Institution Tag: Socioculture
Kulturreferat der Landes
hauptstadt
München
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The Project
“Übermorgen” in the Decentralized City?! Culture in Urban Spaces
How can we shape a vibrant and future-ready neighborhood culture in decentralized urban areas?
The Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich aims to create a compelling vision for the future –navigating the tensions of an impending generational shift and today’s societal challenges. At the heart of the initiative is the question: What changes are necessary and possible to preserve and further develop the city’s network of cultural centers in all their richness and diversity? By bringing together perspectives from academia, organizational development, foundations, and the cultural sector, the goal is to develop a sustainable operational model for cultural centers. At the same time, the project seeks to strengthen national and European networks and open up new paths for collaboration.
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Dagmar Koblinger
Kultur
zentrum
dasHaus
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The Project
The Most Beautiful Ugliest City in the World
How can municipal cultural institutions become drivers of social renewal in times of multiple crises? The cultural center dasHaus in Ludwigshafen sees both the opportunity – and the necessity – to fundamentally rethink its structures right now. The aim is closer, cross-departmental collaboration and a more efficient use of human, material, and intellectual resources. At the same time, the connection to the urban community is to be strengthened through innovative participation formats that highlight Ludwigshafen’s unique character – also as a model for the region. New partnerships with businesses and the sciences will play a central role: not as sponsorships, but as exchanges on equal footing. The core question is: What can we learn from each other in order to keep moving forward together?
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Stefanie Kleinsorge
Bahnhof
Langen
dreer e. V.
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The Project
All Inclusive – Bahnhof Langendreer
The socio-cultural centre Bahnhof Langendreer e. V. aims to make inclusion not the exception, but an integral part of its cultural practice. Around 13 million people in Germany live with visible or invisible disabilities – and many of them remain underrepresented or excluded within the cultural sector. The task, therefore, is to identify specific needs and, together with experts with lived experience, develop robust, long-term structures for accessibility and participation. Rather than relying on short-term project funding, the programme provides an opportunity to think big and sustainably: to create inclusive opportunities that enable participation, open up the cultural venue to all, and establish a new normal in the long run – in thinking, in attitude, and in action.
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KULTUR
BÄCKEREI
e. V.
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The Project
Spaces of Possibility: Socio-Cultural Centre Mainz
With KULTURBÄCKEREI, a new centre for socio-cultural engagement is taking shape in Mainz – the first of its kind in the city. The association operates independently in its thematic focus, driven by strong social commitment. Here, culture is not seen as a luxury, but as a societal necessity: a tool for active involvement, enabling participation, and strengthening democratic processes.
The guiding question is: what can a place achieve that takes “Cultural Citizenship” seriously – that is, not only facilitating cultural participation, but also making power structures visible and challenging them? KULTURBÄCKEREI aims to explore exactly this, creating a conceptual and structural foundation for a long-term, forward-looking model of cultural participation.
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Tanz
Station –
Barmer
Bahnhof
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The Project
Dare to Trust / Hosts of the Future – or the Art of Hospitality
Dance is part of Wuppertal’s identity – but how can the art form truly be made accessible to all citizens? Tanz Station – Barmer Bahnhof seeks to rethink what a cultural institution can be: open, multi-perspectival, and collectively supported. Together with representatives from the city administration, municipal cultural venues, and the independent scene, Tanz Station aims to develop new forms of participation and collaboration, inspired by diverse cultures of hospitality. In this process, the experiences of cultural actors are shared with Wuppertal’s citizens, and cultural institutions are envisioned as spaces that welcome and connect.
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Kultur
zentrum
Schlacht
hof
Wiesbaden
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The Project
From Slaughterhouse to KULTurCAMPus
With the idea of the KULTurCAMPus, the Schlachthof Wiesbaden Cultural Centre is breaking new ground in socio-cultural collaboration. For 30 years, four key cultural venues have shaped the “Kulturpark Wiesbaden”: Schlachthof, Kreativfabrik, Skatehalle and Kontext. Yet their future is uncertain – at the very least, not secured – and clear long-term perspectives are needed. The programme provides the space to develop a sustainable framework for new, cooperative and future-oriented collaboration among the cultural organisations, without taking away their autonomy. The goal is to safeguard the Kulturpark as a vibrant site of urban culture in the long term. Its significance as a driving force of a diverse socio-cultural city culture can only be maintained – or strengthened – if the individual institutions themselves remain strong. To this end, the “role of culture in a city” must be discussed in dialogue with local policymakers.
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Theater
Bonn
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The Project
share.connect.grow.bonn
How can cultural transformation succeed if institutions do not remain isolated, but instead shape the future together? In Bonn, major and smaller cultural institutions, the independent scene, administration, and politics have joined forces to rethink culture. Faced with limited resources and profound changes – in staffing, structures, and the climate – the programme seeks to identify the needs of all stakeholders, develop a systematic and strategic concept for resource-sharing, and define overarching goals. The upcoming theatre renovation serves as a starting point for creating a sustainable cultural ecosystem: open to innovation, collaborative in practice, and driven by the idea of jointly developing offerings that reflect the needs of the city’s diverse communities.
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Rose Bartmer
Kultur
Quartier
Erfurt
e. V.
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The Project
The KulturQuartier of TOMORROW – Shaping the Future Together! Using Resources, Creating Spaces, Strengthening Networks
Located in the heart of Erfurt’s city centre, the KulturQuartier Schauspielhaus Erfurt is a civic-led, open space for cultural encounter and collaborative creation. Supported by KulturQuartier Erfurt e. V., together with the cooperative Genossenschaft KulturQuartier Schauspielhaus eG and three partner organisations – Tanztheater Erfurt e. V., Radio F.R.E.I., and KINOKLUB Erfurt e. V. – the initiative focuses on central questions: How can cultural participation help to revive inner-city cultural spaces? How can organisational structures be made more democratic and offerings more accessible? The aim is, among other things, to foster a culture of joint action through low-threshold participation and cooperation formats.
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Kulturamt
der Stadt
Kassel
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The Project
COUNCIL of ÜBERMORGEN
The Kassel project “COUNCIL of ÜBERMORGEN” aims to establish a diverse advisory body. Within this council, young people, cultural practitioners, and facilitators collaboratively develop forward-looking ideas for the city’s two cultural venues, Dock 4 and Palais Bellevue. Through three public, artistic interventions – known as “ZEITreisen” – the entire city community is invited to join actors from the independent scene and cultural policymakers in imagining unusual future scenarios and testing radical visions for the cultural institutions of tomorrow. At the heart of the project is the question of how municipal cultural centres can provide future generations with active participation, artistic engagement, and the opportunity to shape their own cultural futures – considering a transforming urban society and with a focus on sustainable structures for the years ahead.