Lígia Afonso
ligia.afonso@ipleiria.pt
03.11.25 — 07.11.25
LiDA collaborates closely with the National Plan for the Arts on the Youth Consultation Initiative for Cultural Rights and Citizenship across Europe, aiming to strengthen the PORTO SANTO CHARTER, a charter guides EU programs, governmental strategies, and citizen engagement in cultural affairs, emphasizing the importance of culture, arts, and education in fostering democracy. LiDA’s cultural researchers are supporting the development of a YOUTH ADDENDUM TO THE CHARTER, to amplify the voices of young people in shaping the future of cultural citizenship and artistic education. This effort aligns with the “Youth – Action – Culture: Towards Cultural Democracy” conference, organized with partners such as the NPA, the UNESCO Chair in Arts and Cultural Management, Cities and Creativity, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and the European Network of Observatories (ENO) in the Field of Arts and Culture Education. LiDA’s involvement in these initiatives reflects its commitment to promoting cultural and artistic education, including through events like “Learning from the Young: Cultural and Artistic Education Towards Cultural Democracy”, a side event for the UNESCO World Conference in Culture, Arts and Education.
Since 2023, we have been implemented workshops using the “Tell Those in Charge” method, a method that gathers social sciences, popular education, education for global citizenship, and physical symbols. This workshops where conducted across Europe (e.g., Portugal, Poland and Slovenia, Austria, Scotland, Spain, Estonia, the Netherlands, Latvia, Sweden and Belgium), applied by NPA associates, to ensure that youth voices were collected and heard on a European landscape, and these partial reports will be delivered late June.
Two master’s-level researchers, one from Sociology and another from Cultural Management fields will then be working during 3 granted months to guarantee the accuracy of the processing and analysis of the data and contributions from the implementation of this multiple workshops in a European context. Their final report will serve as anchor of the zero version of the Addendum, that will be collaboratively drafted in a residency format.
LIDA integrated members will be responsible, with the NPA, for the organization of the residency programme to co-design and draft the Addendum with a group of experts and young people. The residence will happen between 4 and 6 November, in Torres Vedras, with the Municipality support, and will involve 20 people: 8 Portuguese experts, including 4 students; 8 foreign experts, including 4 students; and 4 people accompanying, including production, PNA, LIDA and CMTV.
The zero version of the Addendum will be available to public discussion, collecting feedback for improvement. A final version will be unveiled at another European Conference, organised by young people, in Caldas da Rainha. Subsequently, it will be presented to political leaders, the European Commission, and UNESCO by the first trimester of 2025. From April 2025 to the end of 2027, efforts will focus on disseminating the Addendum, its recommendations, and the ongoing collaborative process worldwide.
16h45 Loulé criativa
17h00 Islamic Baths
18h30 Braiding Stories
20h00 Dinner
8h30 Breakfast
9h30 Presentations
12h45 Lunch
14h30 Workshops
20h00 Dinner
8h30 Breakfast
9h30 Workshop
12h Visit to Querença
12h30 Lunch
14h00 Manuel Viegas Foundation Eco Trail
15h00 Workshop
18h00 # meme, deeds, stories
18h20 Workshop Vegetable Oracle
19h30 Dinner
21h30 Return to Loulé
8h30 Breakfast
9h30 Workshop on drafting the Zero version – addendum to the Porto Santo Charter by young people
Participants: Alex, Annis, Clara, Inês Costa, Jade, Karolina, Muriel, Pedro Manuel
11h30 Presentation and discussion of proposals
12h30 Lunch
14h00 to 16h30 Transfers
8h30 Breakfast
10h00 Transfer
Writers:
Alex Martínez, Anabela Conceição, Andrea De Pascual, Anis Oepkes, Carolina Franco, Catherine Stilmant, Clara Passarinho, Inês Câmara, Inês Carvalho Costa, Jade Aura Nunes, Karolina Rozek, Lígia Afonso, Marco Fiore, Miguel Santos, Muriel Lima, Pedro Manuel Colaço, Sara Brighenti, Urša Strehar Benčina
Production:
PNA/Ursula Mendoza Balcazar
LIDA/Cátedra UNESCO IPLeiria/Mapa das Ideias
Other invited participants:
Paulo Pires Vale, Telma Lopes, Catarina Pereira, Luís Carmelo, Dália Paulo, Loulé Design Lab
Loulé Design Lab
Plano Nacional das Artes
UNESCO
The first work is co-funded by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P., in the scope of the Programmatic Funding allocated to the Research Laboratory in Design and Arts (LIDA) with the reference “UIDP/05468/2020″, by the National Plan for the Arts and by Erasmus+
