Art and territory
55 places in the atlas
Art and culture as tools for territorial regeneration and community cohesion, from rural triennials to neighbourhood sociocultural projects.
Japan7
Beppu Projectベップ・プロジェクト
Beppu, Oita · Kyushu
An arts NGO exploring the potential of art to create community in the hot spring city: permanent pieces (ALTERNATIVE-STATE), an Art Fair and Beppu Ar…
VerifiedSee place →Art and territoryProjectEchigo-Tsumari Art Field越後妻有
Tokamachi, Niigata · Chubu
The pioneering territorial art festival across 760 square kilometres of satoyama landscape, with over 200 permanent works in villages, houses and aba…
VerifiedSee place →Art and territorySpaceHajimari Art Centerはじまりの美術館
Inawashiro, Fukushima · Tohoku
A 130-year-old former sake distillery renovated as a small art brut museum with a vocation for social inclusion and community ties.
VerifiedSee place →Art and territorySpaceInujima Art House Project犬島
Isla Inujima, Okayama · Chugoku
Low-rise art pavilions woven into the hamlet and a museum in a former copper refinery.
Partially verifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancyNeighbourhood or villageKitakagaya Creative Village北加賀屋
Osaka · Kansai
A former shipbuilding area on the Kizu river regenerated through art: empty factories and warehouses converted into some 50 studios, galleries and re…
VerifiedSee place →Art and territoryProjectKumamoto Artpolisくまもとアートポリス
Kumamoto · Kyushu
A programme commissioning signature public architecture (Ando, Ito, Sejima) with independent curatorship and workshops between architects and residen…
VerifiedSee place →Spain3
Ateneu Popular 9 Barris
Nou Barris, Barcelona · Catalonia
An asphalt plant occupied by neighbours in 1977 and turned into a community cultural centre devoted to social circus.
VerifiedSee place →Art and territoryProjectBarrios Orquestados
Las Palmas / Tenerife · Canary Islands
String orchestras in peripheral neighbourhoods of the Canary Islands, with families as part of the project: music as a tool for cohesion and neighbou…
VerifiedSee place →Art and territorySpaceHarinera ZGZ
San José, Zaragoza · Aragon
An abandoned industrial flour mill turned into a community culture space governed three ways by the administration, a collective of cultural agents a…
VerifiedSee place →France13
Ateliers Médicis
Clichy-sous-Bois · Île-de-France
A public cultural institution created in 2015 in Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil, the municipalities that symbolised the 2005 riots, to host artist…
Partially verifiedSee place →Participatory urbanismSpaceBase 11/19
Loos-en-Gohelle · Hauts-de-France
A former mine pit closed in 1986 in the town of Loos-en-Gohelle, converted into a reference hub for sustainable development with intensive resident p…
Partially verifiedSee place →Art and territoryProjectEstuaire Nantes<>Saint-Nazaire
Nantes · Pays de la Loire
An artistic route born as a biennial in 2007 along 120 kilometres of the Loire estuary between Nantes and Saint-Nazaire.
Partially verifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancySpaceLa Condition Publique
Roubaix · Hauts-de-France
A former 1904 textile conditioning warehouse, in the heart of a city that lived off cotton and wool, refurbished in 2004 by architect Patrick Bouchai…
VerifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancySpaceLa Friche la Belle de Mai
Marseille · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
A former tobacco factory converted since 1990 by a collective of artists into a large independent cultural complex.
VerifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancySpaceLa Halle Tropisme
Montpellier · Occitanie
A former barracks of the Montpellier Infantry School converted in 2019 into a 10,000-square-metre cultural and business park.
VerifiedSee place →Italy15
Arte Sella
Borgo Valsugana (Trento) · Trentino-Alto Adige
Three friends from Borgo Valsugana created an open-air contemporary art trail in 1986 in the meadows and woods of the Val di Sella, where more than t…
Partially verifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancySpaceBASE Milano
Milán · Lombardia
BASE Milano occupies 12,000 square metres of the former Ansaldo factory, in the Tortona district, following a public competition run by the city coun…
VerifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancySpaceCAOS, Centro Arti Opificio SiriCAOS - Centro per le Arti Opificio Siri
Terni · Umbria
The former Siri chemical factory in Terni, acquired by the city council between 1997 and 2002 and converted since 2009 into a 5,600-square-metre cont…
VerifiedSee place →Art and territorySpaceCittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto
Biella · Piemonte
The artist Michelangelo Pistoletto founded Cittadellarte in 1998 in the former Lanificio Trombetta in Biella, a refurbished textile factory, to posit…
VerifiedSee place →Art and territoryProjectCvtà Street Fest
Civitacampomarano (Campobasso) · Molise
An international urban art festival that since 2016 has brought murals by artists from around the world to the façades of a medieval Molise village e…
VerifiedSee place →Commons and belongingSpaceEx Asilo FilangieriL'Asilo
Nápoles · Campania
A former 16th-century convent and asylum occupied in 2012 by cultural workers during the Naples theatre festival.
VerifiedSee place →Thailand9
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Songkhla · South
Small gallery in two shophouses on Nang Ngam Road, at the heart of Songkhla's old town, with an exhibition room downstairs and an artist residency up…
VerifiedSee place →Art and territorySpaceBangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC)หอศิลปวัฒนธรรมแห่งกรุงเทพมหานคร
Bangkok (Pathum Wan) · Bangkok
A public art centre opened in 2008 at the Pathumwan junction.
Partially verifiedSee place →Art and territoryNeighbourhood or villageCharoenkrung y Talat Noiย่านสร้างสรรค์เจริญกรุง
Bangkok (Bang Rak y Samphanthawong) · Bangkok
A historic riverside neighbourhood along Bangkok's first modern street, declared a creative district by the state after the TCDC design centre moved…
VerifiedSee place →Art and territoryProjectKhon Kaen Manifestoขอนแก่นแมนิเฟสโต้
Khon Kaen · Northeast (Isan)
Grassroots biennial set up in 2018 to decentralise Thai contemporary art from the north-east.
Partially verifiedSee place →Third placeNeighbourhood or villageKudichinชุมชนกุฎีจีน
Bangkok (Thon Buri) · Bangkok
A riverside neighbourhood in Thonburi born after the fall of Ayutthaya in 1767, where Buddhist temples, the Catholic Santa Cruz church of the Portugu…
VerifiedSee place →Commons and belongingNeighbourhood or villageNan, ciudad antigua vivaเมืองเก่าน่าน
Nan · North
Historic centre where residents still live, pray and trade among century-old temples, presented by the public agency DASTA as the country's second li…
Partially verifiedSee place →Laos8
Children's Cultural Centres Networkສູນວັດທະນະທຳເດັກ
Vientiane · Nationwide
A state network of centres where children and teenagers learn traditional dance, music and puppetry, drawing and reading.
VerifiedSee place →Art and territorySpaceFanglao Black Box
Vientiane (Xaysettha) · Vientiane
The venue of the Fanglao company ("listen to Laos"), founded in Vientiane in 2013 and presented as the country's first collective creating and teachi…
Partially verifiedSee place →Art and territoryProjectHouaphanh Silk Promotion Association
Xam Neua · North
In Xam Neua and Xam Tai, the heartland of Lao hand weaving, all Lao-Tai women know how to weave, according to a 2015 ethnography.
Partially verifiedSee place →Art and territorySpaceChildren's Cultural Centre (Luang Prabang)ສູນວັດທະນະທຳເດັກ
Luang Prabang · North
A public centre in the heritage old town where children and teenagers learn traditional dance and music, ipok rod puppetry, drawing and crafts.
VerifiedSee place →Commons and belongingProjectOma Cultural Intellectual Property Rights
Phongsaly · North
The Oma, fewer than 2,000 people in seven villages of Phongsaly, are known for their embroidery.
VerifiedSee place →Civic labs and participationProjectPADETC, Participatory Development Training Centre
Naxaythong (Vientiane) · Nationwide
A Lao training centre in participatory development for young people, teachers and local officials.
VerifiedSee place →Related events See the theme Art and territory →
Confluenze. Camp Abitiamo Lo Stato dei Luoghi, Ferrara 2026
Ferrara · Italy
The network's autumn camp in Ferrara, titled Confluenze and focused on the human and more-than-human communities of hybrid spaces.
See the event →22 to 25 October 2026Third places and tiers-lieuxTEH102 Camp Meeting, SilandroTEH102 Camp Meeting in Silandro / Schlanders
Silandro (Schlanders) · Italy
Autumn Camp Meeting at BASIS Vinschgau Venosta, a social innovation hub in a former barracks in South Tyrol, under the theme 'GRINTA! Under Ground: g…
See the event →29 October 2026Third places and tiers-lieuxFRANCO 2026, tappa di Parma
Parma · Italy
Fourth and final stage, on 29 October at Manzini Off (Parma), on collaboration between regenerated spaces, research and territories.
See the event →What they share: Art works as an excuse and as a method to look again at territories that are emptying out.