Also this year, Creaa, a creative enterprise supported by Friuli Innovazione, promotes the LaRU call: 2018 Urban Regeneration Laboratory.
The competition aimed at artists active in Italy, of all ages and disciplines, provides for the design of participatory workshops. The free registrations are open until October 25: the documents to participate in the announcement can be downloaded, both in Italian and in English, at http://bit.ly/bandoLARU2018.

The selected artists will be asked to develop a workshop on the theme "Art and Food", lasting one day, which will take place between December 2018 and February 2019, in the Municipalities of Trieste, Muggia, Marano Lagunare, Udine, Pordenone and Tolmezzo.

Starting from the results of the preliminary mapping carried out on the areas concerned, the artists will interpret creatively the practices related to food and urbanization, to involve citizens in the reconsideration project of urban spaces. The aim of the Laboratory is to contribute to making cities more inclusive, healthy, participated and responsible for the needs of citizens.
The third edition of LaRU wants to involve in particular the inhabitants of the suburbs and above all of the marginal or empty urban areas, in processes of physical and cultural requalification and to develop the processes that can improve the relationship between city and territory.

A jury will select the workshops, composed by Nadia Vedova, Kallipolis project manager, Elena Tammaro, Creaa snc's Art Director, Elena Cantori, curator and gallery owner, Paola Colombo, curator of the Near / Far festival, Rachele D'Osualdo, cultural manager, Manuela Farinosi, Uniud professor of Sociology of cultural and communicative processes.

The LaRU call, co-funded by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, includes the participation of Kallipolis, a social promotion association in Trieste, which promotes livability in different types of urban environments, and Creaa, a creative company from Udine, which proposes innovation through the visual arts and deals with communication and cultural events.
Founded in 2013 and supported by the "Space for Ideas" competition promoted by the Friuli Innovazione certified business incubator, Creaa continues its path of creative success and this year has positioned itself at the top of the ranking of the regional call for tenders dedicated to Cultural, Creative and Tourist Enterprises with the project "Artistic interventions in complex organizations, from the model to the commercialization." And it has chosen again Friuli Innovazione for the path of Acceleration and business consolidation that this foresees.

Involved for the second consecutive year in the design of LaRU, Creaa was recently involved in the design of the event "The sea at ... Palmanova", organized by the Consortium of Social Cooperatives The Mosaic to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Basaglia Law. The initiative, which has registered 1400 appearances, is part of a path of creative continuity, a concrete manifestation of the potential of art and creativity that benefits the territory: an increasingly central theme for individual and collective well-being.

Visit the Creaa website to discover all the initiates.