Spray
Space Regeneration through Art by Youth
Timespan Countries involved
| 04/2019 12/2019 | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, North Macedonia, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia |
Funded by SDGs
| Erasmus + Programme | 11, 10 |
At a glance
SPRAY believes in the opportunity to reconcile street art and urban and social regeneration through the empowerment of youth at the European level. Urban regeneration also passes through artistic and cultural participation: art, in its different forms, can trigger citizens’ local identities and the rediscovery of public spaces.
SPRAY responded to the need of regenerating degraded areas in both urban and social terms, by using art and, specifically, street art while inverting the perspective associating graffiti with vandalism and the disfigurement of public spaces. The project was designed to build initiatives, driven by youth, to increase urban and social sustainability of neighborhoods. It empowered young citizens to participate in the renewal of their own town!
Objectives
The project aimed at turning sporadic experiments, in the frame of inclusive and sustainable urbanization, into bottom-up initiatives: a few cities in former Communist countries had experimented actions, this project was conceived to upscaling and coordinating them. SPRAY aimed at testing the interconnections between contemporary arts and the social complexity of degraded areas, to transform them in sustainable urban hubs.
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Spray
Timespan Countries involved
| 04/2019 12/2019 | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, North Macedonia, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia |
Founded by SDGs
| Erasmus + Programme | 11, 10 |
At a glance
SPRAY believes in the opportunity to reconcile street art and urban and social regeneration through the empowerment of youth at the European level. Urban regeneration also passes through artistic and cultural participation: art, in its different forms, can trigger citizens’ local identities and the rediscovery of public spaces.
SPRAY responded to the need of regenerating degraded areas in both urban and social terms, by using art and, specifically, street art while inverting the perspective associating graffiti with vandalism and the disfigurement of public spaces. The project was designed to build initiatives, driven by youth, to increase urban and social sustainability of neighborhoods. It empowered young citizens to participate in the renewal of their own town!
Objectives
The project aimed at turning sporadic experiments, in the frame of inclusive and sustainable urbanization, into bottom-up initiatives: a few cities in former Communist countries had experimented actions, this project was conceived to upscaling and coordinating them. SPRAY aimed at testing the interconnections between contemporary arts and the social complexity of degraded areas, to transform them in sustainable urban hubs.