by Cécile Houpert | Dec 1, 2022 | News, Peer learning visits
A large and populous urban environment, Krakow suffers from a lack of easily accessible green spaces. As well as ecological and climate concerns, this means a lack of places for community to meet and engage spontaneously. Developing large-scale green areas is costly...
by Cécile Houpert | Nov 8, 2022 | News
That time of the year has arrived again, and the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2023 are open for submissions! The deadline to send submissions is closing on 5 December. Europe’s most inspiring architects, craftsmen, cultural heritage experts,...
by Cécile Houpert | Sep 27, 2022 | Cultural heritage for sustainable development, Good practices
Stockholm, Sweden. Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed. When an exhibition or performance ends, a lot of material is left over or thrown away simply because of a lack of space. In Stockholm, several cultural institutions and museums opened a...
by Cécile Houpert | Sep 15, 2022 | News, Peer learning visits
Helsinki is undergoing an accelerated urban development, which has filled commercially attractive sites and left some in-fill plots in former industrial areas too costly to repurpose. But in the municipality’s view, abandoned buildings can be used as cultural...
by Cécile Houpert | Sep 14, 2022 | News
In Krakow, “Pocket parks” are miniature parks built by the Krakow Municipality in close cooperation and consultation with local people in formerly neglected outdoor public spaces, promoting community encounters and providing healthful spaces. They also have ecological...
by Cécile Houpert | Sep 7, 2022 | News
The European Commission published a new report on strengthening cultural heritage resilience to protect it from the effects of climate change. The information gathered by a group of experts is alarming, as climate change is, directly and indirectly, threatening all...
by Cécile Houpert | Sep 7, 2022 | Cultural heritage for sustainable development, Good practices
Dresden, Germany. Guidelines for sustainability in the cultural sector. Dresden’s Culture Development Plan identified climate protection and sustainability as crosscutting issues that should be addressed by the cultural sector with cross-sectoral action planning. The...
by Cécile Houpert | Sep 1, 2022 | Cultural heritage for sustainable development, Good practices
Berlin, Germany. Turning a wasteland into a popular urban park. Left abandoned for decades, the former freight station at Gleisdreieck, located in the heart of Berlin, had become a vast industrial wasteland, where an outstanding and unique ecological environment had...
by Cécile Houpert | Sep 1, 2022 | Cultural heritage for sustainable development, Good practices
Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. Bosk: a giant art installation of 1,000 walking trees. Leeuwarden was the European Capital of Culture (ECoC) in 2018, with iepen mienskip (open community) as its central theme. This experience drove Leeuwarden to adopt a new culture policy...
by Cécile Houpert | Sep 1, 2022 | Cultural heritage for sustainable development, Good practices
Lille, France. A temporary exhibition as an example of an emerging sustainable museum model. Experience Goya is the first eco-friendly exhibition of the Museum of Fine Arts in Lille. The exhibition was open from October 2021 to February 2022. It was perceived as a...
