TEXTURE EN 2015

The spaces of contemporary cities are undergoing a crisis, revealing itself in the difficulty of giving new sense and purposes to the different locations in the urban context. These spaces gradually disconnected from the dynamics of social interaction and from value creation processes.

In this context, appropriate strategies become fundamental in order to reconnect these spaces to the city and to give them back to their community, as essential places. Culture can be the right driver, moving the boundaries of imagination and generating new senses. Cultural activities engage persons’ active participation and and may give an important contribution to this phenomenon, drawing connective networks in the cities. The circulation of cognitive fluxes (art, knowledge, creativity) can stimulate new visions and create new projects.

Performing interventions may be real drivers of re-generation thanks to their ability to tell which are the re-defining purposes and features of urban spaces. Involved spaces turn then into places proposing experiences of relationship and knowledge, living emotional and sensory perceptive experiences that leave traces in their memory. City Heritage becomes itself Performing Heritage thanks to its elements that create relationships and that become environments in which learning, sharing and exchanging knowledge. While providing new cultural contents, these environments strengthen the sense of belonging, the social inclusion and the skills to develop a community.

Creactivitas and Alto Fest in collaboration with the Embassy of the Netherlands, promote an international workshop about these themes. In a multi-disciplinary perspective operators coming form different countries will compare their experiences and will work with experts from several fields in order to identify the possible routes and the spaces for the intervention of culture, through performing projects, to lead the transformation and future development of cities through the modification of the spaces, creating new senses.

Keywords: culture-led regeneration, city, culture and development, performing heritage, artistic events
Partners: Naples International Airport
Format: the structure of the event is based on three activities:

Awareness and divulgationA workshop, open to the community of the territory. A comparison of experiences and best practices in cultural project aiming to urban regeneration

Co-DesigningA co-designing workshop in which Italian and foreign experts, from different fields, will debate in order to find solutions and paths.

Active reporting e digital storytellingThrough the use of digital applications and social media (Storify, Twitter, Prezi, Murally, Facebook and Instagram), In real time, Creactivitas team will provide a digital storytelling and will do an dynamic and interactive report about the development of works, in order to let it be at the community’s disposal.

Strategic purposes: starting an international permanent workshop to develop research and cooperation projects activities about culture and creativity led urban regeneration.

Project managers Fabio Borghese (Creactivitas), Bas Ernst (Ambasciata del Regno dei Paesi Bassi), Anna Gesualdi (TeatrInGestAzione)

Program – Go to [FOLD]

5.30pm
Workshop

Venue: Riot Studio via San Biagio dei Librai, 39

Welcoming and introduction by:

Fabio Borghese, Creactivitas http://www.creactivitas.org/
Bas Ernst, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Embassy of Rome
Anna Gesualdi, Artistic Direction Alto Fest www.altofest.net

Welcoming by RIOT studio

Prof. Fabio Borghese will be coordinating the discussion

Speakers’ presentations

Netherlands: Het Weem Theater – Anne Breure – Director
http://hetveemtheater.nl/

Italy: Università Federico II – Facoltà di Archittettura – Docente di Urbanistica Michelangelo Russo
https://www.docenti.unina.it/michelangelo.russo

Greece: Dourgouti Island Hotel Project – Eirini Alexiou
http://www.dourgouti.gr/

Czech Republic: Arts and Theatre Institute – International Cooperation and PR Department -Barbora Doležalová
www.idu.cz
www.theatre.cz

Argentina: Plataforma LODO – Marina Quesada
http://www.lodo.com.ar/

Greece: Vyrsodepseio and AthenSyn – Katja Ehrhardt
http://www.vyrsodepseio.com/
http://www.athensyn.com/

Italy: Liminaria – Leandro Pisano
http://www.liminaria.org/

Croatia: Eurokaz – Ivona Filipovic Grcic
http://www.eurokaz.hr/

Italy: Critique Panel Alto Fest – Silvia Mei
http://www.airdanza.it/curricula/mei.htm

6.30pm OPEN DISCUSSION

8.00pm Closing

Programma – Vai al [FOLD]

17:30
Workshop

Luogo: Riot Studio via San Biagio dei Librai, 39

Benvenuto ed introduzione:
Fabio Borghese, Creactivitas 

http://www.creactivitas.org/
Bas Ernst, Ambasciata dei Paesi Bassi di Roma
Anna Gesualdi, Direzione Artistica Alto Fest www.altofest.net
saluti del RIOT studio
modera il prof. Fabio Borghese

Speakers’ presentations
Olanda: Het Weem Theater – Anne Breure
http://hetveemtheater.nl/

Italia: Università Federico II – Facoltà di Archittettura – Michelangelo Russo
https://www.docenti.unina.it/michelangelo.russo

Grecia: Dourgouti Island Hotel Project – Eirini Alexiou
http://www.dourgouti.gr/

Repubblica Ceca: Arts and Theatre Institute – Barbora Doležalová
www.idu.cz
www.theatre.cz

Argentina: Plataforma LODO – Marina Quesada
http://www.lodo.com.ar/

Grecia: Vyrsodepseio e AthenSyn – Katja Ehrhardt
http://www.vyrsodepseio.com/
http://www.athensyn.com/

Italia: Liminaria – Leandro Pisano
http://www.liminaria.org/

Croazia: Eurokaz – Ivona Filipovic Grcic
http://www.eurokaz.hr/

Italia: Osservatorio Critico Alto Fest – Silvia Mei
http://www.airdanza.it/curricula/mei.htm

18.30 Open Discussion
20.00 Chiusura dei lavori