Porteurs du projet :
Natalia BOBADILLA – ACT
Thèmes de la recherche :
Alternative Cultural Place – Transformation – Effects – Action Research – Sustainability
Le projet de recherche :
Alternative Cultural Places (ACPs) across Europe are navigating extreme instability due to political repression, economic precarity, displacement, and shifting cultural policies. Unlike institutional spaces, ACPs operate on the margins and must constantly adapt, often through inventive but fragile strategies like hybrid programming, flexible spatial use, and deep community engagement—especially for marginalized groups. These adaptations, while creative, bring internal strains such as burnout, resource scarcity, and weakened governance.
Despite their vital role in fostering inclusivity, creativity, and civic resilience, ACPs are often undervalued and burdened with solving broader societal issues without adequate support. Current academic research often fails to capture the urgency and complexity of their situation. This action-research project seeks to address this gap by investigating how current transformations affect the sustainability of Alternative Cultural Places. It examines the impacts of these changes at the individual, organisational, and urban levels, while asking what tools and methodologies can be designed to support ACPs in navigating these conditions. The goal is to co-design adaptive strategies that help ACPs preserve their autonomy, imaginative potential, and cultural value—aligned with the ethos of the New European Bauhaus and grounded in situated, participatory inquiry.
