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ARTECITYA by GOETHE-INSTITUT Thess Intro
Envisioning the City of Tomorrow
[2014-2019] [EU programme]

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About ARTECITYA

Artecitya is a Europe-wide project bringing together artists, architects, town planners and citizens to re-create the cities we want to live in. The priority is to stimulate a vigorously innovative approach to the concept of urban life taking into account the sociological evolution and people's needs. 
During the preliminary four-year period, numerous architects and artists, working hand in hand with town and townscape planners, are to build up collaborative processes to create effective results in public spaces. They will further study innovative financing measures and promote means for raising awareness, informing and even training the public to take part in the transformation and improvement of their own districts and neighbourhoods.
Artecitya groups 8 co-organizers from around Europe devoted to planning and developing towns and cities particularly regarding their architectural and artistic content. Working side by side for several years on a rigorous programme of activity, the partners have obtained practical experience and developed methods of intervening in urban development directly involving artists, architects, town planners and the local populations.

About ARTECITYA by
​Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki

Bringing together the talent of the artist, the creativity of the entrepreneur and the vision of the investor.
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Run by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, in collaboration with ArtBOX | Creative Arts Management, Artecitya in Thessaloniki suggests the establishment of an Artistic Creative Agency, based on the formation of an active network between local, national and international cultural actors, who will propose specific projects aiming at reinventing the city's image and its perception for its inhabitants, visitors and people world-wide. The Agency will be responsible for building bridges between the artists / creators who participate in the residencies and the local agents and circumstances - community, business, art and culture institutions, local authorities etc. Participating creators will propose solutions and build prototypes. The Agency will work to bring these into existence through fundraising, discussion with local authorities etc.
Results:
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Four years after its successful run, the programme “Artecitya. Envisioning the City of Tomorrow” (2014-2018) by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki in collaboration with ArtBOX Creative Arts Management with the support of the Creative Europe programme of the European Union comes to an end.
  • 5.000 audience members 
  • 350 artists and creatives - 300 of which young and emerging 
  • 6 artists & creatives residencies (Swaantje Güntzel & Jan Philip Scheibe, Eric Ellingsen, Lynn Peemoeller, Christof Mayer, Evi Karathanasopoulou, Thomas Koch)
  • 7 workshops for young creatives (“Innovation Gym” by Achilleas Kentonis; “The Unlearning Series” by Eleni Garoufalia and Rania Emmanouilidou; preparatory workshop and media lab workshop for the conference “Work As Invention. Art for Social Change”; “Perceiving Academy” with Eric Ellingsen; “Stories with Sound and Radio Documentary” with Evi Karathanasopoulou; “Artistic Approaches to Immersive Media” with Thomas Koch; “Spatial Practices” with Christof Mayer”).
  • 2 groups of young creative entrepreneurs (LABs), which have been established as the result of Artecitya activities and support offered in enhancing skills and know-how, providing financial resources, and a market platform (Media Lab, Coalesce)
  • 3 socially engaged & public art projects (“Goethe’s Dream” by Giorgos Gyparakis, Alexandros Psychoulis and Theodoros Zafeiropoulos, “Explosion of Speech” by Mats Bigert & Lars Bergström, “Symphony of Resonances” by Bruce Odland & Sam Auinger)
  • 10 dissemination and publicity events (Artecitya Launch; Artecitya Agency Launch; “Explosion of Speech” in Venice; “Unlearning” exhibition; “Plastisphere” exhibition by Güntzel & Scheibe; “Perceiving Academy" and “You are Food" closing festival; "Goethe’s Dream” public presentation;  “Homeland” presentation to school teachers; “Symphony of Resonances”; “Points of View” opening)   
  • 20 workshops for schools (in the context of “Homeland” project by Theodoros Zafeiropoulos)
  • 1 major international conference: The conference took place at the Goethe Institut Thessaloniki (GR) from the 31st of March to the 1st of April 2017. The event was conceived and organized by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, in collaboration with ArtBOX Creative Arts Management and in partnership with the Municipality of Thessaloniki - LABattoir Project and the Hyperwerk Institute for Postindustrial Design - Academy of Art and Design FHNW. The conference was live streamed to 12 institutions around the world
  • 1 sustainability project: The project LABattoir is an initiative of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, based on a concept by ArtBOX non-profit organisation. LABattoir is realized at the recently refurbished building of the Old Municipal Slaughterhouse, implemented through a founding grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).

Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Poland, Slovenia
2014-2019

Artecitya GR organised by:
Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki

Artistic direction & Co-Coordination:
ArtBOX

Partners:
Apollonia european art exchanges (Strasbourg) (leader)
ARTos Foundation (Nicosia)
Bellastock (Paris)
CCEA (Prague)
KUNSTrePUBLIK (Berlin)
Laznia (Gdansk)
MOTA (Ljubljana)
HELEXPO (Thessaloniki)
Goethe-Institut (Thessaloniki)

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ARTECITYA

ARTECITYA EVENTS

2015 - 2018

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ARTECITYA

RESIDENCY

INTRO
2016 - 2018


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You Are Food

by Lynn Peemoeller
June-July 2016


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PLASTISPHERE

by Guntzel & Scheibe
March-May 2016


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UNLEARNING EXHIBITION

20/5-1/7/ 2016


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Innovation Gym

2-4 Dec 2015


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Goethe's Dream

INTRO
2015-2016

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Goethe's Dream

by Psychoulis
2015

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Goethe's Dream

by Zafiropoulos
2015-2016

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Goethe's Dream

by Gyparakis
2015

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UNLEARNING PROJECT

by E.Garoufalia
2015

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EXPLOSION OF SPEECH

by Bigert & Bergstrom
Thessaloniki 2015

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EXPLOSION OF SPEECH

by Bigert & Bergstrom
Venice 2015

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1st PUBLIC PRESENTATION

Thessaloniki
2015

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ARTECITYA

KICK-OFF MEETING

Thessaloniki
2015

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The project is funded with support from the European Commission. 
This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot 
be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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