What role can art play in addressing social inequality? We investigate socio-artistic practices as spaces for dialogue and civic engagement, examining how art mediation can contribute to social justice in diverse urban contexts. Using approaches like soft cartography, we explore how cultural interventions can open up new forms of urban citizenship.
Our projects.
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Making public(s). Cultural mediation as public practice
In this project, we mapped the ways in which cultural workers develop social and artistic strategies of mediation, and how the relationship between artistic practice, audience(s), and context is navigated.
Music for social impact: practitioners’ contexts, work and beliefs
In this international project, a cross-cultural analysis was made of Socially Impactful Music Making (SIMM) activities and their practitioners.
BIP COMMON GROUND
This international exchange and exhibition project hosted by Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and the U!REKA Lab: Urban Commons, braught together interdisciplinary students, teachers, and practitioners to share ideas exploring the intersection of arts, social work, and urban contexts.
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Griet Verschelden
Public art practices, cultural mediation, child-friendly policy, sustainable urban development
Lieze De Middeleir
Art and cultural mediation, new urban governance, youth and culture, public art practices