Creative Europe
Desk UK
for Culture

Transparent Boundaries ( Lace – Networks – Space – Architecture): Dialogue with the Elder
The project partners met in Brussels to prepare for this project and agreed the following in their Brussels Declaration!
Our Aim
Explore the visibility of the elder in contemporary Europe through creative dialogue informed by the structural and cultural understanding of lace net-works.
Our Objectives
– Question the materiality and form of boundaries and thresholds in order to challenge their purpose and function.
– develop lace net-works both materially and conceptually as a means of forming series of innovative connections, surrounding but not enclosing space, thus affording access.
– Capture the impact of lace net-works structures on community inter-connectedness through trans-generational and cross-cultural creative collaborations.
– Disseminate outcomes through a series of exhibitions, performances and workshops
Dialogues with the Elder
1: If space has boundaries is there another space beyond those boundaries?
2: How to forge relationships between walled-off spaces?
Through a series of dialogues with the Elder, guided by these questions, the project partnership will creatively respond to and reflect on the multifaceted demographic realities of Europe.
Lace: materiality and metaphor
Networks: disciplines and cultures
Space: Development and performance
Architecture: Structures and relationships
Dialogues through Creative and Performing Arts