Faculdade de Ciências Humanas - Universidade Católica Portuguesa FCH-UCP

Faculdade de Ciências Humanas-Universidade Católica Portuguesa | FCH-UCP (PT) is one of the leading institutions in the field of Culture Studies in Portugal, and is widely integrated in international programmes and networks. In 2010 FCH initiated a cultural network with leading national institutions (such as the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Culturgest, the Orient Foundation, Lisbon City Hall, the National Theatre Museum) titled The Lisbon Consortium.

The Lisbon Consortium’s MA Programme in Culture Studies is ranked #3 by the Eduniversal Worldwide Best Masters Ranking in Arts and Cultural Management and has a 60% rate of international students, along with international visiting professors from Universities such as the Freie Universität Berlin, the PUC – S. Paulo, the Universitá Ca Foscari – Venice, the University of Hamburg, among others.

An innovative international learning, research, and practice model, The Lisbon Consortium brings to Portugal the best collaborative practices between the University and cultural institutions. It is based on inter-institutional cooperation and interdisciplinary research, fostering exchange and excellency in cultural activities and cultural entrepreneurship with the Culture Studies MA and PhD programmes at Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon.

Leadership and management of European projects since 2013 include: Culture@Work - A Platform for Collaborative Cultural Exchange (Culture programme - FP7); Erasmus Mobility of Individuals (Erasmus+ Programme – Key Action 1); AETC-Atlantic Erasmus Training Consortium (Erasmus+ Programme – Key Action 1); Erasmus Mobility of Individuals (Lifelong Learning Programme); AETC-Atlantic Erasmus Training Consortium (Lifelong Learning Programme).

Since 2007, the FCH-UCP has had an ongoing research line titled “Art, Culture, and Citizenship”, with a sub-group named “Culture and Conflict”, which organises the core of the former CULCO group. It is currently developing the project “Cultural Citizenship in the 21^st century: Models, Identities, Subjects”. The project takes on a genealogical approach to cultural citizenship and investigates how the concept has been remade in the 21^st century, under which conditions it has gained prominence, how do artistic objects produce a practice-based theory of citizenship, and the role critical discourse plays in this conjuncture. The sub-group is also engaged in the problem-based 'Cultural risks' project, consulting with the DFG funded 'Risk and Literature' initiative, aiming to discuss the entanglements of the idea of risk, as both hazard and stimulus, in the cultural construction of the modern.

 

 

Tensta Konsthall

Tensta konsthall is an art centre in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta. Founded through a grassroots initiative in 1998, it is known to combine a high-profile programme of international contemporary art with an ambition to be a palpable presence in the neighbourhood.

Located in a former storage, Tensta konsthall has commissioned and hosted projects by artists such as Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Doug Ashford, Marie-Louise Ekman, Iman Issa, Sharon Lockhart, Walid Raad, Hito Steyerl, and Ahmet Ögüt, among many others. Often working with inquiries over several years (for example The New Model 2011-205 and The Eros Effect from 2015) – and emphasising the importance of mediation – the Tensta Konsthall is a private foundation with 50% public funding and a six-member team.

Since 2011, Maria Lind has been the director, and the programme has been characterized by the ambition to participate in a national and international exchange on what contemporary art does, and how to work with it.

Some of the central questions that Tensta Konsthall has been tackling since 2011 are the following: how can the potential of art as a form of knowledge be explored in relation to contemporary social situations, such as war and migration? What new social models can art suggest?

 

 

SAVVY Contemporary

SAVVY Contemporary – The Laboratory of Form-Ideas is an independent, non-commercial project space for international visual and performing artists and curators, founded in 2010 by Bonaventure Ndikung in Berlin. In the spirit of Harald Szeemann’s “Agentur für geistige Gastarbeit” (Agency for Spiritual Migrant Work), SAVVY Contemporary sees itself as a laboratory of intellectual, artistic, and cultural development and exchange.

With a series of exhibition projects, discursive platforms, performances, events, archives and publications, SAVVY Contemporary aims at addressing current issues and theoretical nodes in the arts, sociology, philosophy, and sciences, to foster dialogue between the “West” and “non-West” and to stimulate critical discourse on the development of contemporary society.

SAVVY Contemporary is a place where socio-psychological, political, and anthropological topics can blossom in art according to Magnus Hundt’s ”Homo est dei et mundi nodus“ – the human being as an intersection between the creator and the creation. SAVVY Contemporary assumes itself as a fertile ground for critical and intellectual discourse on the development of contemporary art as well as on positions of contemporary art in the diaspora. Due to its historical and geo-political background as a former frontline town in the East-West-conflict, Berlin is particularly stamped by East-West-dialogue. Thereby, other important and leading issues like the North-South-dialogue and its inherent conflicts were ignored for a long while. SAVVY Contemporary takes upon itself this duty to promote and advocate the North-South-dialogue in the art scene in Berlin.

 

 

Royal College of Art

The Royal College of Art (RCA) is the UK partner organisation on the 4Cs programme of work. The RCA is the world’s leading university for Art & Design (2016 QS World University Ranking) with 1.000 professionals interacting with 1.500 Master’s and doctoral students. Staff in the Humanities department have long standing research interests with respect to conflict, including Michaela Crimmin, who is also co-founder and co-director of the not-for-profit community interest organisation, Culture+Conflict (C+C). As an associate partner, Crimmin and C+C bring four years of experience working to research and amplify the value of contemporary visual art produced in response to international conflict. Bringing theory and practice together, activities include events at the RCA and with a range of partners, artists’ commissions, and scholarships.

The RCA, with C+C co-director Michaela Crimmin as principal investigator, was recently supported by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council to build a network of interest around the relationship between art and conflict, undertake research, and deliver a series of events, that culminated in an online journal, Art and Conflict.

 

 

Fundació Antoni Tàpies

Since 1990, The Fundació Antoni Tàpies, created by the artist in 1984, has been working to promote a better understanding of contemporary art and culture.

In line with the critical and aesthetic legacy of Antoni Tàpies, the temporary projects of the Fundació (seminars, exhibitions, cinema and video cycles, concerts, publications, etc.) establish a dialogue between complex artistic practices and Tàpies’ work. These artistic practices, often on the margins of official interpretations, offer a different version of culture and history by presenting a new space and a new way of accessing knowledge, and by opening up the possibility of critical thought vis-à-vis the cultural events of the present. The contemporary experience of art, an experience that no doubt includes but does not limit itself to the contemplation of artworks, should help relate these works to a whole network of events, learning activities and transformations, and create new forms of interaction with the public, new ways of sharing experiences and concepts through a variety of actions and activities. As an internationally renowned art centre and museum, the Fundació Antoni Tàpies has collaborated with diverse national and international institutions like the Museu Serralves, Porto; the Ludwig Museum, Köln, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Witte de With, Rotterdam; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, among others.

During its 25 years of history, Fundació Tapiès has explored  different conflicts related with contemporaneity: Hans Haacke Obra Social explored the economic impact of the Olympic Games in Barcelona; Tous-ismes dealt with tourism understood as a new mobility of capitals, and 1989; After the Argel Talks. The Delayed Peace brings a critical scrutiny study case about the cultural context in the Basque Country during the years marked by the terrorist activity conducted by ETA. The Fundació has understood the space of conflict geographically, politically, economically or relating to social imaginaries, as an opportunity to start a dialogue between the parties, and understanding the museum as a social agent involved in conflict solving strategies.

 

 

Vilnius Academy Of Arts

Vilnius Academy of Arts (VAA) is the largest art university in the Baltic States. Today the Academy has over 1,800 students in four cities – Vilnius, Kaunas, Telšiai, and Klaipėda. Each faculty has its own unique study programmes. Vilnius and Kaunas faculties have a wide collection of programmes in visual and applied arts (Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Photography and Media, Animation, Textile, Ceramics, Glass Art, Stage Design, Fresco-mosaic, Stained Glass, Restoration), design (Graphic, Product, Fashion, Interior), architecture, culture management, and art history. Telšiai Faculty is based on solid craft competences (Metal Art and Jewellery, Furniture Design, and Restoration) and the recently established Klaipėda Faculty offers programmes related to the most current art tendencies (Contemporary Art and Media, Graphic Art, and Interior Design). VAA provides all three university study cycles: Bachelor, Master, Doctor in Arts and Design, and PhD in Art History. The Academy offers 57 study programmes (30 first cycle, 23 second cycle, 3 third cycle, 1 non-degree), which are accredited and registered in the State Study Program Register.

VAA is a member of international networks and associations of European higher education institutions of art and design. The diversity is brought in by international exchange programmes, such as Erasmus+, Nordplus, ELIA, CUMULUS, Worldwide Network of Artist Residencies RES ARTIS, Worldwide Network of Architecture, Interaction Design and Textile Education network ArcInTex. Today the Academy has more than 150 Erasmus+ partners within the EU, with 60 outgoing and 60-70 incoming students each academic year. Around 40 visiting professors per year ensure the development of international expertise and exchange of new ideas of students and staff.

A good example of international collaboration at the Academy is Nida Art Colony (NAC), which is a division of the Vilnius Academy of Arts. It is an art and meeting space surrounded by sand dunes and seas. As a resourceful platform, it runs an Artist-in-Residence Programme, Nida Doctoral School, which is operated together with Aalto Univeristy School of Arts, Design, and Architecture (Helsinki), and initiates art, education, and research projects. The Colony aims at creative confluence of academic and non academic education, artistic, and scientific practices, process and production based ventures. Open all year round, it hosts workshops, intensive courses, conferences, seminars, artist talks, film screenings and performances. The artist-in-residence programme is tailored for experienced and emerging artists, designers, architects, curators, art critics, and researchers from around the world. About 600 people take part in the cultural and educational activities organised and hosted by NAC every year.

VAA and NAC have a long and sustained experience in researching, interpreting, and presenting contemporary social problems with the local past and in building greater understanding of current conflict-induced challenges in Lithuania.

 

 

Museet for Samtidskunst

In 2016, the Museum of Contemporary Art changes its profile towards a more content-driven agenda, aiming for relevance in present-day society: taking the themes and methods of art as its springboard, The Museum of Contemporary Art addresses social, cultural, and environmental challenges in order to make an impact on our present and future. The museum now works with annual themes that are relevant to a local community as well as to a global agenda. Working thematically connects all activities and projects, e.g. mediation, research, exhibitions, volunteering projects, and education. The theme for 2017 is migration; the theme for 2018 is global economies.

The museum was established in 1991 as the country’s only museum for contemporary art. It grew out of a Fluxus event that took place in Roskilde and has ever since presented and collected “ephemeral” art, among which sound art, performance art, video art, and net art. The museum hosts the bi-annual sound and performance festival ACTS – Festival for Performative Arts.

The museum carries out research in international contemporary art, mediation, and conservation of the latest forms of art, and it holds a collection of Danish and international art. The collection is continuously expanded with works created within the past 25 years. The museum also prioritises museum education for children and young people.

 

 

ENSAD

The École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs is a major public institution of higher education, under the authority of the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. Its purpose is the artistic, scientific, and technical training of creators capable of designing and developing any production in the various disciplines of the decorative arts, as well as the development and carrying out of research in these disciplines. The École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs is developing an ambitious research programme in the form of ENSAD, its research laboratory. Since 2011, the School has been a member of the research and higher-education university formed by "Paris Sciences et Lettres – Quartier Latin," which brings together 20 higher-education and research institutions (including the Collège de France, the ENS, the ESPCI, the Observatoire de Paris, the Institut Curie, and others). The School became a member of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles in 2012. ENSAD, the École des Arts Déco's laboratory for research in art & design, combining research and training, currently consists of 10 research programmes that cover the fields of both design and art, such as the graphic arts, typography, service design, design of objects or space, interactive installations, virtual spaces, new materials, and mobility. The research programmes are directed by professor-researchers, instructors, and professionals with a high level of expertise. For each of these programmes, the School is developing public or private partnerships, with universities, grandes écoles, businesses, or research laboratories.

ENSAD has been part of international research projects aiming at improving the quality of life in conflict situations for various years. In  2016, the School participated in the festival Games for Change Europe Festival (June 9-10) in the framework of Future en Seine to tackle issues of migration. From 2014 to 2016, ENSAD hosted the research laboratory Labodives with PSM (la Plateforme de Service aux Migrants), PEROU (pôle d’exploration des ressources urbaines), CIVIC CITY (international design research network), CAS Civic Design (HEAD university Geneva), and LE CHANNEL in order to find new forms of experimentation by adopting design tools in the framework of conflict situations. Since 2014, ENSAD develops the Symposium “Forging the future” conceived by Anna Bernagozzi, Francesca Cozzolino, Aurelie Mossé and Sophie Krier. In 2015, ENSAD organised the exhibition  “ENSADland”, a resilient design territory conceived by 12 young graduates in Milan.

At “Ensadland”, design must be capable of action in the social world. It must contribute to relationships that are creating new driving forces striving for resilience, focusing on the very structure of processes as well as their elaboration. Designing for resilience means inventing not only new tools and new processes, but also the interactions they produce. Analytical ability, adaptation, audience co-production and flexibility are the keywords.

 

Blindesign

Blindesign is a consultancy for Social Innovation.

Launched in 2007 as a social workshop for eco-design products, they have evolved by growing their capacity to respond to the challenges that they have faced. It is a social enterprise with a targeted approach to impact projects, and they use innovative design as a tool for social transformation.

Really, what they excel at is designing products that promote social inclusion and protect the environment; as consultants, they help create projects that respond to emerging social issues and facilitate sustainable growth.

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Established in 1956 as a Portuguese foundation for the whole of humanity, the Foundation’s original purpose focused on fostering knowledge and raising the quality of life of persons throughout the fields of the arts, charity, science and education. Bequeathed by the last will and testament of Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, the Foundation is of perpetual duration and undertakes its activities structured around its headquarters in Lisbon (Portugal) and its delegations in Paris (France) and London (the United Kingdom).

Nurturing not only the universal values inherent to the human condition, in full respect for diversity and difference, but also a culture of tolerance as well as preserving the environment and the relationship between man and nature, it fosters a spirit of curiosity sensitive to the harmony of nature and the special propensity for the contemplation of beauty that constituted one of the defining features of the founder’s personal character.

Hangar

HANGAR is an Artistic Research Center located in Graça, Lisbon. HANGAR includes a center of exhibitions, artistic residencies, and artistic studies. It is also a center of education, talks, and conversations that unify geographic locations, cultures and identities and stimulate the development of artistic and theoretical practices.

HANGAR also seeks to organize and produce the development of artistic inter-disciplinary projects and visual arts projects that focus on Lisbon as a central backdrop for contemporary culture.

HANGAR is an independent space managed by artists and curators. It is a place for experimentation, research, and reflection artistic practices. This space is a point of convergence of various areas of contemporary artistic processes.

MAAT - Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia

The MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, which opened its doors to the public on 5 October. Presenting itself as a new cultural centre in the city of Lisbon, the MAAT represents an ambition to host national and international exhibitions with contributions by contemporary artists, architects and thinkers.

A space for debate, critical thinking and international dialogue, which offers an intense and diverse programme conceived for all audiences and ages.

The MAAT also represents the EDP group’s intent to help revitalise the riverfront of Belém’s historic district. Designed by the prestigious British architecture firm Amanda Levete Architects – whose curriculum includes distinctions such as the RIBA Stirling Prize -, the project involves approximately 3 thousand square metres of exhibitive space plus 7 thousand square metres of public space. The new building rises on the riverfront with an architectural narrative that is sensitive to the city’s cultural heritage and future, offering, among other features, a pedestrian roof that offers a privileged view of Lisbon and the Tagus, and which immediately became an iconic location.

With this proposal, the EDP Foundation has created a unique space in the city: a campus measuring 38 thousand square metres where the new building, with its cosmopolitan design, coexists with the iconic Tejo Power Station, connected through a landscape project designed by Lebanese architect Vladimir Djurovic.

Plataforma de Apoio aos Refugiados

Having in mind the current situation - the largest refugee crisis since World War II, a situation of enormous complexity, for which there is no simple answer or a solution without risks / adverse effects -, the Plataforma de Apoio aos Refugiados (Platform for Support to Refugees) puts together several portuguese organisations aiming to promote a culture of support and hosting refugees, in Portuguese society as well as the countries of origin and the in transit countries.

The two axis of action of PAR are “Families” and “Frontline”. In “Families”, the focus is on the reception and integration of refugee children and their families in Portugal, in a community context, with the involvement of local institutions such as Local Authorities, Associations, Religious Associations and Schools. The institutions should take on different responsibilities towards a given refugee family. “Frontline” consists of a campaign to collect funds to support Caritas and JRS in Lebanon in their work with refugees and internally displaced persons.

Rua das Gaivotas 6

Rua das Gaivotas 6 follows a project that started 20 years ago and has dodged definitions through continuous changes. Today, the group Teatro Praga, which explores the space, intends to establish it as a place for performances, movement, residencies and readings, a former School, now opened to a neighbourhood and a city. Rua das Gaivotas 6, as imagined by Teatro Praga, is a space where one can devise freedom and spend time looking at oneself not subjected to normalisation. Rua das Gaivotas 6 welcomes performing arts, visual arts, conferences, literature, cinema and workshops.

Or Gallery

The Or Gallery is an artist-run centre committed to exhibiting work by local, national, and international artists whose art practice is of a critical, conceptual and/or interdisciplinary nature. Since its inception in 1983 the gallery has acted as a space for research, proposition making, conceptual experimentation and documentation.

Culture+Conflict

Culture+Conflict is a not-for-profit agency focusing on art produced in, or in response to, conflict and post-conflict situations across the world.

Our overall aims are to increase the involvement of the arts in conflict and post-conflict situations, to build greater understanding of their value, and to foster the exchange of knowledge and perspectives with other sectors also engaged in conflict and post-conflict work: the political and diplomatic community, NGOs, international development agencies, academia, the media, and the many peace-building initiatives worldwide. We believe the arts have a vital role to play, not least in their unique ability to communicate the powerful personal and political issues of conflict.

C+C was founded in 2011 by Michaela Crimmin, Peter Jenkinson OBE and Jemima Montagu

Delfina Foundation

Delfina Foundation is an independent, non-profit foundation dedicated to facilitating artistic exchange and developing creative practice through residencies, partnerships and public programming.

 

Founded in 2007, we promote artistic exchange and experimentation. We create opportunities for emerging and established artists, curators and writers to reflect on what they do, position their practice within relevant global discourse, create career-defining research and commissions, and network with colleagues. We forge international collaborations to build shared platforms to incubate, to present and to discuss common practices and themes.

In January 2014, Delfina Foundation expanded into an adjacent building at 31 Catherine Place in central London, becoming London's largest provider of international residencies.

Delfina Foundation is a non-political and non-grant-making foundation. 

The Showroom

The Showroom commissions and produces art and discourse, providing a collaborative programme that challenges what art can be and do for a wide range of audiences, including art professionals and the local community. The gallery programme focuses on collaborative and process-driven approaches to production be that art work, exhibitions, events, discussions, publications, knowledge and relationships. 

Through major commissions and smaller projects The Showroom works with artists and other practitioners who have not previously had significant exposure in London, often introducing international artists to London, and working in partnership with other individuals and organisations. Working closely with the local community through an aspect of the programme called Communal Knowledge, the gallery has developed strong, long-term relationships with local groups and individuals who are brought together to work in partnership with artists on specific projects and commissions which feed into the programme as a whole.

Tate

Tate houses, in a network of four art museums, the UK’s national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. The overall mission is to increase everyone's enjoyment and understanding of art, and currently records over 8 million visits a year across its four sites. The gallery was founded in 1897, and now consists of a network of four museums: Tate Britain, which displays the collection of British art from 1500 to the present day, as well as temporary exhibitions and events; Tate Modern which houses the Tate's collection of British and international modern and contemporary art from 1900 to the present day; Tate Liverpool, and Tate St Ives in Cornwall. One of the Tate's most publicised art events is the awarding of the annual Turner Prize. 

ArtMission

ArtMission is a self-governed, non-profit and non-governmental organisation established in 2009 with a view of bringing together the efforts of arts and culture organisations, individual professionals, artists, institutions and business for promoting contemporary art and culture and enhancing their role in local social and economic development of the Kaliningrad region.   

Goethe-Institut Litauen

The Goethe-Institut is the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany with a global reach.

The institute promotes knowledge of the German language abroad and foster international cultural cooperation. It conveys a comprehensive image of Germany by providing information about cultural, social and political life in our nation. The cultural and educational programmes encourage intercultural dialogue and enable cultural involvement. They strengthen the development of structures in civil society and foster worldwide mobility.

Klaipėda University

Klaipėda University – is a multidisciplinary national and Baltic Sea Region research and studies leader, promoter of cultural heritage, and lifelong learning centre integrated in international academic networks. 

There are 120 three-cycle study programs providing the student with research-based modern knowledge and technological based on higher university education level and higher education qualification, develops fully educated, responsible, creative and entrepreneurial personality.

A base created for on-going fundamental, applied research and experimental development activities in physical, biomedical, technology, social sciences and humanities to carry out has more than 60 laboratories, a botanical garden, research vessel Mintis and scientific-research and training schooner Brabander. Klaipėda University implements Integrated Science, Studies and Business Center – Marine Valley – program for Lithuanian maritime sector development. The University aims to be the leader in marine science and technology.

Art is an integral part of the scientific activities of the university. Klaipėda University, cultural and artistic development priorities are focused on the Klaipėda Region and Lithuania Minor culture storage: Lithuania Minor historical, linguistic, confessional, ethnic and musical heritage, Lithuania Minor and Klaipėda Region musical culture history and study of the present events, comparative studies of music in the Baltic Region.

MASS Alexandria

MASS Alexandria, founded in 2010 by the Alexandria artist Wael Shawky, is located in the east-Alexandrian neighbourhood of Miami. It is a 440-sqm space housed in the basement of a residential building to provide an opportunity for independent study and learning for artists in Egypt. The basement is a shared studio, meeting, screening and performance space. Through its program, MASS Alexandria aims to complement existing art education schemes, with a focus on the conceptual aspects of artistic production. Monthly workshops, seminars and lectures are led by artists, art educators and curators. Through the exploration of contemporary artistic practices, the program also encourages students to work closely with cultural, artistic and scientific ideas in the fields of art history and theory and inter-disciplinary studies.

Thomas Mann Cultural Centre

The summer house, where Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955) lived during three summers and wrote parts of his Joseph-novels, was built with the money from the Nobel prize he received in 1929 and survived the war in Lithuanian Nida on the Courish Spit. 

Since May 1995 two institutions are located in the restored Thomas Mann House: the Thomas Mann Museum, financed by the State of Lithuania, and the Thomas Mann Cultural Centre, headed by an international council and funded by various sponsors. The Museum's permanent exposition, opened in 1967, contains a collection of photos, books, and copies of documents reflecting life and works of Thomas Mann, esp. his summers in Nida and his relationship with Lithuania. No authentic items have remained in the Museum. The Centre in Nida organizes educational events for young scientists from Lithuania and abroad, as well as international seminars and scientific conferences, a Thomas Mann festival and music recitals, it is supported not only by its founders (the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture, the University of Klaipeda, the Municipal Administration of Neringa), but also by institutions like Academia Baltica (Lübeck), the cultural association "Borussia" (Olsztyn), Goethe-Institut in Vilnius, Danish Cultural Institute, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Lithuania, Soros Foundation; Robert-Bosch-Foundation, Stuttgart, Foundation "Lithuanian Books from Lithuania", and others. 

La fabrique Nomade

Founded in January 2016, the association works to promote the professional integration of migrant and refugee artisans in France. Passionate women and men, with know-how acquired in their country of origin, encounter in France many obstacles to their professional integration as a craftsman. Socio-linguistic barriers, the lack of networks, the non-recognition of their qualifications and their experiences, the lack of knowledge of the market make it difficult to pursue their professions. 

Valuing the skills that come into our territory, enrich our society and support its development by considering each person in what it is and what it can do. La fabrique Nomade defends a new model of integration, which takes into account the person, his career, by identifying the acquired skills and by studying the possibilities of adaptation and transfer in the French economic and cultural context.

The association allows artisans to return to their job, find their rightful place in society and give a new meaning to their life after exile.

Parti Poétique

Parti Poétique brings together artists, graphic designers and beekeepers around the work of Olivier Darné, artist-beekeeper. Through its project, La Banque du Miel, it aims to interpret the public space, the city and the environment by using the bee as a media and witness. Since 2009, Parti Poétique has been carrying out actions and artistic installations in the public space, and spreading apiaries-banks throughout Europe, symbolizing the ecological, economic and social crisis. Since 2011, Parti Poétique has opened a resource center in Saint-Denis, called Zone Sensible, in touch with the neighborhood, the city, the surrounding area. Laboratory of open-air artistic and environmental experiments, Zone Sensible becomes the place of convergence, controversy, artistic, cultural and scientific permanence of the project led by the collective. It allows to welcome public and school, but also to develop specific invitations to artists.