Creative Europe
Desk UK
for Culture

“Seeing Stories – Recovering Landscape Narrative in Urban and Rural Europe” (RENALUR) focuses on urban and rural European landscapes and the narratives that animate and give meaning to the natural and human environments in interaction.

Often these remain untold below the surface. By bringing together local and international dimensions, the project aims at enhancing and communicating a shared experience of place, so increasing mutual understanding and promotion of European landscape narrative in contemporary cultural and economic contexts.

Project partners established in Scotland, Italy, Portugal and Germany will work on the achievement of the following shared objectives:

• Research and interpretation of European local narratives in urban and rural contexts.
• Development of creative Storyguides shaped on European landscapes.
• Development of the use of live oral storytelling as a method for promoting local narratives at a local and transnational level.
• Support of the sustainability of the project at a national and transnational level by sharing its main outcomes with tourism sector, local governments and other cultural operators.
• Support of the professional development of European cultural operators working in the field of storytelling and oral narratives.
• Support of the professional development of European storytellers.

Main outcomes of the project will be:

• Creative Storyguides;
• Storytelling festivals;
• Workshops; seminars;
• International network of cultural operators working in the field of storytelling/landscape narratives;
• Web platform for sharing project resources and encourage further networking and collaboration.