News from Savonia University: Upcoming Online Course
Do you want to anticipate future impacts and drive sustainable change?
Within the Future DiverCities project, we have developed and tested a practical process that supports strategic steps in development work. In this online course, you’ll have the opportunity to apply the Prospective Impact Assessment Process (PIAP) to a real project, using design thinking, foresight tools, and transformative methods to strengthen your capacity as a change-maker. The course is open to all and is designed and led by Savonia University of Applied Sciences.
👉 Learn more about Savonia’s research on PIAP, its background, aspirations, and three main phases of implementation here.
👉 Find more information about the online course here.
The final A dimora exhibition
A dimora is excited to share its final exhibition in Londa!
On September 14th, the works of five selected artists — Andrea Grasselli, Chiara Gambirasio, Gaia Coals, Martina Cioffi, and Samuel Rosi (Muz) — will be unveiled.
The program will span the entire day, inviting visitors to explore their creations: from evocative landscapes to refined sculptures, from projections animating the walls of the old cinema to luminous installations and large-scale decorations.
We are very happy that A dimora will also welcome the special participation of Jasmina Saric, curator of PROSTOR, the ECHN network’s art space twinned with the Londa pilot.
👉 Read more about the project here and visit A dimora’s instagram!
Public Art Lab produced two beautiful short movies about their implementations. You can now watch them:
The River. Narratives from the River Communities of the Elbe
For the third edition of Future DiverCities, Public Art Lab has engaged in a dialogue with the Elbe River in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and the University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde and regional artists and biodiversity experts.
With Sensitive Mapping including field trips and excursions on a solar boat, we have been exploring and generating projects about the myths and legends, bridges and boundaries, the changing scent of the Elbe, migrating crabs and the riverbed as an archive — from April to July 2025.
🎥 Watch the short film about it here.
Biodiversity in Action @TINCON Berlin
Public Art Lab explored the theme of biodiversity in playful workshops during the three-day Biodiversity Lab at the TINCON Festival in Berlin (26–28 May). Activities included Nature Writing in the park, visual statements for climate awareness with Digital Calligraffiti, and the ECHO campaigns. A special highlight was Let’s Ripple: The Butterfly Effect, a workshop led by Craftopia, our Future DiverCities Twinning partner from Thessaloniki, Greece.
🎥 Watch the documentary & dive into TINCON and our implementations there here.
KONTEJNER: SKIN(S)CARE Exhibition Opening
SILVIO VUJIČIĆ (HR) | SKIN(S)CARE
In his project SKIN(S)CARE, artist Silvio Vujičić explores the thin line between care and violence through a self-created cosmetic line. By blending “skin care” with “scars” and “scare”, he reveals the ambivalence of beauty culture and its social and economic conditioning. Using “natural” products that provoke irritation rather than comfort, Vujičić challenges the ideals of health and beauty, turning everyday routines into a critical space of resistance, identity, and artistic expression.
Silvio Vujičić (1978, Zagreb) is a visual artist and fashion designer whose work engages with themes such as clothing fetishes, sexual identity, painting pigments, gardens, poisonous and psychoactive substances, death and transience. He works across the media of printmaking, sculpture, installation and performance, marked by processes of material transformation through emergence and disappearance.
👉 Find out more about the KONTEJNER’s program here.
News from PLAI, Timisoara
Shared Tomorrow | 4-8 September 2025
As part of the Twinning Program, Shared Tomorrow brings together communities to co-create sustainable and inclusive futures. Facilitated by Angela Pisani in collaboration with Bioart Belgium, the program combines hands-on workshops, discussions, and collaborative explorations at Bulb in Gent.
Bioart Belgium – bridging art and science through projects in biodesign, fermentation, mycelium, and more –hosts a functional BSL-1 lab within Bulb’s creative coworking space, where makers and scientists meet. Together, we explore key themes including eco- and biodesign, participatory community engagement, regenerative mindsets, interdisciplinary learning, and future-oriented leadership. From using organic waste in material design to fostering active citizenship, restoring ecosystems, and envisioning creative hubs as “third spaces,” the program equips participants with the tools to lead green and inclusive transitions locally and internationally.
News from La Friche la belle de Mai | CHRONIQUES
Welcome to Marseille, AKS!
At the end of August, CHRONIQUES and La Friche welcomed the AKS team to Marseille as part of the ECHN Twinning Programme. Together, they explored the pilot venue, Crimée Garden, and shared time reflecting on co-construction practices. Through workshops and exchange, they delved into creative methodologies to spark citizen participation and to imagine new ways of driving change collectively.
While experiencing one of the rare five days of rain in Marseille, inspiring ideas emerged, proving that creativity can flourish even under grey skies.
This exchange marks an important step in strengthening connections across the ECHN network and in shaping tools for more inclusive urban futures.
NEWS FROM ATHENS
WORK IN PROGRESS, WORK IN PROCESS
Over the past months, PLEX has been buzzing with concerts, performances, and community activities, all unfolding alongside renovation works and explorations of future uses for the space. In this process, we’ve begun a collaboration with the Athens-based architectural office DECA, co-imagining renovations through sustainable and participatory practices. Together with local stakeholders and the Future DiverCities team, workshops are shaping the vision for PLEX.
On September 26th, PLEX will host a full day of inspiring lectures, workshops, and artistic interventions. Partners from La Friche and CHRONIQUE will also join us – stay tuned for the detailed program!
👉 Follow PLEX and its activities here.
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