Over €1 million for urban regeneration. MiBACT launches third edition of Creative Living Lab

Creative Living Lab, the initiative launched in 2018 aimed at funding urban regeneration projects through cultural and creative activities, is back.

MiBACT’s Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity (DGCC) launches the third edition of Creative Living Lab and allocates more than one million euros to support multidisciplinary projects: the aim is to create and redevelop neighborhood spaces within residential areas and support a development model based on collaborative processes and social innovation, centered on key concepts such as interaction, coexistence, everyday life, resilience to pandemics and sustainable communities.

The Public Notice falls within the framework of institutional actions implemented by the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity on urban regeneration in territories experiencing realities of environmental, social, cultural and economic fragility, not necessarily far from the physical urban center, but characterized by difficult accessibility to services and infrastructure. It is intended to initiate a reflection on an issue considered to be of great urgency, such as the lack of quality services and spaces in the different urban realities of the country, useful to welcome individuals and communities in safety and in favorable conditions and to create opportunities to build relationships, confrontation and integration.

"The great success of the first two editions of Creative Living Lab, which saw the participation of more than five hundred territorial realities, demonstrates the validity of an initiative in which MiBACT believes so much that it has increased the budget again, bringing it to more than 1 million euros," says Anna Laura Orrico, Undersecretary of State of MiBACT. “We want to give an opportunity to all those associations that are actively acting on the territory to recover and return abandoned spaces, disused industrial areas and common property to communities, rethinking them with creativity and ingenuity, transforming them into opportunities for sustainable development, social and cultural revitalization.”

The public notice is aimed at public and private nonprofit entities dedicated to contemporary culture and creativity and rooted in peripheral territories, such as public entities, foundations, cultural associations, nonprofit third sector entities, universities, nonprofit research centers, nonprofit social and community enterprises, and organized civil society. Important input from sector experts and cultural mediators such as architects, landscape architects, designers, artists, filmmakers, photographers, musicians, performers, writers, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists.

Creative Living Lab supports micro-projects of immediate implementation, innovative and quality, capable of transforming residual areas and spaces into places of exchange and learning, accessible, usable and functionally differentiated, in order to create a synergistic relationship between the environment and the social, cultural and economic fabric; interventions oriented to the reuse and reorganization of areas dedicated to services, neighborhood equipment and common condominium spaces.

These are the objectives of the third edition of Creative Living Lab: Create spaces equipped for new destinations and activities that can help transform the quality of services and community spaces through contemporary creativity; encourage the involvement of communities local communities in urban regeneration processes oriented towards the enhancement of socio-cultural dynamics of participatory growth and the improvement of the quality of life a local economies; experimenting and disseminating inclusive and aggregative methodologies for resident communities, capable of developing a sense of identity and belonging to places.

Proposals must indicate new forms of use of the chosen places in order to improve services, fruition and cultural functions, to encourage the activation of paths of participation and self-construction through the involvement of institutions, professionals, artists, citizens and active subjects in the area and to promote a system of self-organization from below that is such as to foster a process of empowerment and re-appropriation in the communities involved.

Proposals must be submitted via PEC no later than noon on March 10, 2021.

For more information: creativelivinglab@beniculturali.it

The public notice and all annexes are posted on the DGCC’s institutional website at http://www.aap.beniculturali.it/creativelab.html

Pictured: Ozmo, Holy Mother and Child with upside down heads (2008; Ancona, wall painting, 10 x 16 m)

Over €1 million for urban regeneration. MiBACT launches third edition of Creative Living Lab

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