CTM project #shares: 2026 Reflection Workshop in Marseille

What is CTM project?

Cultural Transformation Movement (CTM) project is a context-based process to diversify artistic production and its destination starting from within the organisation. It is led by Trans Europe Halles with four of TEH members, Brunnenpassage from Austria, VIERNULVIER from Belgium, Zo centro culture contemporanee from Italy, IZOLYATSIA. Platform for Cultural Initiatives from Ukraine. With the Cultural Transformation Movement project, we are taking real steps, making genuine commitments and openly sharing experiences with the other TEH members about how to make social justice a priority in arts, culture and creative industries. Funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, the Cultural Transformation Movement project is designed for four years (2023-2027) and aims to transform the participating cultural organisations, so they include and reflect the full range of backgrounds and perspectives to be found in European society today.

What is Reflection Workshop?

Collective Reflection Workshop is an essential part of CTM project. Taking place twice a year: during TEH Annual Conference and TEH Camp Meeting, Reflection Workshop is facilitated by Laura Camacho Salgado, CTM Artistic Transformation Facilitator, and aims to provide a platform for CTM artists/agents-of-change (called #AoCs) from participating centers-of-change (called #CoCs) to meet together, reflect on their experiences with the local context and share their impressions, notes and major findings from the encounters with the local communities of the participating #CoCs in Italy, Belgium, Austria and Ukraine.

Reflection Workshop is a chance for #AoCs to learn from each other and develop collective approaches to proactively engage with the local context throughout the cultural transformation process towards social justice & across borders.

Reflection Workshop #7: 2056: Radical Cartographies of Future

2056 radical cartographies of future was a three-hour collective workshop with approximately forty participants, including #AoCs, #CoCs, TEH Members, and cultural practitioners from across Europe.

The workshop was conceived as a live cartographic experiment in how futures are produced, distributed, and contested through cultural practice.

At its core, the workshop returned to a set of urgent questions:

• Who is allowed to imagine the future?

• Who effectively owns the future, and through which systems of power?

• Which present conditions prevent long-term projection and collective futurity?
• What happens if mapping is not representation, but an active production of reality?

• And how does artistic practice intervene when it becomes part of that mapping process?

To explore this, the workshop used radical cartography as both method and conceptual frame, combining embodied listening, layered mapping exercises, speculative world-building oriented toward 2056, and artistic production processes as live interventions into collective thinking.

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