CTM project #shares: 2025 Knowledge Roundtable
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 Knowledge Roundtable?
Knowledge Roundtable is an essential part of the CTM project happening on the transnational, collective level. Facilitated by Israel Aloni, the CTM project researcher, Knowledge Roundtable is an annual meet-up at TEH Camp Meeting aiming to present the so-far research findings, as well as share and collectively reflect on the important project knowledge and valuable insights collected by the CTM project researcher over the past year. The CTM project knowledge is being built gradually over the years 2024-2027 and will eventually culminate in the CTM project final publication.
CTM project partners are active participants of Knowledge Roundtable, together with other TEH members who are invited to participate as observers.
What was the second Knowledge Roundtable held at 2025 TEH Camp Meeting 100 'SHIFT + CULTURE' about?
The third Knowledge Roundtable that took place in November 2025 at the annual TEH Camp Meeting 100 focused on thinking about creation processes which involve, include, relate to and consider community, and ideas about diversification of knowledge, methodologies and aesthetics. The roundtable offered insight into the work and developments of CTMP thus far and involved all participants in dynamic collective imagining of creative processes that could in some way transgress convention.
From the report: "Invite childlike play and playfulness into our processes: Being open to unpredictable processes, allowing the wander of the journey to navigate us to unfamiliar places, fall deeply into a tunnel filled with possibilities and potentialities, allowing our imagination to inspire us and encourage us, accept our desires and need to also be motivated by joy and enjoyment without feeling ashamed or guilty about it".
Curious to read more about what was discussed during the 2025 Knowledge Roundtable of the Cultural Transformation Movement (CTM) project?
