Formare Culturală platform invites cultural practitioners, arts professionals, researchers, cultural organization representatives, and heritage institution professionals from Romania and the Republic of Moldova to participate in the third virtual roundtable of the project “Nordic Insights: Addressing Cancel Culture in Public Spaces through Artistic Dialogue and Cultural Innovation.”
Date: January 23, 2026, 3:00 PM Romania/Moldova time / 2:00 PM CET
Format: Online, in English, with Romanian translation
Duration: Approximately 2 hours
About the Event
This roundtable explores concrete ways to implement interventions in contested public spaces, connecting cultural policy frameworks with community-based approaches. We will examine legal mechanisms and policy structures that enable artistic and cultural interventions in controversial public spaces, as well as community engagement strategies in monument recontextualization processes.
The event will be facilitated by Niels Righolt, cultural developer from Denmark (CKI – The Danish Centre for Arts and Interculture), and will feature two expert speakers. Jonas Dahlberg, artist and professor at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, founding director of the interdisciplinary studio Of Public Interest (OPI), will discuss artistic approaches to reimagining common spaces and the politics of space. Laura Panait, urban anthropologist and community developer from Romania, will present community-based approaches to contested urban spaces, drawing on her experience with the “La Terenuri-Spațiu Comun în Mănăștur” project in Cluj-Napoca.
Topics to be addressed include policy frameworks for cultural interventions in contested public spaces, local approaches and their challenges, community-based decision-making models, collaboration between government authorities, cultural organizations and local communities, practical methodologies and action plans for cultural practitioners, as well as impact assessment and sustainability of recontextualization initiatives.
Who Should Attend
We invite cultural practitioners, arts professionals, cultural researchers and artists, representatives of cultural organizations and cultural public institutions, as well as anyone interested in the subject from Romania and the Republic of Moldova.
The event will bring together approximately 20 participants for an exchange of experiences and perspectives.
Registration
To participate in this virtual roundtable, please complete this registration form https://forms.gle/68baefQUU3wLuzUM9 by January 22, 2026. Participation is free thanks to the project’s funder.
The number of participants is limited to facilitate in-depth and interactive discussion. Registered participants will receive the Zoom meeting link via email on January 22, 2026.
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Contact
Oana Nasui
Project Manager
Email: [email protected]
Project details HERE
The project “Nordic Insights: Addressing Cancel Culture in Public Spaces through Artistic Dialogue and Cultural Innovation” is implemented by Formare Culturală platform in Romania. It is funded by Nordic Culture Fund through the Globus Opstart+ program, which supports artistic and cultural projects connecting the Nordic countries with other regions, encouraging long-term collaborations and networks that promote artistic development and experimentation.
Formare Culturală is a private resource platform for cultural and creative industries in Romania, established in 2012, producing cultural debates, trainings, cultural networking sessions, and knowledge transfer projects in the creative and interdisciplinary sector.
Center for Kunst og Interkultur (CKI) is a Danish organization dedicated to audience development, promoting interculturality, and supporting cultural democracy. The organization’s core values are based on the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.
Intercult is an independent production and resource organization based in Stockholm, operating in Sweden and Europe since 1996 as an initiator of collaborative cultural projects and developer of intercultural competencies. The organization functions as a European Resource Centre for Culture.
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