Outputs
Final Video
Through theatre performances, workshops, public meetings and research activities, UNLOCK THE CITY! has explored the relationship between theatre, urban landscape and community, contributing to imagine new ways of living in and interpreting the post-pandemic city.
The three-year journey of UNLOCK THE CITY! (2023-2026) is narrated by the voices of the various theatrical and academic organisations that have joined forces to create this multidisciplinary project.
An Atlas in Motion
A visual representation of the urban areas examined, bringing the four cities into a single landscape.
The map was created by the Romanian graphic designer Sorina Vazelina, with the coordination of Teatrul Tineretului, and was conceived to highlight how the different artistic interventions interacted with the specific nature of each location and its communities.
The Scrapbook
The Scrapbook, produced under the coordination of NTA at HIOF, brings together an eclectic set of contributions from all partners, and all participants to Creative Labs and the several research activities - such as data and contextual information, maps, texts, visual and representative materials - creating a shared knowledge base that supports both the research dimension and the artistic development of the project.
This assemblage gathers materials contributed by the seven partners. They do not form a single narrative. Instead, they
remain irregular and multifaceted, composed of encounters, absences, and hidden corners. You are invited to move quietly among its elements, noticing what becomes visible
along the way.
How to Public Space
The Manual for artistic research by AMU is available now!
This text is the result of research and dialogues of Ludvík Píza, Jana Stárková, and Sodja Lotker, during the European project UNLOCK THE CITY!,
a long-term collaboration between the Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa, the Teatre
Lliure in Spain, the Teatrul Tineretului in Romania, the Toneelhuis in Belgium and academic institutions such as The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (AMU), The Norwegian Theatre Academy at Østfold
University College and the Politecnico di Milano in Italy. For this project, city theatres from four countries sought to re-define their position within the city.
To request the full book, please contact this email address info@unlockthecity.eu
Guidelines for the Local Administrations
A guide to address complex implementation challenges by POLIMI
This document identifies practical recommendations from UNLOCK THE CITY!
It explores how theatre practice can become a tool for raising awareness of sustainable urban regeneration actions.
With reference to the different dimensions of culture-driven regeneration projects, it complements existing formal observation and monitoring tools. It seeks to anticipate possible criticalities, while fostering relationships among all actors involved, inside and outside municipal administration.
It is a device aimed at strengthening mechanisms that consolidate implementation capacity, with attention to favour unified governance of
culture-led regeneration.
This resource serves municipal administrators, planners, cultural policy makers and local associations seeking to develop inclusive regeneration approaches, strengthen cultural-community connections, enable experimental practices, build sustainable networks and engage in international collaboration.
For these reasons Guidelines are available also in: