Atlas: A collection of maps, mainly geographical, presented in book or notebook form.

This project arises as a continuation of the research carried out thanks to the 2019 Ribera Grant awarded by Irun City Council, which was entitled "Emotional Cartography of Bidasoa".

The main idea revolves around the decision to carry out a practical mediation exercise on the contents researched. Not only to highlight different characters, events, hobbies, etc., but also to work on it in a transversal way with different artistic disciplines.

We are sure that research of these characteristics that deals with interculturality, in a border context at the moment we are living in, provides more plural results in the revision of many aspects of the historical memory of this territory. "In a time of globalisation, the most revealing object of study, the most questioning of ethnocentric or disciplinary pseudo-certainties is interculturality" (Canclini, 2006: 101). Interculturality is the tool with which we have to work for integration. Dialogue, in order to understand and accept our diversity as cultural richness and intangible world heritage, is the basis of our coexistence.

We have called it an atlas, because it presents a series of educational booklets combined with the work of the illustrator Elena Odriozola, highlighting relevant social aspects. Ten small notebooks that tell stories of a geographical space written in an elegant way by María José Noain Maura and with a language that is accessible to all kinds of audiences.

Texts: Maria José Noain Maura
Coordination and layout: Helga Massetani Piemonte
Ilustrations: Elena Odriozola
Traduction: Joxan Elosegi
LG D 00104-2022
2022

Bibliography

In the year 2021 the programme FUTURA: herramientas para una cultura en movimiento was created by the CCEBA as a scaffolding in movement to accompany, in the framework of a complex and unstable context crossed by the pandemic, cultural managers of the coordination and management teams of cultural facilities throughout the country and the region in the challenge of designing and implementing sustainable strategies for the development and loyalty of audiences, audiences and communities within their organisations.

Aimed at artistic residencies in Argentina and independent managers.

This new edition proposes, through imagination and the formulation of concrete proposals and alternatives for the future, to address new challenges from the perspective of cultural management in artistic residencies, such as the conversation between culture and sustainability, care for the planet and the environmental agenda, as well as continuing Futura's spirit of promoting the integration and associativity of different actors, generating sophisticated and sustainable cultural networks and communities.

Bitamine Faktoria will teach MODULE 4 (Wednesday 11 May 2022)
Sustainable horizon: coordinates and tools for cultural projects from an inclusive perspective.
By Helga Massetani Piemonte- Bitamine Faktoria (Spain)

The MODULE presents a series of urgent themes to be taken into account in our nearest horizon to be reflected in all our cultural projects. Such is the case of sustainability, inclusion and gender perspective. Conceived and designed from a practical dynamic, the topics will be approached from case studies, both our own and from other structures, and finally, a practical joint work will be proposed on the design of cultural projects for the "new normality".

The contents will be worked on dynamically through case studies, practical examples and small exercises. These will focus on the knowledge of the Sustainable Development Goals and how to apply them, the detection of the carbon footprint in our sector, sustainability directly related to resources (economic, human, material). But other transversal aspects will also be highlighted, such as the gender perspective and historical memory.

Taking into account all these concepts and based on research techniques and methodologies, we will start a design process on a prototype framework project, which can be adaptable to the needs of the different disciplines and themes that the participants will deal with in the future.

Objectives:
● To introduce participants to general aspects of sustainability.
● To provide a guide for project design.

FRONTIÈRE - Cross-border artistic practices, an event in collaboration with the Montreal artists' centre DARE-DARE and Bitamine Faktoria. This meeting takes place on the occasion of the launch of the publication Frontière, which reviews TOPO's thematic programming for 2019-2022. Helga Massetani, from Bitamine Faktoria, will present the project Atlas Emocional del Bidasoa. Sylvie Cotton, from DARE-DARE, will present the Satellite project and its publication.

PROJECTS.

FRONTIÈRE by TOPO.
Under the theme of the frontier, TOPO has created a cycle of exhibitions and online projects from 2019 to 2022. Rooted in human history and still very current, the theme brings together several issues raised by TOPO, political as well as social and technological.

The Frontier programme includes three thematic cycles with three female authors and art historians: Nuria Carton de Grammont, Paule Mackrous and Mirna Abiad-Boyadjian. To enrich the reflection, four other specialists address the notion of the border more broadly according to different approaches linked to their field of research: Ricard Zapata Barrero (politics), Chantal Pontbriand (aesthetics), Jean-Dominique Leccia (psychiatry) and David Jhave Johnston (technology).

The paper publication, a map that traces the works of the 10 artists proposed by TOPO in the framework of the programme, is expanded on the web with essays and multimedia content (essays, videos and podcasts).

SATELLITE by DARE-DARE.
"This publication traces the first trajectories of a programme of cross-border artistic explorations initiated in 2011 by the artist-run centre DARE-DARE as a satellite of its home territory in Montreal. More than just a retrospective visual overview and a presentation of works produced in three very different urban contexts (Detroit, Tijuana, Mexico City), the book proposes a series of recent observations of the artists and host partners to relive their vivid memories, retrace the path of thought and experience, reveal the imprint on creative practice and intellectual reflection, or even the repercussions on career or artistic mission."

Extract from the essay by Martin Dufrasne, coordinator of the SATELLITE project and coordinator of DARE-DARE programming

Bitamine Faktoria's Emotional Atlas of Bidasoa.
This publication is the continuation of the research carried out in 2019 within the project "Emotional cartography of Bidasoa". It is a series of notebooks accompanied by the work of the illustrator Elena Odriozola, which highlight significant social aspects. These ten fascicles tell the stories of a geographical area - that of the river Bidasoa - elegantly written by María José Noain Maura in a language accessible to all audiences.

Helga Massetani's visit is possible thanks to the support of the Etxepare Institute and the Ministère des Relations internationales du Québec, within the framework of the cultural cooperation agreement between Québec and Euskadi.

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