Date : Sep 26, 2025

Time : 15:00 - 17:00 PM

A territory is never just a geographical space—it is a social construct shaped by the relationships between land and the communities that inhabit it. Today’s ecological and social challenges compel us to rethink territorial practices as guiding principles for transformation, collaboration, and sustainability across environmental, economic, cultural, and social dimensions. Within this framework, culture emerges as the “fourth dimension” of sustainability, essential to cultivating collective consciousness and forging networks of solidarity, responsibility, and innovation. These networks, rooted in the values and heritage of specific places, hold the potential to (re)generate ecosystems of belonging and to spark new cultural imaginaries.

Art, as a living expression of culture, plays a vital role in this process. Through its capacity for creation, critique, and experimentation, art can strengthen social cohesion and help activate new sustainable communities, forging resilient relationships with the territories they inhabit. Building on this perspective, the roundtable seeks to explore how sustainable systems of collaboration can be developed among institutions, communities, public entities, businesses, artists, researchers, and professionals—always with culture as the connective tissue. The conversation will reflect on how networks of innovation might emerge, while questioning existing organizational, governance, and co-design models, and redefining the role of cultural institutions within these processes of territorial sustainability.