ENCC – ACMC panel

Topic of the ENCC special will tackle transgressive skills & participatory models in cultural heritage management. We will be especially highlighting strategies on empowering youth and newcomers to cultural management, diving into the findings of ESACH network on the type of skills needed to be developed to inherit the heritage sector by the young professionals. The discussions will focus as well on existing tools and solutions that allow to bridge people with technologies. That will be offered by the HeritACT project (co-funded by the Horizon Europe programme), which focuses on the novelty of digital tools (co-developed by THINGS.is, Milan), supporting heritage preservation, civic participation in cultural heritage transformations, especially towards the New European Bauhaus principles and on the heritage as a vector for Europe’s Triple Transformation (as according to the European Heritage Hub). We will present the HeritACT project tools, which aim to allow the active participation of citizens in the reactivation of the local cultural tangible and intangible heritage.

We will be speaking about the cultural heritage which provokes trespassing borders and enables us to develop transgressive skills of multisensory and inclusive experiencing of art. Through methods such as tiflography, audio description, tactile elements and aroma, the project is called “Invisible Painting. Art Discussion Series”!, winner of the 2024 UpGrants competition of ENCC, invites participants to the discussion without engaging the sense of sight, using touch, smell, taste and sound. Project originates from WOAK in Toruń (Poland), and the centre is balancing the regional perspectives of empowering young professionals in community arts and civic participation. Finally, through the activities conducted by the Imagine Heritage non-profit, Athens, we will speak about the heritage and memory of trauma within societies, and how the transgressive and inclusive role of arts can heal the wounds of losses. This organization, advocating for the new heritage experience (especially enabled by the digital grounds), views heritage as a dynamic ecosystem and prioritizes quality of life, while by combining culture and technology, its volunteers want to create educational tools to partner with communities, raise awareness, educate, and support cultural projects to unite people for a better world. 

With the panelists, we will strongly focus on the involvement of the youth perspectives, to reinforce the intergenerational dialogue among the cultural professionals. Join us in Vienna!