CO-VISION Blueprint

From Situated Practices to a Transferable Methodology

This Co-Vision Blueprint represents the common effort of the project partnership after a multi-year process of collaboration, experimentation and exchange. Before exploring its content, we would like to clarify the rationale behind its development.

It responds to a shared need to better understand and structure how participatory cultural practices can generate meaningful environmental awareness and engagement. In this sense, the Blueprint aims to support cultural and artistic organisations in strengthening their role within this evolving field.

The framework has been developed collectively, grounded in the belief that cultural participation plays a fundamental role in addressing contemporary ecological and social challenges. It is not only a matter of enabling access to culture, but of fostering conditions for active engagement, co-creation and shared responsibility within specific territorial contexts. This perspective implies a shift from isolated cultural production towards more relational, process-driven practices.

What can cultural actors do to contribute to this transition? In our view, by equipping themselves with methodologies, tools and collaborative approaches that allow participation to emerge as a structured and intentional process. This involves not only designing experiences, but structuring a process in which scientific knowledge provides a validated foundation, design translates and simplifies complexity through accessible languages, and artistic practices amplify and communicate these insights — enabling their transmission to broader communities and society.

In this perspective, a key question concerns the extent to which these processes can be transferred, adapted and replicated beyond their original context. What elements remain context-specific, and which can inform a broader methodological framework? What forms of documentation are required to support this transition from situated practice to shared knowledge?

By structuring these questions within a coherent analytical framework, the Co-Vision Blueprint aims to contribute to the development of a transferable methodology, capable of supporting future cultural initiatives operating at the intersection of participation, environmental responsibility and artistic production.