Imagine a former industrial site now abandoned, that local residents want to convert into a community school! Imagine a park that is used on a daily basis by local young people, local organic farmers and by a collective of elderly people. Imagine that these residents could participate in taking decisions about the future of the area! Imagine a neighborhood once derelict and now upcoming, at risk of aggressive gentrification but with the presence of a strong grassroots... Read more

Last 3rd and 4th of July, in Barcelona, participants of the European project CultureLabs gathered in an intense and productive two day workshop at the huge ex-industrial-now-cultural “creation factory” Fabra i Coats. The two-day session helped CultureLabs to be shaped as an increasingly more coherent project, in which actors share a common language and know each other’s understandings and goals for this three years journey. Platoniq, with its in-house expertise in co-creation and agile design... Read more

Conectar las historias de Colombia a través de la co-creación y del diálogo analógico-digital. “Realizar procesos de recuperación de memoria con la comunidad se empieza con una sola tarea: Escuchando a la gente. No hay que ser historiadores. Sólo hay que tener una cualidad y es saber escuchar y proponer un tema. La gente va llegando. No hay que ponerlo en términos raros”. Hernando Alberto Gómez, Bibliotecario de la Biblioteca Pública Operación P.A.P.A (Quimbaya, Quindío) El pasado 4... Read more

From Asta Nielsen to Zoroaster, there are lots of famous faces from history in Europeana. Old, young, familiar or sometimes even forgotten. But who inspires you, and why? We want you to tell us, from today, in any language you like, who your cultural hero or heroine in Europeana is and why you picked them using ‘I am @Europeanaeu’ and the hashtag #AllezCulture! We hope this initiative will enhance people’s awareness of Europeana and increase the interest of funders, thereby contributing to our sustainability. When you’ve picked your heroine or hero, you could illustrate it with... Read more

¿Cómo ayudar a geolocalizar y enriquecer fácilmente sonidos de aves, aviones y sonidos urbanos y luego compartirlos a través de redes sociales? Si te suena interesante, sigue leyendo sobre cómo se está desarrollando una aplicación así, y cómo participar con ideas similares en la segunda ronda de desafíos creativos de Europeana Creative. Prototipo en desarrollo Como otro proyecto piloto de eCreative, estamos desarrollando un prototipo que utilizando la cartografía y herramientas de línea de tiempo de Historypin... Read more