Press Release 6: The WATERFRONTS Toolkit

WATERFRONTS has published the WATERFRONTS Toolkit, a free practical guide that helps artists, cultural organisations, municipalities and community partners apply the project’s arts-led approach to climate resilience in coastal and waterfront communities.

The Toolkit is designed to be transferable: it separates the reusable method from the record of what WATERFRONTS did in practice, so that other organisations can adapt the approach to their own local context rather than simply copy it.

The Toolkit sets out a four-phase method: listening and co-design, building capabilities and facilitating safely, Community Artivism, and the Blue Residency, supported by practical tools including workshop formats, team roles, access and safeguarding checks, evidence-gathering tools and scaling pathways. It closes with ten best practices and a one-page implementation guide offering a 30/60/90-day route for getting started.

It also documents the project in practice, with case studies from Sweden, Greece and Croatia and an archive of the nine artworks produced during the project, presented as examples of the method rather than as products to reproduce.

The Toolkit is free to share and adapt for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) licence, with appropriate credit and under the same terms.

The Toolkit is one of the project’s main legacies, intended to help transfer the WATERFRONTS approach to other European waterfronts facing similar pressures from climate change.

Find out more:  Deliverable 4.1 WATERFRONTS Toolkit

Media enquiries

For interviews and images, please contact the WATERFRONTS project team via https://www.waterfronts.site/contact. Images are available on request.