The project works towards the Green Transition: engaging people, developing low-cost, locally sourced sustainable solutions, and using traditional knowledge and collective creativity to transform their immediate environment in greener ways.
GET is a global community of practice bringing together grassroots cultural organizations, an arts and design university, and architecture studios from Burkina Faso, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Morocco, Malaysia, Mexico, and Sweden. They are interested in exploring the better integration of traditional wisdom, community engagement, placemaking protocols in sustainable architecture, circular design practices, responsible farming, and productive landscaping to develop immediate and flexible transformative interventions towards the green transition of the grassroots cultural sector.
The project is lead by Trans Europe Halles (SE), in collaboration with Institut for X (DE), OCAD University (CA), Culturans (MX), Le plus petit cirque du monde (FR), RTDA Studio (MA), Tamadia (BF), Gardens of the Future (CY) and Borneo Laboratory (MY).
Trans Europe Halles is an international NGO based in Lund, Sweden. A community-driven network of artists, activists, ecologists, their network is a «force of regeneration for neighbourhoods, communities, cities and regions.» They have been repurposing abandoned buildings for arts, culture and activism since 1983.