ACT UP! Active Citizenship throughTheatre for Urban Politics

-promote civic engagement and participation in response to the climate crises and associated social impacts; -critically explore how citizenship can be “performed” in new ways focusing specifical...

-promote civic engagement and participation in response to the climate crises and associated social impacts; -critically explore how citizenship can be “performed” in new ways focusing specifically on urban space as a site for democratic expression and negotiation of common values; -foster our sense of common values and common humanity while negotiating the many different perspectives, values, interests and tensions that condition the fight against climate change in urban arenas.

ACT UP! uses innovative theatre-based educational methods within a transdisciplinary context and develops and implements a theoretical framework and practical toolbox, which together constitute the ACT UP! methodology, in the cities of Groningen, Viljandi, Narva, Oslo and Cape Town. Urban spaces in these cities provide key learning arenas, moving educational approaches from the academy into the streets, developing capacity for navigating urban climate politics ‘on the ground'.

The project delivers the Act UP! methodology for promoting active citizenship in urban climate politics. The methodology is captured in a piloted and tested open access pedagogical toolbox of theatre-based intervention design, that can be adapted to other (local) contexts, and implemented in urban interventions. In addition an impact measurement tool of the methodology and its resulting interventions, including guidelines for use is delivered.