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LANDSCAPE CHOREOGRAPHY From Wasted Land To Shared Space
Start date: Jul 1, 2012,

LANDSCAPE CHOREOGRAPHY supports collective practices of urban gardening and encourages an innovative European culture of common spaces through an interdisciplinary approach that integrate public art, landscape architecture, performing art, and socio-anthropological analysis.The project involves 3 cities of 3 European countries: Taranto (Italy), Cottbus (Germany) and Cluj (Romania) and lasts 24 months. The project’s objectives are:• To engage different users through artistic workshops and comparative analysis in the anthropological and urban landscape field• To develop new interdisciplinary creative languages• To initiate public events, trans-national circulation of works and an International Festival Its foreseen outputs are:• Creation of new urban gardens• Production of artistic performances and their circulation• Comparative analysis in the anthropological and urban landscape fieldThe project activities are divided into 5 phases that metaphorically describe the agriculture cycle: to dig up, to seed, to maintain, to crop, to continue. The aim is to engage the citizen in the creation of new urban garden through workshops of participative construction, and to stage this process through art performances: the citizen is the “creator” of the performance, the art will only give an expressive form to this actions. The project’s title emphasizes the value of this choreographic process: the bodies will enter into a mutual physical relationship in order to cooperate at the creation of new urban landscapes. Some representative of the partners involved will move to participate at the workshops in the other countries spreading the outputs. The practice of spontaneous and creative use of abandoned public spaces can inaugurate a virtuous cycle to increase new forms of social and cultural cohabitation at a European level. These peculiar social dynamics will be disseminated as examples of “best practices” and this would also constitute the Project European Added Value
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