Once a popular destination for travellers and campers, the Oasis Former Camping Site in Eleusis has recently undergone a transformation that reconnects it with the city’s cultural and environmental identity. This historic site, which spans over 20,500 square meters, is a focal point of the HeritACT project, integrating the preservation of industrial and cultural heritage with sustainable urban planning and community engagement.

In Eleusis, a city where history intertwines with mythology and industry, the Old Oil Mill Factory stands as a remarkable testament to the town’s industrial heritage. This historic site, a focus of the HeritACT project, embodies the transformation of Eleusis into a hub of innovation, resilience, and cultural pride.

What did we do in 2023 and 2024 to foster partnerships, share knowledge and create synergies to amplify our impact at European level? Here we share some highlights.

As we close 2024, the HeritACT Milan pilot has achieved remarkable milestones, weaving together culture, sustainability, and inclusion into the ecosystem of Milan’s historical cascine.

Arts and Cultural Management Conference 2024: HeriACT goes to Vienna for the ENCC-ACMC special panel on cultural heritage

Cine Eleusis, once one of the 13 movie theaters that operated in Elefsina, has been beautifully renovated and revitalized as both a cinema and a space for community activities and events.

Between 6 and 8 October, HeritACT travelled to Bucharest to get inspired at the Europa Nostra's European Cultural Heritage Summit 2024. Here we tell you how it went and share some key highlights.

The perception of Iris among Eleusinians, both as a historical monument and as a renovated cultural venue, varies greatly. Located on Eleusis's waterfront, a historically contested area, Iris's future is closely tied to broader urban development plans for the port area. As one local put it, "I personally like that area. If they fixed up the harbour a bit, added some greenery, nicer cafés, and generally cleaned up the area, it would become more lively".

The Old Canteen of Eleusis, a renovated cultural space located in the city’s waterfront with the unique industrial sunset, a hub of activities for the educational and local community within the framework of the HeritACT project, bears an interesting history and many memories for the local community.

On July 10th, 2024, HeritACT hub in Ballina hosted a successful Heritage Day pop-up event on Pearse Street, where community members of all ages came together to shape the future of their town. The event featured an innovative voting survey for adults and engaging Minecraft gameplay activities for children, both aimed at reactivating key heritage sites in Ballina.

Memorable findings (moments) from HeritACT’s first three months bringing together community voices able to unlock the collective vision of the city.

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.