SMOTIES. Human Cities – Creative works with small and remote places
Keywords: Participatory Design, Creative Community, Remote Places
Research unit: Davide Fassi, Valentina Auricchio, Laura Galluzzo, Annalinda De Rosa, Paola Russo, Vanessa Monna, Ambra Borin
Politecnico di Milano, Department of Design, Polimi Desis Lab
E-mail (referent): davide.fassi@polimi.it
SMOTIES – Creative works with small and remote places is a four- year co-funded project by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. It belongs to the Human Cities network involving, since 2006, design and architecture universities, centres and consultancies. Spanning all Europe, it acts as a platform of interdisciplinary exchange, examining the livability of public spaces by using participatory design as an approach to supply systems of process and innovation. SMOTIES, applies Human Cities approach to 10 small European places which are depopulated, relationally remote and depositories of a material and immaterial culture that risks being undervalued, not consolidated, not handed down, and hence lost. These places benefit by the design of cultural and creative innovations within public spaces and in collaboration with local stakeholders thanks to the partners, defined as “nodes of creativity” and including public institutions, design centres, creative agencies, national associations, research centres, located in 10 European cities. They work with the small and remote places as interlocutors, activators, and supporters of creative works to be anchored in public spaces through a shared methodology that will guarantee a process of engaging local communities for audience development, transnational mobility of creative professionals, masterclasses and training for capacity building purposes and an evaluation of the impact to generate a long-term legacy in the contexts.
| Funding: Creative Europe Programme of The European Union |
| Implementation: Year: 2020-ongoing Month: October |