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INTERCULT
CULTURAL CAPITAL,
CULTURAL ECOLOGY
Chris Torch
Program Director, Rijeka 2020 (Croatia)
Senior Associate, Intercult (Stockholm)
Board member: Culture Action Europe
Member: European Experts Network on Culture (EENC)
Tito,	Basilicata,	Italia
28	june 2016
 ... since 1996. A hub for local, regional and
international cultural action. Organises seminars
and workshops. Creates co-productions. Arranges
guest performances from abroad. Develops new
audiences. Advocates progressive cultural policy.
 Since 2008, a national mission as The European
Resource Center for Culture and a European
Union mission as Europe Direct office in Sweden.
A PRODUCTION AND RESOURCE CENTER
Sarajevo (theatre production) 1993 * * = Intercult as Main Organiser
Bacchanalia (theatre production) 1996 *
Landscape X (project) 1997-1998 *
THEOREM (network) 1998-2006 - multi-annual cooperation
Albanian Traces 1999 *
Hotel Europa 2000 *
Culturebase.net (network) 2002 och 2006
Comedia Network (network) 2002-2004  multi-annual cooperation
Baltikum-Adriatico 2003 *
SEAS/Phase 2 - Production 2004
SEAS/Second Wave 2005
25++ 2006
European Operations (Operational Grant) 2006 *
Black/North SEAS 2007-2010 * - multi-annual cooperation
Home not Home 2008  European Year of Intercultural Dialogue
Europa Direkt - Intercult becomes Stockholms Europe Direct 2009-2012
CORNERS/Research & Development 2011-2012 *
CORNERS - turning EUROPE inside out 2014-2018*
EU FUNDED CULTURE PROJECTS 1993-2016
INTERCULT
Arts & Democracy
CITIZEN // VISITOR
developing
intercultural competence
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
INTERCULTURAL INSIGHT
INTER // LOCAL
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International
辿
National
棚
Regional/Local
Environmental change
(technology, sustainability)
Reduced democratic participation
(apathy)
Increased fear of immigration
(islamophobia, cultural introversion)
Shift of economic power
(globalization)
What is an
appropriate
cultural response?
SPACE
Shared Spaces
Imagined Spaces
o museums - making history present
o culture houses - neighborhoods
o public space  la piazza
o theatres, concert halls
PARTICIPATION
 amateurs and professionals
 audience councils
 engaging audiences in process,
not only as consumers
 cultural tourism
 heritage and legacy
Ak巽ako巽a, Turkey - September 2010
Wunderbaum BEER TOURIST
Black/North SEAS, 2008-2010
Re-creating the circle ...
Action Matrix
Each project is evaluated according to the following indicators
impulse
Why should this project be done? What makes it relevant?
place
Where does the project take place? Community, public space, established art spaces, new places for
art?
timing
How long does the project take? Continuous or repeated? Different phases?
action
What will happen? Size and continuity of the event?
strategic partnerships
Who are the co-organizers? Who are the stakeholders? Who could fund it? Other support?
local engagement
Who is the local community engaged? Are they stakeholders/participants or only audience?
potential impact
What are the consequences of the action? What could be the spin-offs?
Liepaja, Latvia on the beach in Karosta
Escape from Troy - Banuta Rubess & NTI/Riga
Stockholm 1998
Landscape X in three parts:
 "Re-mapping" (winter 1998)
 "Euralien" (spring/summer 1998)
 Utopia//Dystopia" (fall 1998)
Bologna 2000
and
Festival DAvignon, Wiener Festwochen,
Bonner Bienalle, Intercult
Hotel Europa
Istanbul 2010
and many others 
Black/North SEAS
the shipyards in Gdansk, Poland - 2004
Gdansk, Poland in the shipyards
Odys-Seas - Leszek Bzdyl & Robert Rumas/Gdansk
august 2004
DATES
 2003,	30	artists	from	11	European	countries	joined	in	
travels	to	unfamiliar	harbour	cities	around	the	Baltic	and	
Adriatic	Seas	
 In	2006/2007,	11	DATES	realized	with	artists	from/to	
different	Black	and	North	Sea	harbour	cities	
Funding	from	ECF,	EU/Culture	2000,	The	Swedish	Institute,	Nordic	Council
and	close	collaboration	with	25++	Program (initiated	by	CulturesFrance)	 and	
culturebase.net	(a	european	database	network)	made	these	research	travels	possible
Klaipeda, Lithuania in the harbour
BARI - Flota/Ljubljana
july 2004
2004
Klaipeda,	Lithuania	(july)
Kaliningrad/Svetlogorsk,	Russia	(july)
Liepaja,	Latvia	(august)
Gdansk,	Poland	(september)
Ljubljana,	Slovenia	(december)
2005
Rijeka,	Croatia	(june)
Koper,	Slovenia	(june)
Stockholm,	Sweden	(august)
Podgorica,	Montenegro	(september)
Udine,	Italy	(october)
Helsinki,	Finland	(november)
Liepaja, Latvia on the beach in Karosta
Escape from Troy - Banuta Rubess/Riga
august 2004
Liepaja, Latvia on the beach in Karosta
Escape from Troy - Banuta Rubess & NTI/Riga
august 2004
Liepaja, Latvia on the beach in Karosta
Escape from Troy - Banuta Rubess/Riga
august 2004
Black/North SEAS
a European platform
Arts, Urban Re-Invention
& Public Space
2007-2010
funded i 40 m奪nader av EU
Kultur programmet
Black	SEAS	2008
Odessa,	Ukraine	(23	may-1	june)
Varna	&	Balchik,	Bulgaria	(3-11	june)
Mangalia,	Romania	(9-15	june)
Black	SEAS	2009
Istanbul,	Turkey	(20-28	march	2009)
North	SEAS	2009
Helsing淡r,	Danmark	(	4-8	august)
G旦teborg,	Sweden	(13-23	august)
Troms淡,	Norway	(12-20	sept)
Skegness/Lincolnshire,	UK	(24	sept-3	oct)
Skegness/Lincolnshire UK
 SEAS Xpedition Turkey with international
team. Istanbul to Hopa  September 2010
 and 
 SEAS X Batumi (Georgia)  Sept 2010
 SEAS X Stockholm (Sweden)  Nov 2010
SEAS X 2010
BACK TO THE BLACK SEA
SEAS Xpedition  Hopa, Turkey, September 2010
Ume奪 2014
Donostia/San	Sebastian	2016
and 11 other partners from 9 countries 
CORNERS
turning Europe
inside out
turning Europe inside out
2014 - 2018
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Partners
Intercult (Sweden)
Exodos (Slovenia)
POGON (Croatia)
Drugo More (Croatia)
CCI//Gdansk (Poland)
Donostia/San Sebastian 2016  European Capital of
Culture (Basque Country/Spain)
Arts Council Northern Ireland (UK)
Isis Arts (UK)
REX (Serbia)
Teatro Pubblico Pugliese (Italy)
DokuFest (Kosovo)
PARTNERS
Artists
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Piazza /
Stanica / Bazar
Piazza /
Stanica / Bazar
DocuArt
Basecamp
Basecamp
Co-creations
Co-creations
Audience
Links
Examples of individual artistic
methods
Digital Thread
Haninge/Stockholm (Sweden)
Prizren (Kosovo),Bela Crkva and Belgrade (Serbia)
Belfast (Northern Ireland, UK)
Rijeka (Croatia)
Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Zagreb (Croatia)
Northumberland (England, UK)
Donostia/San Sebasti叩n (Basque Country, Spain)
Gdask (Poland)
Middlesbrough (England, UK)
Puglia (Italy)
May 2015 
August 2015 
October 2015 
May 2016 
May 2016 
June 2016 
June 2016 
September 2016 
May 2017 
July 2017 
Fall 2017 -
Events
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stories heard on one street corner
retold on another
端Ume奪, Sweden
120.000 people, large university, high tech investment,
European Capital of Culture 2014
端Rijeka, Croatia
150.000 people, large university, post-industrial port,
candidate - European Capital of Culture 2020
端Matera, Italy
70.000 people, small university, cultural heritage/tourism,
European Capital of Culture 2019
SMALL CITIES  BIG FUTURES
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RiHub
co-working, governance innovation,
citizen monitoring
Rijeka Resource
1. BARGES
space & tech
2. CREWS
management & leadership
3. VOYAGERS
public & community
Some lessons
learned:
Sustainable events,
repeated and
developed over a
period of time, with
multiple encounters
choice of themes and
threads: a symbol
hotel
sea
corners
finding the universal
in the provincial
the personal in the
commonwealth
co-creation
it is the collaborative,
cross-cultural factor
which gives a
European dimension
cooperative efforts
create greater impact
Rather than BIG projects,
create BROAD partnerships,
both local and european.
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Yoghurt
Cultures
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CORNERS
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