Efforts to sustain communities in the engagement with their tangible and intangible heritage are always welcome and a priority for EC and the European Union at large. For this reason, various projects are funded that deal with protecting, engaging and disseminating local heritage. One of these, which recently WEAVE met for establishing mutual cooperation, is ECHO II.
“Allegro”. 2021. Artist: Remzije Lloga. Source: ECHO II website. License: CC BY-SA 4.0.
ECHO II: Traditions in Transition is a project co-founded by Creative Europe Culture which emanates from a deeper need to support and realize the concept of the EU motto “united in diversity”. In particular, traditions constitute parts of local identities that are defined by the use, re-use, change and transformation of traditions in the course of community life. These traditions shape and are shaped by the group and significantly determine their culture. The existence of significant traditions is a common element among European people. Re-exploring and revisiting traditions through a new lens can benefit communities and mobilise them in order to reconsider existing perceptions of static traditions that need to be protected and reintroduce these traditions in their group life. ECHO II focuses on Traditions in Transition, as an alternative viewpoint to the established concept that tradition is fixed and in need of protection and as such we have to preserve it as an object of musealisation. Alternatively, ECHO II sustains that in order to keep alive local traditions that are important for the ingroups, it is more fruitful to understand and accept their changing, dynamic character according to the each- time needs of the communities. ECHO II aims at tightening and promoting the link between artistic creation and local traditions, enabling contemporary artistic creation based on cultural elements from different European communities
Website: https://echo-ii.eu
From the achievements reached by Pilot project Creative FLIP (2019-2021), co-funded by the EU, “FLIP – Finance, Learning, Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights for CCS” was arose; this new phase of Creative FLIP will be running from 2021-2023 with the goal of building a stronger resilience of the cultural and creative sector, by further strengthening their overall ecosystem.
Heritage science brings together the human, social, fundamental, digital, and engineering sciences and deals with the study of cultural heritage, contributing to the identification, understanding, preservation, restoration, and transmission of cultural heritage, be it tangible, intangible, natural or digital.
The second call for papers was launched by Exarc for the conference “A Sustainable Revolution for Open-Air Museums” that will be held at Butser Ancient Farm in southern England next 19-20 May 2020.
HUB-IN is an EU H2020 project focused on the transformation and regeneration of historic urban areas (HUAs) while preserving their unique cultural and social identity and environment.
On the occasion of Dante’s year celebrations, Ravenna Municipality paid homage to the Great Poet by renewing the spaces of his museum in a more interactive and immersive way. The project was assigned to Touchwindow, a specialized company which focuses on digital transformation and innovation aimed at user engagement. Two were the main tasks of the project: re-defining aesthetic guidelines (including the museum’s visual identity) and re-functionalizing all museum’s spaces. For achieving the best result, a whole technological refitting of the exhibition rooms was designed with the clear purpose of offering a unique customer experience: a combination of spectacular immersive projections, audio systems equipped with proximity sensors and customized software for maximizing the impact of interactive contents.
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