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Collaborative Culture Through Art

In a world dominated by technological expressionism, the role of craftsmanship and traditional manual skills has been somewhat relegated to the background.... Let's go back to the primordial.


I, CULTURE serves as both a flagship project and the catchphrase for the cultural programme of the 2011 Polish Presidency of the EU Council propelled by the initiative of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute


The recently concluded initiative saw over 260 volunteers across 12 capitals all over the world hold creative workshops that posed fundamental questions as to the role of crafts and manual skills in contemporary civilisation where technological development has somewhat overshadowed more traditional forms of expression. Fashion designer and artist Monika Jakubiak was at the helm of the project which aimed at meeting with various artists, hearing their ideas relating to exhibitions and projects in their country of residence and helping turn these ideas into reality through dialogue and creative exchange.


The I, CULTURE Contemporary Craft project aims to create an awareness of each person's relationship and active engagement in culture, especially those who do not work in any artistic profession. Over the 6-month term of the Polish Presidency of the project, participants from the 12 different cities (Berlin, Brussels, Kiev, Copehnhagen, London, Madrid, Minsk, Moscow, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo and Warsaw) created each individual square of this puzzle, both symbolically in the form of a textile mosaic spelliing out the I, CULTURE logo, where each city involved in the project constituted part of the logo, and practically, through the involvement of different cities in creative workshops.


Last weekend saw I, CULTURE visit Copenhagen for the grand finale of the project, held at Den Frie udstillingsbygning by Østerport station.

Click here to visit I, CULTURE'S official webpage


Promo video from I, CULTURE Warsaw