INTRODUCTION

This compendium of Pilot Studies gathers 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 art- ists and institutions, in shared processes of transformation. The fourteen partners behind this work – Paradiso and Sonic Acts in The Netherlands, Elevate Festival in Austria, INA grm in France, A4 in Slovakia, Borealis and BEK in Norway, KONTEJNER in Croatia, RUPERT in Lithuania, Disruption Network Lab in Germany, Semibreve in Portugal, Parco Arte Vivente in Italy, Kontrapunkt in North Macedonia, and Radio Web MACBA in Spain – bring a remarkable diversity of practices, publics, and political contexts to the conversation.

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