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Eye contact: 10 years on the streets| Laimikio efektas: 10 metų gatvėse

4 March 2017 u? :)

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10 years ago Laimikis.lt went to the streets to make series of interviews with the passers-by, the same year we have won the 2nd place in the world-wide Street Clash contest in street photography, and took part in the exhibitions in Paris (Colette gallery) and Berlin (Mittwoch gallery, Wedding). Friendly interaction with passers-by, sharing and urban games have always been the components of Laimikis placemaking activities. Today we went to the street to share an Eye Contact with the Laimikis friends and passers-by :)

Lygiai prieš 10 metų priėjome prie pirmojo laimikio gatvėje, užkalbinome ir pasiūlėme nusifotografuoti. Taip atsirado laimikio efektas – pirmasis akių kontaktas. Tais pačiais metais Vilniaus gatvių laimikiai yra laimėję antrąją vietą pasaulio miestų varžybose Street Clash, o Vilniaus gatvių praeivių nuotraukos buvo eksponuojamos parodose Berlyne ir Paryžiuje. Draugiška sąveika su praeiviais, dalinimasis ir miesto žaidimai visada buvo Laimikio veiklų sudedamosios dalys. Gimtadienio proga šiandien dovanojome praeiviams ir Laimikio draugams akių kontaktą!

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Co-Urbanism: Citizen Participation

Annual meeting of innovative city makers Co-Urbanism run by Laimikis since 2014. It has started from a collaborative project "Citizen Participation in Urban Governance: Tools and Cases", launched in the end of 2014 by Laimikis.lt and Minsk urban platform, which aimed to develop a regional network of NGOs and active citizens, involved into the development of urban spaces and local communities.

Co-urbanism: bendradarbiavimo jungtys mieste - serija kasmetinių renginių, skirta sąveikų tarp skirtingų interesų grupių ir institucijų paieškai, siekiant kartu vystyti bendruomeniškas miesto erdves. Rengiama nuo 2o14 kartu su Minsko urbanistine laboratorija. Kuratorė Lietuvoje: dr. Jekaterina Lavrinec.

Laimikis Networks

• Starting from 2o2o: BSR Hubs for Cultural Planning (FI, PL, LV, LT, DK, DE); • Starting from 2o16: Citizens Lab European network of local actors of change. Growing & ongoing.
• Starting from 2o16: Culturability (Culture + Sustainability), platforms that brings together culture actors from the Baltic Sea Region. Ongoing.
• Starting from 2o14: the Baltic House platform, hosted by Nadbałtyckie Centrum Kultury w Gdańsku / The Baltic House Lab (Gdansk, Poland).

Our Partners / Clients / Services

• Kaunas 2022, ECoC: Kaunas Beast game (opening and following events);
• Kaunas 2022, ECoC: community programme workshops for the communities leaders from Kaunas and Kaunas region neighbourhoods (2019-2020);
• Goethe-Institut Litauen: workshops in mapping the cultural potential at Šalčininkai, Jašiūnai, Tauragė, Marijampolė (2019-2021);
• Engage Liverpool: Urbingo game for Liverpool (2018);
• Cartierul Creativ Carolina: Urbingo Centenar game for Alba Iulia (2017);
• Stirling municipality: Web0 communication platform for Stirling and navigation for the city center at “Urban Ideas Bakery” (2010);

ECF Research & Development Grant

2o15: "Co-Design Workshops: Urban Furniture for Sharing" (aka Open Code Urban Furniture) brings together urban practitioners and active representatives of local neighbourhoods for developing open source design solutions for public spaces. The project is a part of creative cluster, formed with radarq.net & European Alternatives.

Interreg: Baltic Sea Region / Nordic Council of Ministers

• 2019 Jan – 2021 Dec: Urban Cultural Planning (Cultural Planning as a method for urban social innovation). As asociate partners, we cooperate with Vilnius TECH, Faculty of Creative Industries and contribute to the development of the urban games and routes that focuse on the green potential of the courtyards in the post-soviet districts. Also, we start developing methodology for non-formal education in cultural planning.

• 2017 Sept – 2018 Aug: BSR Cultural Planning: “Cultural Planning as a BSR Tool for co-creating collaboration and innovation among citizens and between citizens and authorities, on inclusive sustainable development of city space” (Seed Project). Laimikis conducts participatory research at Visaginas on maping local cultural potential and builds the interconnections between the cultural organizations in Visaginas and with the cultural organisations in BSR.

• 2018 – Nordic Council of Ministers has enabled us to develop a design-based tool for participatory urban research and cooperative development of the visual identity of the place, based on studies of Visaginas. As a set of methods it can be universally applied for studying the visual identity of the places.

Grundtvig / Erasmus+ partnership projects:

• 2o18 Sept-2o21 June: I_Improve: enabling people of Europe sharing stories and experiences. Leader: Intercult. Developed storytelling tool "UPĖ - stories flow" for the communities and active residents who seek to revitalise the river banks and a "Method Roulette" -- a methodology and a tool for cultural innovations that enable organisations to find out their hidden resources and to explore new methods. It helps to define targets, goals, and resources, matching them with the participatory approaches.

• 2o13-2o15: "Inside Views - Fieldwork Methods of Social Anthropology to Promote Civic, Cultural and Intercultural Education". A training session for cultural adn social actors was arranged in Castelo de Vide.

• 2o11-2o13: "InterContexts - Contributions of Civic and Cultural Education in Disadvantaged Local Contexts". Local project: developed a set of communication tools designed for the strengthening of participation in the neighbourhoods [see here]. A short guidebook "Community and neighbourhood development: Informal Communication tools and cases" is published in collaboration with the partners. Recognized as a star project [European shared treasure].

Baltic Audience Links

2o16-2o17: "Baltic Audience Links" is a network project that aims to strengthen the interconnctions between cultural organisations in the Baltic Sea Region. Partners: River//Cities platform, Laimikis.lt, Intercult. Co-financed: the Baltic Sea Unit at Swedish Institute in Stockholm.

Gatvės Laimikis | Vilnius street people

Portraits and talks with passers-by (since 2oo7)
Praeiviai: pokalbiai ir portretai (nuo 2oo7).

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Events [lt/eng]

• 2o18, March 22-24, Espoo/Helsinki: Nordic Urban Laboratory. Jekaterina runs a workshop in urban games.

• 2o18, Feb 15 - Riga, Culturability meeting on Cultural Planning (Poland-Germany-Denmark-Finland-Lithuania-Latvia-Norway).

• 2o18, Jan 28 - Feb 3 - London, Manchester, Belfast: UK study tour "Arts and social inclusion", British Council.

• 2o17, Dec - Jekaterina Lavrinec is awarded with Vilnius Bee sign for the works for Vilnius and its communities. Public award.

• 2o17, Dec 8-17 - Shenzhen (China), Bi-city Biennale for Urbanism and Architecture. Laimikis.lt presents an exhebition "Urban patchwork", devoted to the wooden Šnipiškės.

• 2o17, Dec - Riga, Culturability meeting on Cultural Planning (Poland-Germany-Denmark-Finland-Lithuania-Latvia-Norway)

• 2o17, Sept 17 - School of Citizen Artist at Šančiai Library, Kaunas;

• 2o17, July 5 - 13 / August 29 - Septmeber 2: Urbingo game for Liverpool. Hosted by Engage Liverpool;

• 2o17, June : Culturability: cultural planning & games seminar;

• 2o17, June 8-9: Reaktor: cultural planning workshop, Visaginas;

• 2o17, May 25-28: TEH83: Sharing Communities, ROJC, Pula, Croatia;

• 2o17, May 20-21: Coordinate System, the Urban Art Platform of Eastern Europe, Forum, Berlin;

• 2o17, May 17-20: Baltic Audience Links - "Urban Participation" Seminar & Workshop, hosted by the Baltic Sea Cultural Center, Gdansk;

• 2o17, April 7-8: Co-urbanism, hosted by Laimikis.lt, Vilnius;

• 2o17, March 8-11: CitizensLab meeting in Brussels;

• 2o17, March 1-3: Culturability working group on Cultural planning at Pori, Finland.

• 2o17, Feb 21-23: Conference Audience Links Xchange. J. Lavrinec as a key speaker: presenting the research on Baltic Audience Links. The moderator of the Baltic NGOs session.

• 2o17, Jan 17-22: Urbingo workshop for Cartierul Creativ Carolina, Alba Iulia, Romania (CitizensLab).

• 2o16, Oct 26: Forum "Culture and Sustainable Development", paper: Creativity and social innovation for community development (Jekaterina Lavrinec).

• 2o16, Sept 24-27: Spatial Development Forum, Xtreme Urbanism. St. Petersburg, Russia. Crash-course in DIY urban culture and pannel for the Baltic DIY culture, dr. J. Lavrinec (Laimikis.lt) as one of key-speakers.

• 2o16, June 23-26: Citizens Lab: 12 European cities, 36 neighbourhoods. MitOst e.V., Berlin.

• 2o16, June 16-17: Policy Area Culture, Warsaw

• 2o16, June 10-11: Baltic Sea NGO Forum, Gdansk. Key speaker for the topic "Meaning of the culture for the cooperative urban development".

• 2o16, May 27-30: City Makers Summit, Amsterdam. Laimikis.lt is a City Embassy for Vilnius:)

• 2o16, April: Culturability meeting, hosted by Ars Baltica, Rendsburg‬.

• 2o16, March 30: "Vietos kultūra". Pranešimas: Bendruomeninės kūrybinės iniciatyvos kaip vietovės gaivinimo įrankis. Utena.

• 2o16, March 18: UNESCO: Kultūrų raiškos įvairovė – darnesnės visuomenės link | Diversity of Cultural Expressions, speaker. Vilnius.Convention | Press.

• 2o16, Feb 4-5: City Makers Pre-summit, at De Zwijger, Amsterdam: video. • 2o15, Sept: Interdisciplinary exhibition "City close to the water". Object "Komoda nr 3". The Baltic House Lab exhibition. Gdansk, Poland.

• 2o14, Nov 23-25: the Baltic networks meeting: the Baltic House program. Gdansk, Poland.

• 2o14, Nov 7-8: InsideViews meeting (Life Long Learning Programme) in Liege, Belgium.

• 2o14, Nov 2-3: Caucasus Cultural Initiatives Network's event and conference "Community Art as an Impulse for Intercultural Dialog", Speaker. Tbilisi, Georgia.

• 2o14, Oct 28-29: Baltic urbanists network meeting at Riga (@Goethe-Institut Riga & Urban Institute Riga). Participantion in the round table.

• 2o14, Oct 27: Public discussion "Vilnius: a Public Space?" with the architect R. Palekas, urban anthropologist J. Lavrinec, and Vilnius mayor A. Zuokas at "Inconvenient Films Festival" (Nepatogus kinas), Vilnius.

• 2o14, Oct 23-25: Idea Camp 2014, European Cultural Foundation, Marseille.

• 2o14, Sept 10-15: Contemporary art festival "Survival Kit", Riga. Urban furniture workshop by Jekaterina Lavrinec at Liksnas 26, symposium "Urban Utopia: Art and Culture as a Tool for Exploring and Researching a City" (Latvian Center for Contemporary Art | Urban Institute, Riga) & round table on the Otherness (Fargfabriken).

• 2o14, July 25-27: Summer school "Creative and social practices in public space", St.Petersburg. Tutorship.

• 2o14, June 20-21: Hosting an international Grundtvig partnership seminar-workshop "Participatory and Arts-based Research Approaches: the engaging tactics of collecting and communicating ethnographic data", Vilnius.

• 2o14, June 13-20: Public lecture & training session for the participants of the Kaukas summer school "Reanimation of public space", Kaunas.

• 2o14, April 17-18: A training session and consultancy for regional active citizens groups, NVO's, municipality and elderate workers "Regeneration of public spaces: urban design principles and cases", Utena district. LT: Viešųjų erdvių tvarkymo planavimas: dizaino principų taikymas ir geroji patirtis, Utenos raj., Utenos regiono vietos veiklos grupė.

• 2o14, Feb 21-March 8: Laimikis.lt takes part in running a winter school in Critical Mapping, curating workshops, which focuses on the wooden Šnipiškės.

• 2o14, Jan 28-Feb 2: Visiting InsideViews partners in Paris. Host:

• 2o13 Nov 24-28: Visit to Fargfabriken, Stockholm. The Baltic meeting on art tactics, promoting citizen participation.

• 2o13 Nov 7-8: Presenters at "Social Entrepreneurship for Liveable Cities" Forum, Riga, Latvia

• Starting from Oct 27: Street blogging session by and in Coffee Inn at Pilies str., Vilnius

• 2o13 Oct 26: "Contemporary Diaries": presentations on Street Blog and Cabinets of Curiosities (Cinema Book workshop)

• 2o13 Oct 2-4: Strategies of preserving the old and creating the new in the urban spaces: Cases of the Baltic region Countries (New Urban Topologies, the Center of Contemporary Art and Urbanism Fargfabriken & TOK), Saint Petersburg, Russia

• 2o13 May-October: Street Mosaic workshop, Guided tours, Developing alternative playground, Neighbours' meetings in the wooden neighbourhood of Šnipiškės.

• 2o13 June-August: public debates on the reconstruction of public spaces (Lukiškės sq.) in Vilnius and citizen participation on radio & in press. Micro-protest action.

• 2o13, June 12: Colloquium Vilnense session V: Civil Society? Public Spaces of Memory: presentation "Building Community Spaces in Šnipiškės neighborhood".

• 2o13, May 17-20: Inter-Context meeting in Riga. Laimikis team presented a work in progress in Šnipiškės neighbourhood.

• 2o13, May 3-5: "Išeik į aikštę" (Come to the square!) festival at Cathedral sq., Vilnius.

• 2o13, April 24-28: Laimikis team visits their colleagues in Berlin and explores community gardens initiatives.

• 2o13, Jan 23 - Feb 2: Laimikis team visits their Portuguese colleagues (ICE), who develop a regional project, focused on actualization of historical memory and cultural heritage. Castelo de Vide school, Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Ferreira do Alentejo municipality and several museums and galleries around the region are involved.

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