A Project Well Travelled
We sincerely want to thank all our partners, contributors, and friends (human and non-human), for these wonderful four years full of learning and unlearning, exploring and discovering, creating and preserving, expressing and listening, wandering and wondering, mapping and being mapped, exhibiting and being moved, gathering and dispersing, picnicking and dreaming, webinar-ing and questioning, sensing and […]
Festivities Under the Siege
Festivities Under Siege – School of the Feral Grounds Closing Conference (Future DiverCities capacity building activities closing), 20–22 May 2026, Krater, Ljubljana The closing event of Future DiverCities’ School of the Feral Grounds took the form of a three-day conference at Krater, Ljubljana, bringing together culture-led ecosocial practitioners from across Europe and beyond. Curated by […]
Future DiverCities Project Closure
Delivered over 4 years, across 8 European cities, with 13 international partners who implemented a series of culture-led ecological regeneration projects, Future DiverCities became a movement showing how culture-led urban regeneration could be a key to more inclusive, equitable, and environmentally adapted common spaces. Led by La Friche La Belle de Mai and focusing on […]
Guidebook: Prospective Impact Assessment Process
Meet PIAP – a practical guide to designing for real, lasting impact A new guidebook from our partner Savonia University of Applied Sciences introduces the Prospective Impact Assessment Process (PIAP) — a hands-on framework for cultural practitioners, urban innovators, and anyone working to drive meaningful change in their communities. What’s inside the guidebook? Futures […]
The School of Feral Grounds – Closing Celebration
This May, join us at Krater — the most charismatic construction site in Europe — for the closing of The School of Feral Grounds. Across three days, the feral grounds will bloom into a planetary garden of unruly kin: architects holding parks open through occupation, lawyers plotting paths toward nature’s liberation, artists dwelling in the […]
Future DiverCities Publication
After four years of Future DiverCities, this publication brings together insights, experiences, and reflections from the pilot sites during that journey. It offers an opportunity to examine how culture-led regeneration can be reconceived in ecological terms, and to consider how such approaches might inform the future development of more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient cities across […]
School of Feral Grounds – 6th Podcast Episode
REPORTING FROM THE FRONT The School of Feral Grounds podcast episode Reporting from the front takes as its starting point a shared experience across the FD network: the increasing difficulty of securing and maintaining physical space for cultural, ecological, and civic practices. Across Europe, partners are encountering a landscape in which even underused, degraded, or […]
New Research Paper published: Concepts for Change-Making
Re-imagining Impact: What Did Future DiverCities Change — and How? How can culture-led regeneration truly make a difference in our cities? And how can we understand its impact before it is too late to adjust course? This research paper by Hannu Autti, Laura Pakarinen and Johanna Partio from Savonia University, presents the results of the […]
MARSEILLE: FUTURE DIVERCITIES FINAL EVENT
Cultures in Regeneration: Urban Ecologies in the Making Over four years, Future DiverCities brought together cultural organisations, artists, researchers, municipalities, and local communities in eight European cities to explore culture-led ways of regenerating the ecology of unused urban spaces, through a lens where vacancy is seen as a shared resource: a space for experimentation, for biodiversity to […]
Boiling Media Art
An evening for works in the making at Public Art Lab As part of Vorspiel 2026 initiated by transmediale & CTM celebrating Berlin’s independent art spaces, Public Art Lab invites you to Boiling Media Art on 31st January.This was not a showcase of finished works, but a shared moment of becoming: emerging media artists opened their […]