ALILAND among the 10 exemplary European projects in ecological transition according to Creative Europe
This selection recognises the value of cultural and artistic work as an indispensable tool in the ecological transition
We are proud to announce that ALILAND, our European project on participatory art and the repair of post-industrial territories, has been selected to feature in Tracing Constellations: Stories of culture, cooperation and impact across Creative Europe cooperation projects (2021–2024), a publication by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the European Commission.
This publication brings together 50 standout projects from the nearly 600 funded by the Creative Europe programme between 2021 and 2024 through its Cooperation Projects call. ALILAND is one of 10 projects selected as an example of good practice in the field of green transition and sustainability — one of the five thematic constellations that structure the publication, alongside democracy and European values, youth, digital transformation, and new practices and models in the cultural sector.
The publication places ALILAND within the Green Transition and Sustainability chapter, which brings together projects that are actively reimagining the role of cultural practitioners in addressing ecological challenges. According to Tracing Constellations, these projects contribute to sustainability through complementary approaches: transforming sectoral practices, reducing the CO₂ impact of cultural production and distribution, raising awareness of environmental issues through cultural processes, and creating the time and space to work with communities and professionals in developing new imaginaries and regenerative — rather than extractivist — cultural models.
The publication explicitly highlights ALILAND as an example of how cultural action can transform abandoned spaces into sites of collective reimagining, within the axis of post-industrial transformation and territorial repair.
To explore these approaches further, the publication's authors interviewed Alicia Ruiz Muñoz and Fran Quiroga, from Concomitentes, coordinators of the ALILAND project, to discuss how the arts contribute to repairing both land and communities when addressing environmental issues.
This selection recognises the work of Concomitentes and its European partners as a reference model for the field, and confirms that culture — when practised through listening, participation and territorial commitment — is an indispensable tool in the ecological transition of our societies.