An Experiment in Collaborative Change-making in the Arts

RESHAPE is a collaborative, bottom-up research process that proposes instruments for transition towards an alternative, fairer, and unified arts ecosystem across Europe and the Southern Mediterranean. Read more about RESHAPE's experimental method and process.

RESHAPE method

Prototypes

Delve into the results of RESHAPE: the ideas and instruments proposed by artists and art workers to reshape the working models in the field of arts and culture. Feel free to adopt, apply, and build upon them in your practice! Prototypes are available in French here: reshape.network/uploads/document/file/203/Reshape_FR.pdf

Governance Of The Possible

Following the call of the RESHAPE Network to reimagine alternatives for the European arts ecosystem – specifically fairer governance models – we built a collective proposal for action underpinned by a new paradigm.

by Helga Baert, Martin Schick, Sam Trotman

Transnational and Postnational Practices Manual

Imagining an artworld “after the national”, this prototype guides you in putting connection before movement in a transnational and postnational art practice.

by Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen, Pau Cata, Petr Dlouhy, Heba el-Cheikh, Gjorgje Jovanovik, Marta Keil, Dominika Święcicka, Marine Thévenet, Ingrid Vranken

Introduction to Solidarity Economies Proposals

Reframing the funding and economies in the arts field to be more in line with the principals of solidarity.

by Ouafa Belgacem, Ekmel Ertan, Harald Geisler, Anastasya Kizilova, Dorota Ogrodzka, Aniko Racz, Laure Deselys, Doreen Toutikian

The Gamified Workshop Toolkit: Values of Solidarity

The Gamified Workshop Toolkit was especially designed for teams that are just beginning their collaboration, primarily in the field of arts and culture, but also in other relevant sectors.

by Dorota Ogrodzka, Aniko Racz, Doreen Toutikian

The Solidarity Tax

A provocative idea on power dynamics in cultural projects, creative control, diversity, and eligibility.

by Doreen Toutikian

ArtBnB

Generating new resources to redress the balance of power in current arts grant-making.

by Ouafa Belgacem, Anastasya Kizilova

Department of Civil Imagination

A fictional department resourcing the ‘civil imagination’ as a radical act to reshape realities in poetic, practical and political ways.

by Ana Alexieva, An Vandermeulen, Chiara Organtini, Jessica Huber , Joon Lynn Goh, Maria Vlachou, Paky Vlassopoulou, Shelagh Wright and Peter Jenkinson, Virág Major

Value of Art in Social Fabric

Through the metaphor of Home and the Suitcase, this prototype raises awareness about the position of the artist and the impact, tangible and intangible, of art in the social fabric.

by Tewa Barnosa, Zoe Lafferty, Caroline Melon, Minipogon , Margarita Pita, Jean-Lorin Sterian, Marina Urruticoechea, Bojan Krištofić

Evaluation — Actors, Values, and Metrics

An examination of modes, values, methods, and metrics of evaluation with an aim to develop more organic, bottom-up led evaluation practices in arts and culture.

by Eduardo Bonito, Katarina Pavić, Claire Malika Zerhouni