LuovaLumot Project

CULTURAL WELLBEING - Participatory and Creative Arts Activities

The main objective of the project is to strengthen the independent coping and equality of clients, their families and communities with different cultural backgrounds and at risk of exclusion, in their living environments.

The functional capabilities and functional conditions as well as social capital of clients and communities are strengthened by nature-based participatory and creative arts activities, so that education and employment paths are attainable for participants.

With the help of participatory and creative arts activities, safe culturally and socially diverse functional environments are created for clients and their families/communities, to practice versatile social skills, increase civic skills, get support for themselves and their community.

In the project, tested good practices, methods and operating models are created for implementing participatory and creative art in rehabilitative and integrating work.

Goals

1. Promoting equality and preventing marginalization

2. Wide-ranging well-being, participation and inclusion in target groups (young people in need of special support, immigrants and special groups of social rehabilitation) are promoted with the help of participatory and creative art

3. Strengthens the social rehabilitation and integration of clients and their families/communities with participatory and creative art activities

4. Develop, implement and evaluate participatory and creative art activities in such a way, that it supports the rehabilitation and integration of the clients of the partner organizations in order to strengthen the clients' working life and study skills and transition to working life

5. Implanting and further developing good practices, models and methods developed in the LuovaLumot- project into the working practices of partner organizations.

6. Partners are; Lapland University of Applied Sciences (main implementer), Meriva sr, Pohjantähtiopisto Kannatusyhdistys ry (PTO), Natural Resource Center, Rovala Settlement Association.

Horizont 2023

HorizontART 2023 brought together the three countries of Finland, Norway and Sweden, where artists created art in two buildings, a block of apartments at Röyttäntie 4, Tornio, Finland and the wing of a school at Tornedalsskolan, Haparanda, Sweden. 

Both buildings showed how demolition-designated spaces inspired artists to create site-specific and innovative works of art, graffiti, murals, installations, video art, sculpture and painting. Workshops held by the artists further filled the buildings with a variety of art.  

The LuovaLumot-project participated in the Horizontart event with 150 participants.