Singular and unifying initiatives led by citizens, artists, communities, actors in the social, hospital or educational fields, the 8 winning projects of our call “Mediations and Cultural Democracy” testify to the need to energize local alliances in rural areas. Selected from 206 applications for the relevance of their governance, their participatory process or their subject, they will be supported over a period of 6 months in the maturation phase, or over 2 to 3 years for their deployment.
Le Jardin-cocon
http://www.assohoteldesvoyageurs.org/
The association and its partners are planning to reinvent an integration garden in the rural village of Cunlhat, to create a place for intergenerational and intercultural sharing. The layout will involve the participative creation of works of art: cocoons crocheted from dyed natural fibers and architectures to host artistic workshops, a vegetable garden and a botanical garden. Later, an open-air theater will welcome social structures and local residents for performances, discussion forums and workshops on food and nature.
Our utopia: rebuilding the Assembly
The Assembly’s project aims to recreate collective practices in the “maisons d’Assemblée “, small buildings specific to Velay, built by the inhabitants in the 18th century to host collective activities (school for children, prayers, meetings of inhabitants, convivial times, etc.). To amplify and sustain the citizen dynamic that is being formed to bring them back to life, the Assembly will invite residents to imagine the future and possible uses of these buildings, with the support of artistic teams who, through various experiments, will make the reinvention of these places attractive and unifying.
Les Assemblées extraordinaires: Arts et cultures nourricières en pays d’Apt
Co-constructed by a collective of cultural actors, artists, social institutions and associations, the project consists of initiating citizens’ conventions of the arts and food cultures in the Pays d’Apt, according to the process of the Citizens’ Convention for the Climate. Punctuated by artistic practices, this project deployed over 3 years will allow the actors to apply the process and then to heterogeneous groups including vulnerable or precarious people, to lead to the production and dissemination of artistic forms created with the people involved.
The citizen’s Estafette
The AJAL and the artistic collective Prodiges are carrying out a cultural mediation project founded on the initiative of the Blues Squatters. On board the Estafette, a mobile guinguette stage, this group of musicians made up of psychiatric users travels through the villages where they were born or grew up to share their identity and initiate new cultural projects. AJAL and Prodiges create an inclusive cultural ecosystem, valuing art as a driver of dialogue, integration and territorial revitalization, by addressing complex issues such as psychosocial rehabilitation.
Eating with your ears
Bringing together citizens, artists, farmers, shopkeepers and local associations, the project aims to produce a participatory theatrical performance: a large orchestrated dinner, the fruit of a work of collection and sound creations carried out in the area on the subject of food production and food. An evolving sound piece will then be the subject of public listening sessions, accompanied by debates with producer farmers and food sharing.
ARCHIPELES
https://lozerelafabulerie.com/
ARCHIPELs is a hybrid, participatory artistic creation, combining the living, visual and digital arts with the singularities of the valleys of the Southern Cévennes. On the one hand, there are Archipelagos of co-creation, where residents, artists and scientists are invited to create through artistic and cultural education workshops, meetings, artistic evenings, etc.; and on the other, Archipelagos of co-distribution, where artistic objects are invited into the homes of residents. ARCHIPELs is based on two themes: Eaux vives (Living Waters), about water-related issues, and Si près de toi (So Close to You), about notions of isolation and proximity. A traveling interactive exhibition, a podcast and a logbook will provide continuity and a trace of the project.
La Bulle
Within the Centre hospitalier d’Aiguilles-Queyras, La Bulle is a space open to meetings between residents, residents and beneficiaries, their entourage and health professionals, in order to develop a local citizen dynamic, thanks to artistic creation. Under a shared governance, driven by the values of knowledge sharing, ecology and solidarity, La Bulle is structured through a dozen artistic residencies (architectural creation, vegetable garden design, graphic development and free activation protocols), mediation actions in the village and the whole of Queyras.