The launching idea came from Praga Culture Centre from Warsaw in Poland, in an old neighborhood waiting to be renovated. The Cultural center proposed to the inhabitants workshops about decorative crafts such as batik, ceramic, soil painting. Since, they decided to bring this project to European level in a Grundtvig educative partnership. Each partner organize local workshops and a transnational meeting. It widen the project to all that could enhanced urban spaces and quality of life for its inhabitants. A blog, a photo exhibition, a photo guide, a photo edition, an e-book ”users manual” will be realized by the partners.
Objectives and activities :
- To establish an international network of organizations and institutions working with local communities for social and cultural benefits of the local neighborhoods.
- To support participants of the project to develop their skills and enrich their knowledge related to arts and crafts in urban spaces.
- To integrate local communities whose members are involved in transforming and re-creating their neighborhoods.
- To engage in the project participants from socialy disadvantaged communities and enable adults with fewer opportunities to travel abroad and acquire new skills and knowledge.
- To transform local neighborhoods (backyards, squares, balconies, staircases) into enjoyable meeting places which create a sense of belonging for the members of local communities.
We’ll organize open meetings related to the main activities of the project (open for participants of international exchanges but also for other members of local communities) :
- How to organize urban gardening ? How to grow and take care of flowers, plants?
- How to revive and transform neighborhoods (backyards, squares, balconies, staircases), exchanging good practices, experiences and ideas ?
- How to encourage local communities to participate in such actions and co-create their surroundings ? Arts and crafts workshops :
- Creating wooden and ceramic flowers pots, decorating flower pots.
- Creating ceramic and glass mosaics.
- Silk painting workshops.
- Batik workshops.
- Recycling and up-cycling – using a variety of used materials to create toys, benches, garden furniture, lanterns and other items to decorate neighborhoods.
- Transforming neighborhoods;
- Decorating staircases, with silk painting, batik works, handmade flowers, pots, etc.
- Decorating backyards/pavements with mosaics, eg depicting chess or hopscotch boards.
- Installing toys, benches, garden furniture lanterns and other items created by workshop participants, which could decorate backyards, squares, balconies and staircases.
- Creating murals : painting postcard murals depicting landscapes of partner countries or making interactive murals reflecting eg local lifestyle.
#####Croatia - Narodno sveuciliste Dubrava
#####France - Les Jardins d’Aujourd’hui
#####Poland - Dom Kultury Praga
#####Romania - Asociația uzinaduzina
##Financed by:
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. Re-Create your Neighborhood European ID project is 2013-1-PL1-GRU06-38794 7.