ARCHETHICS 

Dissonant European heritage as labs of democracy

Edited on 15/10/2025

01/06/2023 31/12/2025

Ongoing
  • Action Planning Network
  • Urban planning
  • Social cohesion
  • Urban renewal

ARCHETHICS network brings together nine European cities that share the presence of heritage linked to a complex and controversial historical past (totalitarian regimes, contentious borders, etc). Architecture, People, History and Ethics will be the four project dimensions to activate urban community labs to transform this heritage, composed of formerly abandoned spaces, into places for locals and visitors for sharing knowledge and coming to multi-perspective understandings of the past and new visions for the future.

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Summary

Partners

Lead Partner : Cesena - Italy
  • Kazanlak - Bulgaria
  • Krakow - Poland
  • Gdańsk - Poland
  • Vila Nova de Cerveira - Portugal
  • Bétera - Spain
  • Leros Island - Greece
  • Leipzig - Germany
  • Përmet - Albania

Timeline

First Transnational meeting in Cesena (IT) on 30 November to 1 December 2023.

  • Second Transnational meeting in Gdansk from 9th to 10th April 2024
  • Gender and multi-perspective approach | online workshop on gender, diversity, ethics and communication 8th May 2024
  • Third Transnational meeting in Albania from 18th (Tirana) to 19th June 2024 (Permet)
  • Architecture and people | online workshop 

 

  • Core Network Meeting in Krakow (Poland) on 1st and 2nd April 2025 
  • Bilateral exchange on Community planning, activists and youth engagement in Krakow (Poland) on 3rd April 2025
  • Political board meeting in Krakow (Poland) on 2nd April 2025 
  • Core Network Meeting in Leipzig (Germany) on 1st and 2nd July 2025 
  • Bilateral exchange on Adaptive reuse on Dissonant Heritage in Kazanlak (Bulgaria) on 4th October 2025

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