4Cs From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity & Culture

4Cs | What 4Cs aims to explore how culture and creativity can constitute powerful resources to promote a critical reflection about emerging forms of conflict, as well as to envision creative ways to deal with and defuse conflictual phenomena affecting today’s Europe through activities that promote the development of audiences and stimulate capacity building within training and education.

4Cs | Why (now) After decades of institutional efforts to foster European identity, Europe is becoming a space of uncertainty and unrest. In face of current challenges, such as of living together in an intercultural and transnational present, Europe cannot exist without recognising the presence of others. Conviviality is then of utmost importance in promoting understanding and interaction.

4Cs | How Conflict, in this project, will be addressed with its impacting effects in contemporary society in three interrelated ways – the political sphere, social relations and human behaviour. The combination of theory and practice in training and education activities will allow the development and transference of skills in a fruitful dialogue between researchers and practitioners while actively developing audiences and a series of good creative practices.

  4Cs | Who Partners Tensta Konsthall (SE); SAVVY (DE); Royal College of Art (UK); Fundació Antoni Tàpies (ES); Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts (LT); Museet for Samtidskunst (DK); ENSAD (FR). Project leader The Lisbon Consortium (Faculty of Human Sciences | Universidade Católica Portuguesa) (PT) Local partners include Culture+Conflict (UK); The Imperial War Museum (UK); The Liddell Hart Centre at King’s College London (UK); MIMA (UK); Klaipėda University (LT); Gulbenkian Foundation (PT); Rua das Gaivotas 6 (PT); Plataforma de Apoio aos Refugiados (PT)

4Cs | Priorities Capacity Building: Training and Education 4Cs will contribute to the further development of skills of cultural operators (artists, researchers, curators, educators and mediators) while internationalising their careers in order to facilitate access to various professional opportunities as well as to create the conditions for greater transnational circulation of artistic, cultural and creative works and for cross-border networking.

4Cs | Priorities Audience Development 4Cs aims to bring people and culture closer together in strategies to reflect and act upon conflict situations. The project wishes to directly engage people and communities in producing, experiencing, mediating, creating, enjoying and valuing arts and culture in its potential to act socially. Rather than developing activities for audiences, 4Cs will develop a series of activities together with audiences, asking for active participation and engagement as well as co-creation.

4Cs | Objectives 1) To promote an innovative reflection on the role of Europe in emerging forms of conflict and in intercultural dialogue through creative practice (artistic, curatorial and other forms of knowledge production). 2) To stimulate capacity building through career and professional development of skills, competences, know-how and good practices to prepare a new generation of cultural agents able to respond to the challenges of 21st century's conflicts. 3) To promote the circulation and exchange between cultural agents and producers (artists, curators, researchers, policy-makers, mediators and educators) from within and outside Europe with a view to rethink Europe as a site of hospitality and conviviality.

4Cs | Objectives 4) To develop new audiences and new audience practices through the implementation of mediation processes based on proximity and conviviality. 5) To advance intercultural dialogue, developing and raising the interest of new audiences while enhancing the role and impact of European art and cultural institutions in the promotion of responsible citizenship in Europe.

4Cs | Activities (how we will achieve our priorities and objectives) 4Cs | Activities (how we will achieve our priorities and objectives) . 1 Summer School – Convivial Cultures . 8 Multi-Chapter Exhibition . 1 Itinerary (8 partners) film programme curated by Azar Mahmoudian . 5 Conferences . 5 Workshops each with a theme from the 4Cs . 5 Labs for mediation practices . 14 Art-based research residencies . 1 Online Platform All activities will be conceived within the conceptual frame of the 4Cs.

4Cs | Summer School

4Cs | film programme Azar Mahmoudian is a curator and educator based in Tehran. She is part of a collective that co-ran kaf, an independent space focusing on discursive and educational programs on art and theory in Tehran (2010-2015). Azar is also a lecturer at Tehran Art University. Her research develops from her ongoing engagement with display structures and modes of the political imaginary regarding exhibiting formats.

4Cs | multi-chapter exhibition

4Cs | conferences

4Cs | workshops

4Cs | mediation labs

4Cs | residencies

4Cs | online platform Contents of the online platform include: . A growing archive of case studies: project partners and users will be invited to propose and add projects to this section during and after the end of the project; . A repository of relevant information on projects happening in the eight partner institutions during and after the timeframe of 4Cs (in the news section); . The outputs of the activities.

4Cs | Outputs. Handbook of good mediation practices 4Cs | Outputs . Handbook of good mediation practices . Research papers and essays . Research survey . E-Books resulting from the conferences . Exhibition catalogue . Evaluation reports . Videos resulting from all activities