Inspirational projects

Narratives of Extraction builds and supports institutional capacity by creating an international know-how exchange platform on extractivism and green transition, as seen through a lens of contemporary art and architecture. Narratives of Extraction intertwines North-South perspectives and experiences with the Ukranian and Georgian contexts. The project is a continuation and expansion of two initial phases.

NAARCA envisions artist residencies as leaders in environmental action by practising sustainable behaviours in spaces where private, professional, and public life intertwine. Their aim is to transform this opportunity into a sector-wide responsibility, advocating for genuine change.

Freemuse and network partners in Asia, MENA, Africa, the Americas and Europe will build on existing initiatives and experiences in analysing threats to artistic freedom and to improve and develop joint documentation, monitoring and advocacy, nationally, regionally and internationally.

The objective is to strengthen collaborations by understanding the individual partners’ current capacities, focus areas, and strengths as well as the multiple challenges they face.

Pedagogies of the Rural facilitates experimental knowledge sharing across localities and communities in a global network with focus on peripheral art practices, rural community building, land care and alternative pedagogies.

Sustaining the Otherwise is a research and artistic project about restitution, reparation and transformation, taking place in multiple locations in Europe and Africa. The project offers a space for artists, activists, scholars and writers to be in dialogue and to explore the topic of restitution in relation to both material and immaterial culture. Focusing on artistic practices, the program includes residencies, talks, conferences, publications, performances and exhibitions.

This project seeks to create a network across art practices centered around abandoned psychiatric hospitals in Nordic countries. It seeks to highlight the relation between art, mental health and psychiatry, as well as creating new perspectives on the planning of the areas surrounding these hospitals, now housing artistic communities. 

The objective of this project is to strengthen the capacity to protect, promote and sustainably manage cultural heritage through supporting the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe programme, in a collaborative project between Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Baltic countries.

TING – The Living Allegory is an innovative sound and light installation, gathering data from Nordic parliaments to an evolving being whose well-being mirrors that of democracy. Every voice, protest and political decision gives colour, tone and picture to the allegory, giving an artistic expression to the democratic process.

How can art-science collaborations deepen our understanding of climate challenges? Climate Histories Interventions combines creative and academic voices to inspire public dialogue on climate resilience, promoting environmental awareness through public art interventions. 

Centre for Nordic Otherwise fosters a supportive network and accessible critical frameworks, empowering racialised artists to deepen their socio-political practice and impact within the Nordic art landscape. 

Sand Flight serves as a climate-fictional exploration, raising awareness of environmental vulnerability and fostering artistic dialogue. By challenging traditional urban landscapes and highlighting the shifting boundaries of nature and civilization, the project aims to provoke reflection on ecological fragility and resilience across diverse public audiences. 

 Riddu Riððu Take Over @ Arctic Sounds encourages intercultural dialogue, supporting Indigenous artists in revitalizing and evolving their cultural heritage. By uniting Sámi and Inuit artists on an international stage, the project aims to amplify Indigenous Arctic voices and reinforce sustainable cultural ties in the region. 

The 3Ecologies Project was launched in 2020 by Brian Massumi and Erin Manning. In this ethos of alongsideness, 3Ecologies develops techniques for research-creation at the intersection of the environmental, conceptual and social ecologies.

How can craft & design shape the future & social landscape in the African continent? The Craft & Design pop up academy prototype will address how experimentation with ancient techniques, new materials and disruptive approaches can improve the peri-urban environment and sharpen our social consciousness.

Three performing arts productions each challenge the boundaries between the local and the global in their own way.

The objective of Ecologists at Risk (ER) is to open an independent Residency in Mexico for at-risk ecologists. ER is a next-gen residency programme at the intersection of environmental activism and art/culture.

The AI Parties International brings together AI-driven parties and politicians for a large-scale international artistic work.

“Transnational archives in the Arctic: a cultural exchange of memories” is a project which investigates archive structures about the Arctic, with an aim to decolonize contemporary archive structures by developing alternatives and create dialogue and cultural exchange across and beyond the Arctic region.

Led by Trans Europe Halles, GET is a global community of practice that brings together academics, architects, designers, cultural organisations, and grassroots communities from 9 countries on 4 continents.

The project focuses on the representation of women and minorities among those working behind the artistic scenes in logistics, engineering and production.