DIALOG CITY – A holistic approach towards a digital cultural infrastructure in European cities – 2022-2025
DIALOG CITY, which is in progress, aims at contributing to increased access to culture through a dialogical approach by developing new practices on how to connect digital innovation directly to citizens’ physical participation. Digital transformation is more of a mindset than a purely technical innovation. Hence the overall goal of this project proposal is to create a socially inclusive, environmentally friendly, and economically sustainable urban digital environment.
Impact
- Data Analysis Platform for citizens’ and artists’ digital transformation needs.
- Citizen Archive Platform for the Cultural Heritage Sector.
- FUTURES LITERACY design thinking toolkit for artists and cultural organizations.
- FUTURES LITERACY workshops in 5 countries.
- Three Hybrid Festivals (Mondoví/ IT, from 20-22 July 2023, in Graz/ AT from 06-08 June 2024 and Aschaffenburg/ DE, from 26 June to 5 July 2025, Montpellier/ FR from 12 to 14 June 2025) as laboratories for transformation.
- An ART FOR PUBLIC residency programme in each of the Festivals.
Funding programme: € 90.084 Creative Europe Programme of the EU with 70% funding.
Website: https://dialogcity.eu/
Download:
The Report of Interviews with Citizens and Stakeholders
The Report of Interviews with Artists
The List of Skills and Competencies for the Aristic Fields Report
The 5 Training Modules for Artists on Futures Literacy
Watch the Video of the 18 Capacity Building Workshops here
The Methodology Testing Report and watch the video recording of the UN World Cities Day event where it was presented HERE – Passcode: ya&xf8=*
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FUTURE LITERACY workshops (in Greek)
Participatory Imagination for a Changing World | Dialog City x CulturePolis x 11 Modern Muses x Yoryos Styl
🔮 Experiential Future Literacy Workshops in Patras & Thessaloniki
Participatory Imagination for a Changing World
How can we rethink the present by imagining alternative futures?
How can imagination be transformed into a tool for social and cultural resilience?
CulturePolis in collaboration with 11 modern muses (Alexandra Tiligadi) and Insider Spaceman (George Styl) is organizing two series of separate experiential workshops with the aim of empowering citizens, artists, educators, business executives and other professionals to use the future as a tool for understanding, creating and addressing crises.
The concept of Futures Literacy, as developed and recognized by UNESCO, concerns the ability to imagine multiple, alternative futures and to utilize them in order to see the world with new eyes.
September 10-17, 2025
Information about the workshops in Patras and online HERE.
September 29-30, 2025
Information about the workshops in Thessaloniki HERE.
⚠️ In each city, the workshops consist of consecutive modules. It is recommended to attend all of them for the full experience.
Through experiential activities, creative tools and an interactive process, the workshops cultivate collective imagination, creative thinking and the ability to imagine – and build – the future landscapes that we deserve.