Sweden | Culture Action Europe's Beyond the Obvious conference 2024

United by Future Places is the 2024 edition of Culture Action Europe's Beyond the Obvious conference. It will take place in Malmö, Sweden, from 29 May to 1 June 2024.

This international get together invites practitioners, organisations and institutions, policy-makers, thinkers, researchers, activists and art-ivists from the cultural and social sectors working on topics related to cultural democracy, citizenship, urban and public spaces and sustainability.

Places matter, and so does culture. United by Future Places | Beyond the Obvious will address questions on how to rethink the future of cities as places for collective living with culture as the guiding principle. How can the European cultural sector propose new narratives and images for sustainable futures?

This initiative seeks to ignite discourse on how the European cultural sector can spearhead the creation of new narratives and visions for sustainable futures, anchored in principles of public and democratic spaces, social and climate justice, and cultural citizenship. Through projects aimed at revitalising public spaces, fostering community engagement, promoting democracy, advocating for climate justice, and ensuring equal access to cultural participation, the conference endeavours to chart a course towards inclusive, resilient, and thriving societies.

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