Inhabiting the Palace

A participatory cultural process that seeks to activate the Cerezo Palace, a public building in the Jerte Valley (Cáceres) conceived as a congress centre and completed without programming or management model after the 2008 crisis. The project proposes to work with the population of the region to imagine cultural uses for this space and explore its role in the social and cultural life of the territory. The initiative is promoted by the Association of Municipalities of the Jerte Valley together with the architecture and mediation collective cAnicca, with the support of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation within the framework of its Citizen Art axis. Through listening processes, workshops and collective creation (including the design of mobile furniture for the building) the project seeks to collaboratively build a cultural strategy that connects the Palacio del Cerezo with the eleven villages of the valley and reinforces the cultural ecosystem of the territory.