/ FERTILE GROUND
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FERTILE GROUND | gonimo edafos
Fertile Ground (Gonimo Edafos) is a sustainable cultural development program for cultural and/or historical importance public spaces that aims:
a. to activate and engage local community and visitors to participate in the area's cultural development
b. to co-create a sustainable cultural vision for the region with the participation of citizens and the local Municipality
c. to furthur train and support public and municipal officials, institutions, local groups and cultural professionals in matters of sustainable development, accessibility, cultural production and cross-sectoral collaborations in the field of culture.
Fertile Ground was designed and developed by COMM'ON and Lipasmata Park (Polychoros Lipasmaton Drapetsonas) with the support of KDBM II Keratsiniou - Drapetsonas .
The program was under the auspice and funding of the Greek Ministry of Culture.
project results
(2022) next day of
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In June 2022, COMM'ON moderated an online conversation around the strategic development of Lipasmata Park between Christos Vrettakos (Mayor of Keratsini-Drapetsona), Stavroula Syrakou (President of KDVM II & Culture, Sports and Education Municipal Advisor), Vasilis Tsiggeris (Vice Mayor & Vice President of KDVM II) and Theodora Kritikou (Municipal Director for Envitonmental Issues).
(2024) a hybrid cultural tour for lipasmata park
The new digital platform of Lipasmata Park, gives digital visitors access to browse through the history of the former industrial area, learn about the industrial buildings that still exist and hear the Podcast series "Labor Park" that presents the history of the former factory and the stories of people who worked and lived in the area.
The platform gives access to a digital and physical "walk" around the Park, giving online and offline visitors the opportunity to walk around, make (apointed) stops and learn more about the industrial buildings and other areas of the Park.
(2024) new digital platform
The creation of this platform relates to a common need that was "pointing out" during the development of the Park's vision back in 2021 as 41% of the Park's visitors had small or no knowledge about the historic development of the former industial area and 92% wanted to learn more and/or participate in activities and events relared to the Park's history.
The platform's main focus is around visitors knowledge on the area's history with additional information on the park today, activity schedule, live maps, access to the podcast series, etc.
(2024) podcast series
In January 2023 COMM'ON in collaboration with Lipasmata Park premiered the Podcast Series "Labor Park" that presents the history of the former Fertilizer's factory in Drapetsona and the stories of people who worked and lived in the area.
"Labor Park" is a 6 episode audio documentary that sheds light on the history of Fertilizer's Factory, a story full of social battles, defeats and victories, with the city of Drapetsona in Piraeus as a backdrop.
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/Lipasmata park digital PLATFORM/
The second phase (2023) of Fertile Ground focuses in the implementation of specific activities that answer needs and suggestions conserning infastruction and content of the Park. First stop of these process was to create the digital platform lipasmatapark.gr