Culture, the City and the Commons encounter (internal sessions)

In recent years, crisis has relentlessly encompassed Europe and the whole planet and has deeply affected the social fabric of societies as well as individual concepts of life. In this context, there has been a struggle within the cultural sector and the artistic practices: which should be the role of the people involved in cultural processes? How can we import artistic practices into the political context? Is it possible to embed strategies coming from the cultural world to improve participatory processes? Can we conceive culture as a common good and to improve our democracies through this idea? Without culture there is no real democracy. But the cultural actors should also make self-critical process. In this years, many artists and cultural workers have been defending their rights instead of acting as citizens first. The complexity of the crisis has launched us into a context in which no-one has a safe-place and everyone has to implement a socially engaged approach in order to shape our society. Culture, the City and the Commons pretends to be an encounter to discuss, share and experiment about possible models coming from the cultural practices to regenerate our cities, our democracy and the way we live together. www.culturecitycommons.euRead less