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SPACEX · Spatial Practices in Art and ArChitecture for Empathetic EXchange (SPACEX)

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2020-03-01 → 2025-12-31
EU contribution
€690,000
Participants
32
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

Spatial Practices in Art and ArChitecture for Empathetic EXchange (SPACEX)

The Spatial Practices in Art and Architecture for Empathetic Exchange (SPACEX) project responds to the challenges posed by the rise of populist nationalism and conflict in European societies. SPACEX aims to engage diverse communities through cultural activities, fostering an environment that celebrates and embraces diversity within cities, towns, and urban sites. The goal of SPACEX is to establish a European-wide knowledge exchange network aimed at showcasing how spatial practices influence public exchange and shape opinion formation within urban environments. By promoting empathetic and inclusive modes of coexistence, the project seeks to foster harmonious living. This initiative unites researchers from the higher education sector with cultural organizations to delve into how culture can facilitate a more cohesive society. The SPACEX consortium is composed of 29 beneficiaries, including 13 universities and academies, as well as 16 cultural organizations such as museums, galleries, and arts organizations, spanning across 11 EU countries with one partner in Palestine. This diverse composition empowers SPACEX researchers to engage in secondments across a spectrum of esteemed academic institutions, research institutes, arts organizations, biennials, urban agencies, and even a film festival. SPACEX overall objectives: • To create new art, architecture, and design projects in public space, and measure and document how these practices intervene in urban space to promote new and inclusive ways of living together. • To understand how both new and historical new art, architecture, and design projects generate an informal approach to producing new subjectivities and enabling community and the commons to thrive. • To analyse historical and concurrent knowledge stored in archives on the role spatial practices play in addressing issues of democratic exchange and conflict resolution. • To create new knowledge that can be utilised to inform and shape future cultural and social policy and the practice of urban planning and the production of empathetic communities.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

Spatial Practices in Art and ArChitecture for Empathetic EXchange (SPACEX) is a transdisciplinary research action that utilises secondments between academic institutions and third sector organisations in order to scope and map European spatial practices. It provides a body of findings that can be easily accessed by commissioning agencies, policy makers and publics through its open source web-site (spacex-rise.eu). SPACEX aims to test, map, analyse, communicate and maximise the ways in which spatial practices in art, architecture and design instigate public exchange and promote empathetic ways of living together in urban space. It responds to the troubling rise of populist nationalism and conflict in European societies by engaging new publics and forging a culture that embraces diversity, difference, and discursive exchange within cities, towns and urban sites. The lack of interdisciplinary knowledge by those working in the cultural sector has significantly affected the way in which the social benefit of cultural activities is understood, articulated and applied. SPACEX proposes that inventing new and inclusive ways of living together, requires the implementation of new transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral practices and methods, that connect spatial practice with cultural sociology, cultural policy, critical pedagogies and behavioural economics. The comprehensive transdisciplinary composition of the SPACEX consortium- 27 partners in 9 EU countries and 1 TC, Palestine – will enable its ERs and ESRs to undertake secondments in a range of world-renowned academic institutions, research institutes, arts organisations, biennials, urban agencies, a film festival and a creative media agency.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION · NorthamptonCoordinatorUnited Kingdom
  • A RESERVA NA FABRICA ASSOCIACAO PARRA A CRIATIVIDADE MEDIACAO CULTURALE EMPREENDEDORISMO · OEIRASPortugal
  • AA & U FOR ARCHITECTURE, ART AND URBANISM LIMITED · NicosiaCyprus
  • AKADEMIE VYTVARNYCH UMENI V PRAZE · PrahaCzechia
  • ATHENS BIENNIAL ASTIKI ETAIREIA · ATHENSCity levelGreece
  • COVENTRY BIENNIAL LTD · COVENTRYUnited Kingdom
  • COVENTRY UNIVERSITY · CoventryUnited Kingdom
  • ERGASTIRIO GIA TA ASTIKA KOINA-ASTIKI MI KERDOSKOPIKI ETAIREIA · ATHENSGreece
  • ETHNICON METSOVION POLYTECHNION · ATHINAGreece
  • GALERIE HLAVNIHO MESTA PRAHY · PRAGUECzechia
  • ISTITUTO ITALIANO PER IL FILM DI DOCUMENTAZIONE SOCIALE ETS · FirenzeItaly
  • MAYDAY ROOMS · LondonUnited Kingdom
  • NATIONAL COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN · DublinIreland
  • NORTHAMPTON ARTS COLLECTIVE LIMITED · NORTHAMPTONUnited Kingdom
  • OMILOS ISTORIKOU DIALOGOU KAI EPEUNAS · NicosiaCyprus
  • PROJECT ARTS CENTRE · DublinIreland
  • SIRIUS ARTS CENTRE CLG · CobhIreland
  • STEDELIJK VAN ABBEMUSEUM · EindhovenNetherlands
  • STICHTING CASCO · UtrechtNetherlands
  • STICHTING STROOM DEN HAAG · Den HaagNetherlands
  • TAIDEYLIOPISTO · HELSINKIFinland
  • THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TATE GALLERY · LONDONUnited Kingdom
  • THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART · LondonUnited Kingdom
  • THE WONDER CABINET COMPANY FOR CULTURE AND ARTS · BETHLEHEMPalestinian Territories
  • THRESHOLD STUDIOS LIMITED · NorthamptonCity levelUnited Kingdom
  • TRANSPARADISO ZT KG · WienAustria
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MODENA E REGGIO EMILIA · ModenaItaly
  • UNIVERSITAT FUR ANGEWANDTE KUNST WIEN · WienAustria
  • UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM · AmsterdamNetherlands
  • UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN · DublinIreland
  • UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS · NicosiaCyprus
  • VEREIN ZUR FORDERUNG VON KUNST UNDKULTUR AM ROSA LUXEMBOURG PLATZ EV · BERLINGermany

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union