Empowering Participation in Culture and Architecture – EPICA

Financed by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia

Realization period: 2022-2024

Description:

The project's goal is to find alternative, systemic solutions and decision-making models based on the principles of democracy, fairness, solidarity, and concern for people and the environment, through an examination of concepts and theories of participation in culture, urban planning, management, and the economy. The project brings together a team of leading, internationally recognized researchers and practitioners from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, the Faculty of Architecture, the Institute of Economic Sciences, the Faculty of Sports and Psychology - Tims, and the Faculty of Fine Arts in Serbia. The project will provide: 1) innovative and systemic, empirically tested models and tools for participation in culture, architecture, and urban planning; 2) relevant recommendations for public policies; 3) a framework for a new transdisciplinary theory of participation; and 4) new methodological approaches to participation research.