Co-vision fosters contemporary storytelling about the endangered local natural heritage.

CO-VISION – Mapping the Natural Heritage is a 3-years large-scale cooperation project which intends to co-create and co-produce a reproducible model for tackling environmental challenges and an EU Artistic Digital Archive with the objective of stimulating a deep awareness of the climate crisis, fostering sustainable behaviors and fair methodologies for the cultural creation in large-scale events, and preserving the memory of part of the natural heritage at risk.

Co-vision fosters contemporary storytelling about the endangered local natural heritage. Art installations, debates and digital content will highlight the impact of climate change on European fauna and flora, promoting discussions and showcasing original content.

The project is promoted by a consortium of 12 professional cultural players in 11 countries spreading in all Europe and will involve citizens, international artists (with a specific engagement of the Ukrainian community), local stakeholders through a cultural participatory strategy and thanks to bottom-up mechanisms and an empirical methodology for the storytelling of the natural heritage.

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Tiina Savallampi
Project Manager & Designer
Master of Hospitality Management & Bachelor of Design
tiina.savallampi(a)xamk.fi

Anu Vainio
RDI Specialist & Service Designer
anu.vainio(a)xamk.fi

greening guidelines

At Co-vision project, Xamk focuses on sustainability issues and creates Greening Guidelines to events and festivals. Our development approach is design-based, including for example co-creation activities, interviews, benchmarking best practises, observing festivals and prototyping.  Planetary well-being and UN global sustainability goals provide principles and framework for our actions.

This is our aim:

Understand (2024)
– collecting insight from events and festivals, having dialogues and workshops with our Artistic partners to understand the operational environment

Ideate (2024)
– making first, early-stage draft of Greening Guidelines based on findings from the understand phase, including expertise from sustainability and regenerative thinking

Prototype (2024-2025)
– creating a prototype of Greening Guidelines and take it into action to be tested, collecting feedback

Iterate (2025)
– developing Greening Guidelines further based on feedback from prototype phase

Finalize (2026)
– finalizing Greening Guidelines to be easy-to-use and adopted to event and festival development

 

 

project partners

Facts

CO-VISION - Mapping the Natural Heritage

1 January 2024 – 31 December 2026

Project partners

Lead partner: VIDEOCITTA S.R.L. (Italy)

Partners: KIKK (Belgium), MULTITRAB PRODUCTIONS ATHENS DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL (Greece), SIGNAL Productions (Czech Republic), LAB 852 (Croatia), TRANSYLVANIA TRUST FOUNDATION (Romania), RENCONTRES AUDIOVISUELLES (France), MAPA DAS IDEIAS (Portugal), IED ISTITUTO EUROPEO DI DESIGN (Italy), Plan 9 Cultural (Spain), XAMK (Finland), NTNU (Norway)

Xamk Research Units: Creative Industries

Budget

Total budget: € 3 330 254

XAMK part of the total budget: € 116 405

Financiers and main source of funding: Creative Europe