In this material, Laska Nenova takes us through the history of the placemaking movement, reaching the role it plays nowadays in the development of public spaces in Bulgaria. What placemaking actually is, what the challenges are and how the national network Placemaking Connected was established in 2023. These are the questions that Laska, founder of the BG Be Active Association, answers through the prism of her many years of professional practical and strategic experience in

In the autumn of 2023, six Bulgarian artists and curator Boyana Dzhikova, by the invitation of the centre for contemporary art CAIRN Centre d’art , carried out a 10-day residency in the mountain town of Digne-les-Bains, Southern France (Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region). Its aim was the realization of a project in public environment in 2025 - exhibitions in the closed shops of one of the main streets in the area of the Old Town, which, as a consequence of the emergence of su

Hester Gartrell explores two examples from East London of the interaction between arts and cultural initiatives, municipal politics and loca