WOOL 
TALK 03
14th of JUNE
14h30 > 16h00
CIEC – Centro de Inovação Empresarial da Covilhã _ Rua António Angusto Aguiar, 60
The WOOL TALKS will have simultaneous English-Portuguese and Portuguese-English translation.
Places are very limited, subject to registration and confirmation of payment.
Admission fee (one-time only): € 10 _ includes WOOL 2024 tote bag, WOOL 2024 A6 notepad, WOOL pencil.
Program, information and registration HERE
”Can Urban Art be a public policy instrument for the development of territories?”
There are countless examples of geographies, from the four corners of the world, of the most varied scales, which spontaneously or strategically, by private initiative or by public organizations and/or political decision-makers, are today taking on the role of stages for artistic creation in public spaces. This is the most democratic and democratizing place, where all of art’s capabilities can be harnessed, where an audience of enormous diversity can be fully integrated and involved, without distinction or discrimination. So can we question the use of these artistic expressions as mere decoration and take them on as tools for transforming a territory or community? Can Urban Art projects be vehicles for social, cultural, urban, economic or political change? Can they be operators and/or mediators of awareness-raising operations, inclusion or social and territorial cohesion, and therefore, “Can Urban Art be an instrument of public policies for the development of territories?”
Speakers:
Hugo Cardoso, coordinator of the Urban Art Gallery – Lisbon City Council, MURO Festival – Lisbon (Portugal)
Isabel Simões Pinto, Councillor for Culture, Estarreja Town Council, ESTAU Festival – Estarreja (Portugal)
María Esther Gutiérrez Morán, Primera de Territorio, Igualdad y Cultura de la Diputación de Cáceres, Muro Critico Festival – Cáceres (Spain)
(to be confirmed)
Moderator:
João Aidos, engineer, manager and cultural programme maker – Coimbra (Portugal)