The winners of the 6th edition will be announced in May 2024.
The winners of the 6th edition will be announced in May 2024.
BUENOS AIRES (ARGENTINA)
The project “Abasto cultural neighbourhood: economic boost and urban regeneration” is promoted by the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires since 2019. It is an urban regeneration project based on the transformation of public space, drawing on a model of participatory governance of culture that promotes the collective creation of identity and social integration, enhancing the activity of the independent cultural spaces that distinguish the Abasto neighbourhood. The project has invested in infrastructure, leading to improvements in the public space such as increasing pedestrian accessibility and enhancing the quality of life of neighbours. It has also promoted the cocreation with the communities, allowing the implementation of a participatory governance model in which public space is understood as a stage and platform for cultural activities, and it has relied on the value of local cultural industries, boosting the reflection and shared construction of the tangible and intangible identity features of the communities as driving forces for social integration. Impacts include a better articulation of the cultural supply of the neighbourhood and its relationship with cultural space, the reduction of inequalities within the community and the enhancement of the diversity of local cultural expressions.
See the summary of Buenos Aires's project "Abasto Cultural neighbourhood: Economic boost and urban regeneration".
See the article on Buenos Aires's "Abasto Cultural neighbourhood: Economic boost and urban regeneration" project.
DUBLIN (IRELAND)
"'AWE' - Cultural Engagement through Accessibility, Wellbeing and Evidence" was initiated by Dublin City Council Culture Company in April 2020 as a sustainable response to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. 'AWE' was envisioned as a strategy to protect the cultural rights of Dublin's citizens, and to actively engage with them and respond culturally to their needs, through 3 main strands: (a) Accessibility, (b) Wellbeing, (c) Evidence. The Culture Company, established in 2018 with the mission to engage with people and communities through conversation and culture, increasing cultural participation and practice throughout the city's neighbourhood, continued their engagement work with community groups, youth leaders, artists, partners from the local authority, residential care homes, businesses and national cultural institutions. Through listening, responsive actions to improve accessibility, inclusion and create more ways into culture during the pandemic were created. 'AWE' has actively demonstrated the success, transferability and adaptability of an original methodology that not only ensured the cultural rights of citizens during the pandemic and beyond, but also undertook extensive research that could be considered as a benchmark for other cities.
See the summary of Dublin's initiative "'AWE' - Cultural engagement through accessibilitym wellbeing and evidence".
See the article on Dublin's "AWE: Cultural engagement through accessibility, wellbeing and evidence" initiative.