WEDNESDAY, 14th October
Introduction & City study walks
Opening of the travelling academy & city study walks around civic participation and digital - get inspired, meet kraków innovators!
12 am - 1 pm
Welcome and registration
Welcome Coffee & Snacks
1 pm - 2 pm
Introduction of the Travelling Academy
Opening – representatives of International Culture Center – Agata Wąsowska-Pawlik, Deputy Director for Programme Policy, Anna Gawron, former Deputy Director for Organisational Affairs & former ENCC President
ENCC president Ivo Peeters, ENCC Board member Piotr Michałowski and coordinator Sylvine Bois-Choussy.
Introduction of the topic.
2 pm - 5.30 pm
City walks: Civic participation, digitalisation and audience development in Krakow: meet the locals!
Each walk will allow participants to travel through several aspects of the topic of the Travelling academy, through meetings with a diversity of local stakeholders: How does digitalisation impacts aspects of civic participation and culture in their dimensions of education, audience developments, public space, social and economic inclusion?
We will propose you 3 paths through the city to meet brilliant people and organisations, and in order to make your experience more dynamic and playful, we will give you some challenges on the way!
On the side of the Travelling academy programme…
7 pm - 9 pm
Social evening
When the Travelling Academy official programme will finish, you will probably desire to rest and relax. But still, being in the Heart of Polish history and culture, you can profit for its best! If you feel like knowing Kraków by night and continuing your travel with us, you will surely find us in PASAŻ coffee, located just couple of minutes from International Culture Centre.
We will wait you with nice talks, good moods and a hot wine.
ENCC Evening meeting point – Wednesday and Thursday: PASAŻ caffe
THURSDAY, 15th October
Civic participation & digitalisation: what is at stake for cultural centers? – Explore challenges and innovation potentials for cultural centers.
8.30 am – 9 am
Welcome coffee
9 am - 11 am
Introduction
City tour groups feedback on the previous day, projection
Opening of the day and introduction of the topic Elisa Lironi – ECAS + Jan Strycharz, Koduj dla Polski / Code for Poland
10.30 am – 11 am
Coffee break
11 am - 1 pm
Meet an innovator and… explore audience development, education, city dynamics challenges.
3 topical workshops will be proposed with 3 forward thinking stakeholder and experts in each. Each will start with the presentation of her/his practice who will share his projects, but also his innovation process, questions, etc. and enter in a discussion with the group around the topic and the participants experience.
Re-inventing audience development and cultural participation
Oriol Fontdevila – Sdevenir Públic (“Becoming Public”) is conceived as an experiment that revolves around publics, but above all around the public mission of the museum. A museum becomes public when the audience or general public starts to produce it, becoming one of its mediators and helping to shape its policies.
Education and learning for young people in a digital world
The general aim of this session would be to present research findings on youth with the focus „cultural participation”. We will show how younger generations differ in the understanding of what culture is and how they approach “consuming” cultural offerings. We will mainly tackle the technological change and its influence on modern practices; and analyze specific requirements they pose on successful cultural offerings. The session is thought to have practical implications for cultural producers and managers – to operationalize the research we will present five main categories that we perceive as specific lens that can aid the process of creation of cultural products aimed and younger audiences. Furthermore we will invite the participants to test those categories by analyzing their own practice in search for space to improve and innovate.
The workshop will be held by Jan Strycharz.
Re-inventing cities: towards new forms of participation?
Citizens are more and more ready and willing to get involved in the making of their territories, in contributing to decision making, in inventing new forms of getting together, of solidarity, of cultural practices. What is the role of cultural centres regarding these dynamics?
Civic Lab Association’s mission is the developement of the participatory democracy. They are testing and implementing new models and tools of civic engagement in the making of the city. Małgorzata Spasiewicz-Bulas will talk about two experimental projects on participatory diagnosis and planning – one in the block of flats neighbourhood and the other in two districts of Cracow. She will share the challenges they face, the succeses and failiures. Małgorzata will also invite the participants to discuss the posiible ways of the involvement of the cultural centres in such projects.
1 pm - 2.30 pm
Lunch
2.30 pm - 4.30 pm
Workshops in groups: Building cooperation, implementing innovation in our models.
Building on the exchange of the previous workshop, this session will invite participants to come back to their practice, identify what are their own challenges, which cooperation to build regarding this.
On the side of the Travelling academy programme…
5 pm - 7 pm
Training session & workshops
Training session: Human centered design to build innovative projects and work with audiences.
Human-centered design is a creative approach to project design and problem solving; it is a process that starts with the people you’re designing for and ends with new solutions that are tailor made to suit their needs. It is applicable to local or international cooperation projects, to audience development projects or to generate new ideas within your team. Human-centered design is all about building a deep empathy with the people you’re designing for and generating new ideas. The main idea of Design Thinking and Human Centered Design will be introduced, emphasizing three different stages of working on any given problem: Hear-Create-Deliver. We would also invite the group to test some tools for awakening empathy and translating it to actual information. To wrap up the workshop we will facilitate the groups work on creating the framework for any project using behavioral insights uncovered in the process of empathizing.This training will help you to develop your leadership and project skills.
Information session: Amateo, The week of Amateur arts
Amateo is the European network for active participation in cultural activities. The organisation was established in 2008 and is registered as an international organisation in Ghent. Currently, AMATEO has 23 member organisations from 14 EU states. These member organisations are all active within the fields of theatre, music, choirs, arts and crafts, film, dance, etc. In this workshop, they want to present us the organisation, their projects and search for links and cooperation possibilities with other participants.
Networking session: Polish networking
This session is an invitation for polish cultural stakeholders attracted by the idea of networking. Networking (building cooperation) leads to establishing of the formal and informal federations of organizations with equal purposes, and thus enables to reinforce the voice of the community, allows to elaborate the recommendations and the impact on cultural policy. At the same time, networking strengthens the identity and is developing core competencies: trust, empathy and building cooperation. Thinking about networking beyond the borders in context of the local communities, provinces or countries, one can think about those elements. On the one hand, common goals enable building projects and project partnerships for important joint actions. On the other hand, allows one to work out statements and consensus in the field of cultural policies at the international level. International networking then, helps to open up for communities from different countries. Workshop leaders: Ewa Zbroja (National Center for Culture, Poland), expert in a field of networking and Piotr Michałowski (Wandering Cultural Forum LOWER SILESIA, Poland), Forum secretary general, consultant for strategic development and networking.
Workshop 1: Building a project around Migrations
A group of ENCC members will continue its work on a project around the receiving of migrant populations. The aim is to work on the conditions for the receiving and integration of a diversity of population in local, urban neighbourhoods of Europe (Brussels, Zagreb, Linz, Warshaw, Berlin, Terni, Athens, …). To do so, they will design a project allowing to experiment, to share practices and to debate on this subject, between cultural and social centers, but also maybe local authorities, etc.
Workshop 2: Building a project around Rural issues
This workshop will gather the partners of Vital Village, a project on the revitalisation of rural areas through culture.
Rural versus urban, sounds so easy, but is so diverse to define. Many countries went in the last fifty years through a process of fusions from several smaller villages into larger political units, sometimes around one bigger centre, sometimes with equal localities. Enlarging scales to improve service!
In many of those countries this has led to significant changes in the populations: young people left their small village to live in the bigger centres; older people never identified themselves with their new bigger community. Instead of being ideal areas where community life flourishes and people like to return to after a day of work in the nearest city, villages in rural areas are losing vitality.
Often the small local community house is the only meeting place for the inhabitants. Quite often they are located far away from city centres with their lively cultural and artistic scenes and not included in the overall cultural policy of those larger political entities.
But there is hope. All over Europe we see initiatives from cultural actors and cultural centres to come out of their central venues and to start participatory work in those smaller villages, sometime with the accent on community “art”, sometime more on socio cultural work and processes. Only a few of those initiatives develop from project work to structural work; from one-shot initiatives to real networking and systematic support.
Workshop 3: Building a project around Cities and tourism
To be confirmed
7 pm - 9 pm
Social evening
When the Travelling Academy official programme will finish, you will probably desire to rest and relax. But still, being in the Heart of Polish history and culture, you can profit for its best! If you feel like knowing Kraków by night and continuing your travel with us, you will surely find us in PASAŻ coffee, located just couple of minutes from International Culture Centre.
We will wait you with nice talks, good moods and a hot wine.
ENCC Evening meeting point – Wednesday and Thursday: PASAŻ caffe
FRIDAY, 16th of October
Civic participation & digitalisation: what is at stake for cultural centers? – Explore challenges and innovation potentials for cultural centers.
8.30 am – 9 am
Welcome coffee
9.30 am - 11 am
20 minutes coffee and conversations with...
Somewhere between a speed dating and a living library, this session will offer participants a friendly opportunity to meet with several key stakeholders and discuss topics and projects that are currently at work within the network or with our partners.
6 practitioners and experts will sit at 6 different tables to share their experience, tools and projects with you. Every 20 minutes, participants will change table. The purpose of this session is not to enable everyone to discover everything about everybody. It is, rather, to create energy and space so that participants can get to know a little about people and work that interest them, and exchange key ideas, important stories, etc. Imagine you’d meet with a great book and had only 20 minutes to read it; where would you start?
Sharing practices and ideas around the refugee situation
Eleonore Hefner (German Sociocultural Association, DE)
How do “Soziokulturelle Zentren” address the current refugee situation? What is the specific role of cultural centers? How helpful are trans-cultural expertise? Which collaborations to build? What to experiment?
Come and share your practices, ideas and motivations.
Rethinking future models for cultural centers
Søren Søeborg (Danish Association of Cultural Centres, DK) – REcCORD Project
RECcORD is a “Research and Action” project focussing on the future of Cultural Centres in Europe, in a context of globalisation, of changing societies and cultures: What are the factors that will be impacting them? What are the innovation perspectives in their models, their role, their impact within their audiences, their societies and their territories? The project is based on an innovative and bottom-up research process combining a programme of qualitative and quantitative research, job exchange and informal education.
Meet Søren and hear more about the possibilities of being an active part of the project!
Supporting the strengthening of the Greek cultural sector, developing and collaborations with Greek stakeholders.
Jennifer Tharr (Bundesvereinigung Soziokultureller Zentren e.V. DE) –Start Project
stART is a fellowship and training program for Greek graduates seeking an advanced level of qualification in international cultural management. The program supports up-and-coming cultural managers who wish to start youth culture initiatives in their local communities. The aim of stART is to promote individual initiative among young people in Europe. stART is a program of the Robert Bosch Stiftung conducted in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki and the Bundesvereinigung Soziokultureller Zentren e.V. (German Network of Community Art Centres).
Meet Jennifer and develop new connections!
Some questions and ideas around European cooperation programmes?
Sylvine Bois-Choussy, Kasia Skowron (ENCC, BE) – Project Clinic
Some questions about European programmes ? Some ideas to develop? Come and share with us, we might be able to help and share our experience with you!
11 am –11.30 am
Coffee break
11.30 am - 1.30 pm
Training session & workshops
Training session: Human centered design to build innovative projects and work with audiences.
Human-centered design is a creative approach to project design and problem solving; it is a process that starts with the people you’re designing for and ends with new solutions that are tailor made to suit their needs. It is applicable to local or international cooperation projects, to audience development projects or to generate new ideas within your team. Human-centered design is all about building a deep empathy with the people you’re designing for and generating new ideas. The main idea of Design Thinking and Human Centered Design will be introduced, emphasizing three different stages of working on any given problem: Hear-Create-Deliver. We would also invite the group to test some tools for awakening empathy and translating it to actual information. To wrap up the workshop we will facilitate the groups work on creating the framework for any project using behavioral insights uncovered in the process of empathizing.This training will help you to develop your leadership and project skills.
Networking session: Polish networking
This session is an invitation for polish cultural stakeholders attracted by the idea of networking. Networking (building cooperation) leads to establishing of the formal and informal federations of organizations with equal purposes, and thus enables to reinforce the voice of the community, allows to elaborate the recommendations and the impact on cultural policy. At the same time, networking strengthens the identity and is developing core competencies: trust, empathy and building cooperation. Thinking about networking beyond the borders in context of the local communities, provinces or countries, one can think about those elements. On the one hand, common goals enable building projects and project partnerships for important joint actions. On the other hand, allows one to work out statements and consensus in the field of cultural policies at the international level. International networking then, helps to open up for communities from different countries. Workshop leaders: Ewa Zbroja (National Center for Culture, Poland), expert in a field of networking and Piotr Michałowski (Wandering Cultural Forum LOWER SILESIA, Poland), Forum secretary general, consultant for strategic development and networking.
Workshop 1: Building a project around Migrations
A group of ENCC members will continue its work on a project around the receiving of migrant populations. The aim is to work on the conditions for the receiving and integration of a diversity of population in local, urban neighbourhoods of Europe (Brussels, Zagreb, Linz, Warshaw, Berlin, Terni, Athens, …). To do so, they will design a project allowing to experiment, to share practices and to debate on this subject, between cultural and social centers, but also maybe local authorities, etc.
Workshop 2: Building a project around Rural issues
This workshop will gather the partners of Vital Village, a project on the revitalisation of rural areas through culture.
Rural versus urban, sounds so easy, but is so diverse to define. Many countries went in the last fifty years through a process of fusions from several smaller villages into larger political units, sometimes around one bigger centre, sometimes with equal localities. Enlarging scales to improve service!
In many of those countries this has led to significant changes in the populations: young people left their small village to live in the bigger centres; older people never identified themselves with their new bigger community. Instead of being ideal areas where community life flourishes and people like to return to after a day of work in the nearest city, villages in rural areas are losing vitality.
Often the small local community house is the only meeting place for the inhabitants. Quite often they are located far away from city centres with their lively cultural and artistic scenes and not included in the overall cultural policy of those larger political entities.
But there is hope. All over Europe we see initiatives from cultural actors and cultural centres to come out of their central venues and to start participatory work in those smaller villages, sometime with the accent on community “art”, sometime more on socio cultural work and processes. Only a few of those initiatives develop from project work to structural work; from one-shot initiatives to real networking and systematic support.
1.30 pm – 2.30 pm
Lunch
2.30 pm - 4.30 pm
Plenary public Forum, Closing and evaluation of the Travelling academy
