Dreaming at the Threshold

 
SECURING INTERNAL SUSTAINABILITY: actions for a new economic model. Refining and defining business model (diversification, gift economy practices, collaborations, network for policy making, grants)
 
LEVELS OF LOCAL PARTICIPATION DESIGNED IN THE CULTURAL ACTIVITIES PLANNED: botton-up logics, community commissioning of artwork fisical output (cooperative instalation in landscape); workshops, building and increasing target groups in coordination with other organisations, comunity bilding, random and semi-controlled audiences (culture without events)
 
REGENERATIVE CULTURES
Dreaming at the thresold; Hack the ritual; Imaginario de lo Posible; Almenara festival; Prefigurative politics
 
GOVERNANCE
Siociocracy, more-than-human world
 
Special attention
Artistic practices and «through arts» methodologies: sovereignty, diversity and innovation of rural culture; art+education logics.
Culture of care: edge vs threshold; kincentric lidership; sociocracy; Queer ecologies; mutualism

BeTime SCA | Vejer de la Frontera, Spain. Located in rural Andalusia, BeTime offers a space focused on slowness, reflection and place-based learning. It supports artistic projects through residencies, land-based practices and community participation, promoting more sustainable approaches that take into account the world beyond the human. La Friche La Belle de Mai | Marseille, France. A former tobacco factory transformed into a cultural centre, La Friche combines artistic creation with citizen participation. It addresses ecological challenges and collective social transformation. Jazz ao Centro Clube (JACC) | Coimbra, Portugal, develops community art projects focused on improvisation, jazz and collective experimentation. Rooted in the local culture of Coimbra, it fosters connections between music, territory and democratic innovation. KÖME – Assc of Cultural Heritage Managers | Budapest, Hungary. KÖME operates at the intersection of cultural heritage and innovation, using cultural memory as a driver of sustainable development. The association collaborates with museums and public spaces to position cultural institutions as key players in ecological and social transition. ZK/U – Centre for Art and Urbanistics | Berlin, Germany, is a hybrid institution that builds bridges between art and urban development. It supports artist residencies, research and grassroots initiatives, transforming artistic practices into practical urban solutions and promoting creative approaches to city management.

Be.Time + Almenara

backgrounds

Be.Time SCA

Since 2016, Be.Time SCA has been supporting Andalusian artist and to depelop artistic research and production (main theater, performance, dance,exhibitions and publications), aswell as other non-formal education initiatives.

Since 2021, a significant part of Be.Time SCA’s cultural activity has undergone a process of review, and the cooperative’s main mission has been renewed. Under the umbrella of PÁRPADO — ‘dreaming on the threshold’ — the idea of regenerating nature and imaginaries arises in the very place where the eye no longer sees.

At EMCCINNO, we advocate an eco-social vision of culture and art, which is why we plan creative, analytical, emotional and contact-based actions between people and other beings and non-beings, with special attention to local memory and what remains in them about ‘the communal’ as an economic and cultural system.

The cooperative works to share and expand knowledge about locally developed eco-cultural regeneration, joining forces with the Almenara Association.

Finca Catalina

Almenara Asoc

FINCA CATALINAAsoc ALMENARA, acts as the nerve centre of this network, experimenting with sociocracy as a model of governance within its resident community and encouraging the emergence of distributed and ephemeral communities.

The experiments carried out here have great potential to inform the imagination, design and construction of a regenerative future.

Based on this experience, we have joined a European consortium together with other cultural organisations, independent research groups and academic institutions as part of the EMCCINNO project: Empowering creative industries to drive systemic innovation for a sustainable climate transition (2025-2028).

Our proposal focuses on the development of a series of contexts and resources in the local area (Vejer and its surroundings). We support processes of rural knowledge creation and the revitalisation of collective memory. Guided by the principles of permaculture, our framework is structured around three central themes: the culture of trees, water and the commons, without being limited to any specific discipline or driven by predefined artistic outcomes.

Funded by the European Union

Funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101178706. The project is part of Cluster 2 “Culture, creativity and inclusive society”, call HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01-02 “Cultural and creative industries for a sustainable climate transition” of the 2023-2024 Work Programme. CORDIS project page:

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101178706

Consortium

Local Colaborators

LINKTREE

EMCCINNO – Bluskay