British Council is proud to be part of Zoöp Connections: New Networks for the Living. This new EUNIC Netherlands project will create regenerative relationships in the European cultural field, starting with five mini-residencies in the Netherlands.
Zoöp Connections is designed to spark regenerative relationships and integrate more-than-human voices into our awareness with the larger goal of taking climate action.
Biodiversity loss, soil degradation and societal polarization on environmental issues in the Netherlands show us that ecosystems of all kinds are degrading, with some on the point of collapsing. Climate action and innovative ecological governance are needed at scale to regenerate these systems. Propelled by this purpose, Zoöp Connections creates opportunities for European practitioners—artists, ecologists, architects, anthropologists, designers, and community organizers—to engage with five pioneering cultural organisations in the Netherlands. Through the Zoöp model, participants will explore how principles of ecological regeneration and co-governance with non-human entities can show cultural organisations’ role in this larger transformation.
Who’s connecting?
Initiated by EUNIC Netherlands and coordinated by DutchCulture and Nieuwe Instituut in collaboration with the Zoönomic Institute, five EUNIC members (European cultural institutions) will invite a creative climate professional to the Netherlands to stay for at least a week of focused exchange at a local Zoöp-partner, all of which are Dutch cultural organisations committed to ecological and social regeneration. These are the duos:
- Zoöp Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen and British Council Netherlands
- Zoöp Stichting Bodemzicht/’t Gagel and Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond,
- Zoöp De Ceuvel and Goethe-Institut Niederlande
- Zoöp Creative Coding Utrecht Instituto Cervantes Utrecht
- Zoöp Nieuwe Instituut and Institut français NL
