The Cooperative Laboratory for Creative and Ecological Practices is an informal training program for adults, artists, and art professionals. It facilitates the acquisition of ecological knowledge applicable to artistic workshops, aimed at children and adults, with a particular focus on “priority” audiences. Our goal is to engage specific audiences on the social, economic, cultural, or geographical periphery and encourage our more privileged participants to deepen their thinking and commitment to ecological practices.
LABECO is an Erasmus+ project funded by the European Union and led by the Marseille-based DDA Contemporary Art, in collaboration with the Lisbon-based O Gabinete de Madame Thao.
objectives
Our objective is to increase the skills of participants specializing in the fields of art and culture, by learning sustainable and inclusive proven practices. The intention is to pass on knowledge through workshops aimed at our ‘priority’ target audiences. The study of new materials and new fields of eco-responsible artistic expression linked to the urban, natural and digital environment will give us back the power to act.
implementation
LABECO is made up of 4 activities, including shared management and coordination, 2 work modules for exchanging best practices and learning from experience, and an activity for producing deliverables, disseminating them and promoting the project as a whole, with the aim of reaching a “priority” audience far removed from art and ecology, as well as a wider public.
results
We are aiming for positive qualitative and quantitative impacts thanks to LABECO, based on the quality content we propose on the issue of transmission and ecological and inclusive artistic practices. By proposing tools that can be reused and exploited by as many people as possible, we’ll be able to disseminate the results widely. This will enable us to move on to a larger scale.
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