Belgium (Urban Foxes):
Bram Dewolfs

Bulgaria (Gradoscope, New Architecture Heritage):
Daiana Nikolova, Nevena Germanova, Adriyana Mihaylova, Ina Valkanova, Pavel Yanchev

Cyprus (Emphasys Centre):
Andrianna Georgiou, Chrystalla Thrasyvoulou, Demetra Orthodoxou, Nicholas Moudouros, Athos Charalambides

Germany (CGI Erfurt):
Ammalia Podlaszewska, Carla Molteni, Robert Nesirky, Zafar Saydaliev

Italy (Squadri Urbani):
Antonio La Barba, Luisa Tuttolomondo, Lucrezia Mannino

Spain (Municipality of Murcia):
Amber Kay, Jesús de la Peña

Cultural space activation is a part of the larger framework of adaptive reuse of cultural heritage (ARCH) policies and practices. ARCH has different political, legal and practical bases and hence different operational modes (“how things are done”) in different contexts. The report looks through different lens and axis: the one of heritage protection, its scope and the levels that it operates in different countries, through different power and institutional structures that work (or not) in the field, through different possibilities of funding and synergies potential, through opportunities for business models and job creation, through possibilities of community engagement. All these aspects have been described in an extensive report in three different chapters: (1) policy and legal framework overview of the field of ARCH, (2) focus group discussion between different actors, engaged theoretically and practically with the topic and (3) brief description of 15 observatory cases of projects that have been realised or developed in the six different country contexts.

This project is co-funded by the CREATIVE EUROPE Programme of the European Union. Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.