Read our latest publication: New Perspectives for Action: A Compendium of Pilot Studies, gathering sixteen written contributions from the partner organisations of Re-Imagine Europe: New Perspectives for Action as a reflection on the four-year project. The studies take many forms – essays, interviews, survey outcomes and glossaries – reflecting the range of working methods and experiments across the consortium. Together, they serve as a collection of models, guides, or tools for current and future generations of cultural institutions and collectives, artists and other contributors. They are grouped thematically into five clusters.

Re-Imagine Europe: New Perspectives for Action (2023– 2027) is a four-year co-creation and circulation project shared between fourteen interdisciplinary art organisations throughout Europe. The project’s aim has been to equip and empower young Europeans through artistic practices, allowing them to better withstand societal challenges triggered by the rapid advance of climate change. To achieve this, the project supports initiatives that respond to the needs of artists, organisations, and audiences alike, developing cultural tools, formats, and frameworks that can travel across contexts and generations.

Building on the first Re-Imagine Europe project (2017–2021), this iteration deepens the commitment to artistic experimentation as a means of civic engagement. Where the earlier project focused substantially on audience development and capacity building, New Perspectives for Action extends this into the terrain of co-creation: how cultural organisations can not just reach audiences but genuinely involve them, alongside artists and institutions, in shared processes of transformation.

With a diverse range of topics the compedium has been divided into different thematics:

The Mutual Audience: When Participants Become Artists and Teachers

Existing with Care: The Right to Difference and Cultural Space

Open Source, Open Struggle: Sharing the Tools for Creative Resistance

Listening Grounds: Tuning In as Ecological and Political Practice

Experimenting with Cultural Multitudes: Building Community and Solidarity

Context

These texts are pilot studies of Re-Imagine Europe: New Perspectives for Action. In these contributions we explore and reflect on artistic practices and experimental approaches in the cultural field that can engage and activate audiences and communities to address eco- logical, social, and political challenges. The pilot studies provide an overview of practices of cultural organisations that can serve as models, recipes, or tools for transformation for current and future generations of cultural workers and artists.

Read the compendium directly on our website here