Transitioning LANDscapes
European partnership project
Activate's Role: Sub-contractor providing professional training and mentoring
- Partners: Oerol (The Netherlands), Le Citron Jaune (France) and SYTEV (Slovakia).
- Date / time: The programme started in January 2024.
3 Landscape Laboratories, 1 Shared Framework
Each partner – Oerol (The Netherlands), Le Citron Jaune (France) and SYTEV (Slovakia) – will create a ‘Landscape Laboratory’ around the landscape in which they operate. Although the activities of each laboratory will follow the same framework, each of the labs will carry out their own unique experiments based on their particular context.
By giving space to each Laboratory’s specificities, we hoped to create a more diverse range of experiment and innovation which could be transferred to more contexts across Europe. It is paramount that the activities of each partner work for them, making them far more sustainable and leading to a much greater local and regional impact. We also plan activities for professional development, European exchange, discussion and, of course, the presentation of landscape-based works which respond to our local and global challenges.
For almost four decades, a number of European arts organisations have been pioneering the programming of cultural interventions in protected and important landscapes. In this time, we have become increasingly aware of the special responsibility we have towards the sometimes fragile and protected landscapes in which we operate and the important role we can play in connecting landscape and environmental issues to broader cultural audiences. We’re convinced that this emerging, interdisciplinary art form can form a vital part of the cultural sector’s response to the climate emergency, connecting global challenges to local landscape issues, connecting art to science and environmental work, and connecting audiences to the urgencies of our age. Building on previous projects and experience, we want to scale-up our efforts to connect with new audiences and partners across Europe, making the case for landscape-based arts as a vital artform for the 21st century.
Activate is a LAND partner, and a sub-contractor on the Transitioning LANDscapes project which is funded by the Creative Europe programme.
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Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them. CREA-CULT-2023-COOP project number 101129636 – LAND Transitions.