Final Activity Report Summary - NETWORKED CULTURES (Networked cultures: negotiating cultural difference in contested spaces)
To this end, the research has brought together self-organised networked practices which question and destabilise traditional spatial patterns and forms of knowledge production with the work of expanded art and architectural practices interested in social and cultural change. It has carried out investigations into transient and experimental project platforms which allow for a multi-inhabitation of territories and narratives across cultural boundaries. Such networked art, architectural and activist practices were invited to list their projects in an online database to share their experiences and to develop new knowledge together. This collaboration has established ecology of communication and networking beyond national borders and offers an interactive working environment and growing archive (including conversations with networking practitioners, video footage and 5 000+ photographs of contested urban spaces in Europe) for research into emerging networked cultures. Collaborative knowledge of this kind helps to empower cross-cultural initiatives and to put into practice models of networking between cultures that facilitate a more inclusive society. Based on the immense intellectual productivity of these interactions, the research has developed new critical frameworks ('relational theories') around the potential of network creativity in contemporary knowledge based societies and cross-cultural agency. These frameworks have been disseminated in various analogue and digital media and have been put forward for discussion in networked communities and numerous venues open to the general public.