On 07 July 2021 River//Cities Foundation hosted from Gdansk - on digital platform our last transnational (TM5) event which is closing our I_Improve project's chapter. The meeting in Gdansk was focused on impact, dissemination and use of the project results. All the partners talked about the highlights of our activities over the project, rounded [...]
Dr t's Beall is the Lead Artist for 'Woven in Govan', and was the lead Scottish artist for 'Woven Network' (2020),spanning five countries and led by Platform TU (Ukraine). Beall is a socially-engaged artist and researcher based in Dumfries and Glasgow, working with communities on durational projects to recover marginalised histories. Her work spans a [...]
Lia Ghilardi summarizes the methodology Intercult focused on in our process of finding and implementing a changemaking methodology for work at our organization. Here we would like to present the methodology to our partners and audience in Sweden, including the decision makers providing funding to culture in Sweden. The methodology is engaging artists creating participatory [...]
On June 16th, Intercult invited four socially engaged and changemaking women artists and practitioners to present the frame of their community building methodology. Liz Gardiner is an artist, teacher doctoral candidate with the University of the West of Scotland, free-lance consultant specialising in cultural planning and executive director of Fablevision. Liz is interested in arts [...]
We are living in a time of crisis where arts and cultural organisations are marginalised and isolated but it is a fact that they become stronger when they are embedded and supported by their community. How can cultural organisations and individuals increase art in the community and be of help to the wider community? This [...]
Kreativa Europa Desk Kultur/Kulturrådet har intervjuat Iwona Preis, VD på Intercult, om vårat Kreativa Europaprojekt Memory of Water. Memory of Water är ett konstnärslett projekt som utforskar vilken påverkan konstnärer kan ha på post-industriella och sjönära områden i Europa. Konstnärer från flera europeiska länder samarbetade med stads- och kulturplanerare, politiker och engagerade kulturorganisationer för [...]
International cooperations and transnational projects have long since been Intercult’s forté, but times and focus have changed during recent years. We have therefore expanded our focus. For Intercult to remain relevant, on a local, national och international level, we needed to adapt. International projects are no longer the primary interest of our financial beneficiaries and [...]
2021 is here and we are preparing for the last year of the I_Improve project! Time has truly flown by and we are very excited for this last run. A lot has happened these past three years, and to learn as much as possible from our experiences all of the partner organisations have participated in [...]
From 2018, Intercult has been a lead partner in Memory of Water project co- funded by Creative Europe - building upon collaboration of 6 partner cities, based on local participation and co-creation. Memory of Water explores post-industrial cultural heritage on waterfronts in the context of urban planning and community development. Over two years, the participating partners : [...]
More about Memory of Water: https://memoryofwater.online/ https://www.facebook.com/memoryofwaterEU https://www.instagram.com/memoryofwatereu/ MEMORY OF WATER – Series of Webinars 17 November – 16 December 2020 Introducing a programme of webinars that will profile the achievements of six partner cities striving to impact the future of post industrial cultural heritage on the European waterfronts by looking at [...]
