The sea, a city surrounded by Greek islands, tasty food and some saharan dust in the air. These could be simple highlights of how the environment was feeling in the first HeritACT General Assembly hosted by the University of Patras in beautiful Greece.

From the kick-off in early 2023, HeritACT has embarked on a journey, not just to contribute to cultural heritage but to reimagine it through contemporary design and community engagement.

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) University College Dublin are among the awardees for their projects Tova and Ripple, respectively, that aimed to reconnect with nature, shape a circular industrial ecosystem and support life-cycle thinking.

Some days ago, we held a very special kickoff meeting in Milan of the HeriTACT project, an EU funded project under the auspices of the New European Bauhaus (NEB) initiative. HeriTACT aims to bridge the past and the future of urban heritage in a more inclusive, sustainable and participatory way.

The HeritACT project will test the toolkit and solutions for a better communication and participation in cultural heritage in three demo-site: Milan (IT), Ballina (IR) and Elefsina (GR). In this sense, the Italian pilot brings together the past and the future of heritage to establish ecological practices and collaborative design installations through a traditional rural way of living estates called cascine.