront environment. River//Cities Poland is the product owner of IO1.
IO2 TRANSMEDIA LEARNING COMMUNITY
IO2 has two complementary aspects: it serves as a space to document the learning process of staff members participating in the learning activity. Through information across several accessible Web 2.0 platforms which support a variety of media formats, it creates a transmedia educational resource. IO2 is led by Ostend Municipality, Belgium with the support of Lithuania and the informal educator in its creation and coordination. All partner staff members participating in the learning activity will add content.
E7-E12 RESULT SHARING WITH POLICYMAKERS / LOCAL – STAFFMEMBERS : ADD VALUE TO IO3
E1-E6 SOCIAL INNOVATION LABS / LOCAL – STAFFMEMBERS : ADD VALUE TO IO1 AND IO2
