Lunchtime Session: Co-Creating Cities Through Participatory Art & Public Space Practice

This interactive Lunchtime Session introduces the PRAHO! project, a Prague-based cultural initiative working at the intersection of participatory art, architecture, education, and public space.

Rather than a traditional presentation, the session is conceived as a participatory exchange. The PRAHO! team will share who they are, how they work, and why they believe that small-scale, community-rooted artistic interventions can meaningfully influence how cities are experienced, shaped, and cared for.

Drawing on concrete examples from Prague and their growing international collaborations, the lunchtime session will explore:

• how participatory art can foster inclusion, dialogue, and civic imagination
• how cultural initiatives can move between strong local anchoring and European cooperation
• how care, listening, and co-creation function as core methods in public space practice

The session invites reflection, questions, and shared perspectives from participants and is intended as an open conversation with cultural practitioners, organisations, and networks interested in participatory approaches, cultural democracy, and translocal collaboration.