The topics of inclusion, sustainability and awareness are entangled in a playful process where the urban context becomes a backdrop to perform and highlight issues of exclusion in the city. The URBAN EMPATH/ workshop immerses participants in a series of processes which creatively explore notions of empathy through the performative arts, design, video, drawing, creative …
“Letters to the City” is an interactive installation that encourages citizens to share their visions for the future of cities in Cyprus. The installation acts as a shared platform for ideas and engagement. It invites visitors to engage in creating a collective urban vision by generating ideas, thoughts and possibilities. By compiling the results, Urban …
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The spring 2023 partner meeting of the ECRN consortium was hosted by our partners Chemnitz, the European Capital of Culture 2025! We worked on the art dimension of the project, the festival exchanges, our benchmarking study and the future of ECRN. Team Chemnitz showed us their amazing city with locations such as Wirkbau, Oberdeck Chemnitz …
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Peace Lab aimed, by defying the separation, at ‘constructing’ peacemaking activities and by creating new imaginaries for Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities. A series of artistic and creative activities that aimed to connect the two communities took place. One of the Peace Lab’s project activities was the making and flying of kites with groups of people …
A series of workshops on collaborative design for schoolyards were held in conjunction with the 5th grade of the 3rd Primary School of Palouriotissa and the Department of Architecture at the University of Cyprus. The workshops resulted in a series of innovative, colourful and creative proposals. Following a comprehensive survey conducted by our partner Despo …
On November 18t & 19th 2022, we took part at the Urban Awareness Exhibition which was organised by the Afternoon Project Nicosia. The event was held at the Spilies Exhibition Centre, Acropolis park in Nicosia. During the event we exhibited our project ‘Letters to the city’, an interactive installation which aims to collect citizens’ visions …
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An inspiring and productive day was organised this week in Famagusta! On Sunday, November 6th 2022, we flew again our kites in Famagusta during the concluding event of our ‘Peace Lab’ project which was funded by the Japan World Exposition 1970 Commemorative Fund (JEC). The event took place in Famagusta with the support of the …
Veronika Antoniou from Urban Gorillas presented the work of Urban Gorillas in Kyoto, Japan to a creative and diverse ground in the cultural space Bridge to Kyoto. The presentation focused on case studies from Urban Gorillas of ephemeral urban practises that contribute to sustainable living and instigate change in city spaces and communities. The Discussion that followed …
We are super proud and delighted to be the first organisation in Cyprus to receive the prestigious Commonwealth Foundation grant! Our project proposal for MAPS: Mobile ‘Agora’ for Participatory Spaces has been one of the 17 projects accepted for funding -out of over 780 applications- and a new project is about to begin! A few …
