Concept
The project connects climate awareness with cultural experience, shifting the focus from passive learning to active participation and agency. It brings together cultural history, environmental perception, and regenerative thinking to transform eco-anxiety into meaningful engagement. At its core, the project positions museums not only as knowledge institutions but as democratic platforms for co-creation and societal change.

Activities & Methods
The project is built on co-creative and research-based processes, including:

• participatory workshops with young people
• exploration of local landscapes and cultural histories
• sensory and immersive practices (observing, interpreting environments)
• international collaboration and exchange across partner countries
• masterclasses on regenerative learning and co-creation

A pre-study phase maps youth motivations, participation patterns, and conditions for engagement (trust, access, agency), ensuring that activities are grounded in real-life contexts.

Approach of the project

• arts-based and experiential learning
• collaborative ethnography / youth insight research
• regenerative and systems thinking
• cross-cultural exchange

Importantly, the project emphasises emotional engagement as a driver of action, turning reflection into collective practices and visible contributions.

Lithuanian case: biodiveristy learning

In Lithuania, the project is implemented in the park of Markučiai Manor, where schoolchildren engage with the site as a living ecosystem. Through guided exploration, they investigate the park’s biodiversity while developing sensory awareness and environmental understanding.

The programme introduces place-based environmental education, combining exploration of local flora, fungi, and landscape elements with sensory observation and collective reflection. It combines arts-based and participatory methods: participants develop basic acting skills, create masks inspired by non-human inhabitants, and apply the Council of All Beings method. By speaking from the perspective of the park’s dwellers (such as trees, stones, or fungi) they explore alternative viewpoints, practice more-than-human storytelling and cultivate empathy towards the environment and its actors.

Outcomes

• scalable tools and methods for cultural institutions (especially museums);
• new formats for youth engagement in climate action;
• strengthened international collaboration between cultural actors;
• cross-disciplinary frameworks linking culture, nature, and sustainability.
  It also measures impact through changes in participants’ awareness, attitudes, and sense of agency.

Impact

Climate. Culture. Exchange contributes to:
– activating young people as co-creators of sustainable futures;
– repositioning museums as active civic actors;
– connecting local cultural landscapes with global climate challenges;
– building long-term capacity for participatory, climate-oriented cultural programming

Partners

• Lead partner: Mark – Museum of a New Danish History (Denmark)
• Earthways (Denmark)
• Eduards Veidenbaums Memorial Museum (Latvia)
• Markučiai Manor Museum [Vilnius City Museum, LT)
• Save the Children Lithuania (Lithuania | International)
• Laimikis.lt – Urban Games and Research LAB (Lithuania)
• In a partnership with the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS)

Project funder: The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and The Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces with national partners as co-funders.

Implementation period: 2024–2026 

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Format: While many Lithuanian cities copy the brilliant installation “I am Amsterdam”, we created a solution that empowers residents not only to bring visibility to their neighbourhoods, but also to arrange and rearrange spaces for community meetings. This solution is especially instrumental in open spaces that lack comfortable furniture, as letters create temporal structures, turning space into a place.

Characteristics: mobile, light yet stable, suitable for sitting and jumping on. Check our Typographic Placemaking Set at Behance. For different environments, we create distinct configurations, making each set and place unique.

Case: The very 1st letter set we produced for the historic district of Šnipiškės in 2013. The task was to bring visibility to the historic district, which had remained ignored for decades and lacked basic infrastructure and public spaces. Check our first test of the Urban Letters in Šnipiškės 2013 and during Neighbours Picnics in Šnipiškės 2013. For other

Concept: Jekaterina Lavrinec + Julius Narkūnas (Laimikis.lt). Font design: Tomas Umbrasas.

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Format: Training in Creative Cartography and Storytelling for schoolchildren;
Additionally, a special cartography tool (game) can be designed. It is instrumental for integrating creative cartography and storytelling into schools’ or gymnasium’s modules. The design of the tool requires 2 extra months.
Skills developed: desk research, field research, arranging and conducting interviews, documentation, visualisation, cartography, storytelling.
Training period: from two weeks to 2 months.
Age groups: starting from 6th grade.

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Case.  Title: Discover Pabradė – a learning module, workshops and a cartography tool for accumulating and sharing knowledge about the town of Pabradė.

Client: Pabradė “Ryto” Gymnasium | TŪM – National Education Progress Program “Millenium Schools” (Nacionalinė šviešimo pažangos programa Tūkstantmečio mokyklos).

Target / Audience: 7th and 8th-grade schoolchildren.

Challenge/task: To develop a learning module and a game tool involving arts and music school teachers (informatics and Lithuanian language as additional subjects) and use the outcomes of schoolchildren’s activities with the history teacher. Previously, schoolchildren attended and learned about various regional institutions with their teachers. They also performed small research on the historical objects in the town. However, this gathered knowledge is fragmented (as every small group focused on its object) and needs a tool for activation. For this task, we only had 3.5 months and very limited resources.

Solution:
The learning module “Become Pabradė’s Cartographer and Guide!” consists of:
1. Training for the teachers, exploring the possibilities to connect the subjects of the formal school program to the non-formal “Discover Pabradė” activities. It embraces such topics and tasks as “Discovering Pabradė’s soundscape. Exploring the use of natural and industrial soundscape in composing”, “Pabradė’s textures and ornaments. Exploring artistic techniques”, “Storytelling around Pabradė’s elements”, and “Coding the discoveries about Pabradė”.  The modules’ tasks and topics were developed by dr. Jekaterina Lavrinec.

2. Training for schoolchildren “Pabradės’ Identity: Creative Maps, Games and Visual Codes, which consists of short lectures, creative workshops, and individual and group tasks. During lectures, we:
– overviewed the characteristics essential for the city’s identity and how these characteristics can be turned into games;
– introduced the techniques of creative mapping;
– discussed the visual coding techniques for the city’s essential elements.
During the 1st workshop, schoolchildren mapped places, objects, activities, sounds and other elements essential to the identity of Pabradė. During the 2nd workshop, schoolchildren learned how to turn these elements into visual signs.
During the independent task “Become Pabradė’s guide”, schoolchildren researched picked objects and places of Pabradė, creating profiles of those places.

3. Laimikis.lt team analysed the materials collected during the workshops and the outcomes of the independent tasks and developed a matrix for the cartography of Pabradė based on these materials. The invited designers contributed to the design of the final product. As a rule, in our practice, we seek long-term sustainable results. Despite the limited resources, we produced a tangible product which will serve generations of schoolchildren.

4. Final workshop with Pabradė’s “Ryto” Gymnasium Schoolchildren consisted of two parts:
– Preparing Pabradė’s profiles (puzzle figures) for the mapping game.
– Testing the mapping game by connecting various Pabradė’s places through sounds, architecture, nature, history, culture, activities, moods, etc.
– Testing the mapping game nr. 2 – “Reveal the Location!”, during which the players try to guess the hidden Pabradė’s place through its characteristics and facts about it. We tested it with three classes, which allowed us to evaluate the result :)

After our part was finished, the schoolchildren arranged the conference, during which the participants presented the mapping process and their findings from their own perspective – coordinated by Zita Daškevičienė. Here is the presentation focused on the cartography experience by schoolchildren E. Vonsovič & J. Bulyčeva.

A cartography matrix (set) consists of :
– Magnet board with the matrix and legend for the cartography
– Set of 6 types of amazingly looking magnet cards: Pabradė’s Places, What this place is interesting for, Pabradė’s Sounds, Pabradė’s Activities, Pabradė’s Colours, Pabradė’s Moods.
– Set of more miniature puzzle figures, each representing a profile of a specific Pabradė’s place, including sounds, activities, colours, moods, and the parameter “what place is interesting for”.

Team:
concept – Julius Narkūnas + Jekaterina Lavrinec;
designers – Vytautas Morkvėnas and Ramūnas Vereckis.

Year: 2024 December – 2025 March

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• More on WoodiSH project.
• WoodiSH web-site.

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While building the program, we combined the perspectives of the residents and cooperatives with the perspectives of education and culture institutions (universities and museums), heritage specialists, and municipalities.

The topics covered during the 1st seminar: How do communities manage renovating the wooden heritage and building new wooden houses? How is a decision-making process arranged in smaller and bigger communities? What do community members contribute to their neighbourhood? How do cooperatives get and manage financial resources to keep wooden houses in good condition and to develop the neighbourhood?

The topics covered during the 2nd seminar are: What programs are dedicated to craftsmenship and maintaining the wooden houses in Norway, Finland, and Lithuania? What adjustments are needed to make these programs more effective from the perspective of the residents? What support do museums, universities, municipalities, and national centers provide to communities living in the heritage sites? How do communities build networks with institutions and specialists from different fields?

Participating organisations: Neighbourhood cooperative at Vikkari in Pori, Forest Management Institute, Satakunta Museum, Landscape Studies group at the University of Turku, NTNU Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences, Markučiai Manor Museum, Vilnius Municipality, Svartlamon cooperative in Trondheim, Fixus Mobili, Laboratory for Urban Games and Research “Laimikis.lt”.
Participating countries: Finland (Pori), Norway (Trondheim), Lithuania (Vilnius).

We seek to include more cases and practical knowledge in the pool of examined practices!
Please contact for further cooperation curator of the research and exchange programs dr. Jekaterina Lavrinec: note her name.surname@gmail.com

PROGRAM, NOVEMBER 21, 15.30 – 18.00
Location: Antakalnis City Laboratory
Seminar “Decision-making and self-management in urban communities and cooperatives. Svartlamon and Viikkari cases“. Presenters: Guro Ophelia Hell Sletnes, representative of the Svartlamon cooperative in Trondheim and Anssi Riihiaho, chairman of the housing cooperative in Viikkari wooden district, Pori. Moderator: Jekaterina Lavrinec, Laimikis.lt

Study tour and discussion: “Circular Skills in Managing Community Spaces“. Goda Sosnovskienė (Antakalnis City Lab / Miesto laboratorija) will present circular practices and activities at the Antakalnis Lab case during this study tour. A discussion about circular skills in urban communities will follow it.

NOVEMBER 22, 14.oo – 17.oo
Location: Museums of Urban Wooden Architecture
Seminar “Taking care of the Wooden Heritage: Maintenance, Restoration and Cultural Education”
Presenters and disputants: Viltė Janušauskaitė, Emilija Armakauskaitė, Rolandas Juodgudis (Fixus Mobilis team), Liisa Nummelin (Satakunta Museum), dr.prof. Harald B. Høgseth (NTNU), dr.Oleksandra Nenko (Turku University), Vigdis Dagsdatter Øyen, Anssi Riihiaho (Viikari cooperative | Forest management institute); Guro Ophelia Hell Sletnes (Svartlamon cooperative); Živilė Ratavičiūtė (Vilnius municipality, Department of Cultural Heritage protection); Darius Rudzinskas (Žvėrynas house owners cooperative, co-author of the “Žvėrynas wooden house windows, trim and siding catalog”), Marija Konickaja (Markučiai Manor Museum, collections curator), Viktorija Smalsytė & Vilius Mateika (MMMAM team), Vaiva Aglinskas (invited researcher at Laimikis.lt), dr. Jekaterina Lavrinec (Laboratory for Urban Games and Research “Laimikis.lt”).

Check for the previous Co-urbanism materials:
Co-urbanism 2020 • Co-urbanism 2019 • Co-urbanism 2018 • Co-urbanism 2017 • Co-urbanism 2016 • Co-urbanism 2015: catalogue • Co-urbanism 2015: seminars, discussions, workshops

Co-urbanism brings together urban practitioners, researchers, community leaders, community artists, and policymakers to share methods and practices in the cooperative cultural development of urban spaces.  In 2024, a Co-urbanism seminar was arranged under the WoodiSH research project, which studies circular skills of the inhabitants of the historic wooden neighbourhoods.

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Title: Zero Hero (educational game for schoolchildren, developing circular skills).

Client: Antakalnis City Lab. This organisation promotes zero waste movement involving various age groups.

Challenge/task: How can circular skills and recycling become entertaining for schoolchildren? A task was to develop a learning format that educators could use with groups of children (7-11 years).

Solution: A set of play cards to play in teams led by the educators. We divided the topic of zero-waste into five fields — recycling, composting, plants, renewable energy, and cooperation with neighbours — and developed subtopics and questions for each field. The educational game ZERO HERO sparks a conversation between school kids and teachers about ecology, a no-waste lifestyle, and a conscious, nature-friendly environment. Because of the illustrations (by Agnė Lasinskienė), the subtopics have a wide range of interpretations.

A game set consists of 5 topic cards and 50 cards, most of which fit several zero-waste topics. It also includes a list of orientational questions for educators.

How it works:

1. Children are divided into teams of 3 to 6 players;
2. Cards are divided equally among players. Depending on the number of players, everyone gets 1-5 cards. Players in teams help each other. The goal is to eliminate all the cards in the team.
3. The game master (educator) picks one of five topic cards and, asks open questions concerning the picked topics, and opens the topic on the table with a short introduction. Then, the game master asks a question about the topic (e.g., Can you grow veggies in the city? Where can you do that? etc.).
4. Players should find and give the card that corresponds with the answer to this question or topic. Players should explain each card – why does one think it answers the question?
5. If the game master approves the answer, the card is thrown away.
6. The team that gets rid of all the cards first is the winner – ZERO HERO.

Instructions in Lithuanian can be found in Miesto laboratorija website.

Team:
concept – Julius Narkūnas + Jekaterina Lavrinec;
beautifully detailed illustrations – Agnė Lasinskienė.

Year: 2021

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Project goal:

The project aims to create a street art network between Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. A network will benefit street art operators and street artists in Finland and the Baltics by establishing new professional relationships. In addition, a cooperative network will also create job opportunities for street artists, and enrich regional street culture festivals by introducing new artists and creators.

Partners: Helsinki Urban Art (lead and manager of the project); Street art festival “Stencibility” (Tartu / Estonia), Laboratory for Urban Games and Research NGO “Laimikis.Lt” (Lithuania), Street artist Dainis Rudens (Latvia).

Working formats:
– Face-to-face meetings
– Free-form seminars
– Street art jams
– Guided tours

Project locations:
– Riga, Latvia
– Helsinki, Finland
– Vilnius, Lithuania
– Tartu, Estonia (European Capital of Culture 2024)

Outcomes:
Input into the local art scene through festivals and jams.
Stronger network of young street artists, active in the Baltic Sea Region,

Supported by: Nordic Council of Ministers (Program: Nordic Culture Point)
Year: 2024

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This game helps explore and learn about cultural heritage in a playful way: we developed Urbingo as a matrix for collecting and arranging neighbourhood stories and changing material culture, turning it into an actively used archive. It is a tool for activating interest in rapidly changing neighbourhoods and their stories, and for encouraging citizen participation in gathering valuable empirical data on the material culture of these neighbourhoods. Like many card games, Urbingo is an effective non-formal learning method.

Where to play: We have developed several versions of the Urbingo game for various sites. While the game exists as an analogy, we are in the process of launching the online platform.

• Urbingo Šnipiškės: the 1st edition of Urbingo is dedicated to the wooden neighbourhood of Šnipiškės (Vilnius), which faces redevelopment pressure and is experiencing rapid change. Check for more.
• Urbingo Alba Iulia
• Urbingo Liverpool
• other cities, towns and districts

Media and dissemination:
• Behance: Urbingo Šnipiškės
• Facebook: UrbinGo (GoUrbinGo)
• Contacts: Jekaterina.Lavrinec()gmail.com, Julius()laimikis.lt

All rights reserved. The URBINGO game was created and patented by Laimikis.lt team Jekaterina Lavrinec + Julius Narkūnas in cooperation with the designer Tomas Umbrasas.
Year: active from 2015.

Žaidimas-gidas URBINGO skirtas aktyviam miesto rajonų pažinimui, ieškant smagių vaizdų ir vertingos informacijos apie savo ir kitus rajonus. Žaidimas kviečia tapti kaimynijų paslapčių atradėjais ir leistis į naujų vietų ir patirčių medžioklę. Įdomūs faktai ir užduotys paskatins atidžiau dairytis paslėptų detalių net gerai pažįstamame rajone. Žaisti smagiausia 2-5 žmonių grupėje, bet gali būti naudojamas ir individualiai – kaip ir gidas, kurio pagrindą sudaro teksto kortelės.

Žaidimą sudaro:
• Žemėlapis. Jis aprėpia visą žaidimo-gido teritoriją. Žemėlapyje esantys taškai žpildomi žaidimo metu. Kiekvienas taškas turi jam skirtą vaizdo ir teksto kortelę ir numerį.
• Vaizdo kortelės. Tai besikeičiančio rajono foto albumas ir kvietimas aplankyti rajono vietas. Kiekvienai vaizdo kortelei skirtas savo taškas rajono žemėlapyje. Atsitiktiniu būdu ištraukę kelias vaizdo korteles, gaunate vis naujus maršrutus.
• Teksto kortelės. Jose pateikiami faktai apie rajono istoriją, vietas ir elementus. Kiekviena teksto kortelė atitinka vieną ar kelias vaizdo korteles ir sugrupuoja jas pagal temas (pvz. „Mediniai sandėliukai“). Ieškokite teksto kortelių iliustracijų pagal numerius, nurodytus vaizdo kortelėse.

Fiksuok rajono pokyčius

URBINGO unikalumą sudaro ne tik tai, kad jis derina savyje orientacinį žaidimą ir gidą, bet ir tai, jog jis yra skirtas besikeičiantiems miestų rajonams. Pirmasis URBINGO leidimas skirtas medinėms Šnipiškėms. Šis rajonas pasirinktas neatsitiktinai: medinės Šnipiškės išgyvena intensyvių pokyčių periodą, ir nykstanti 19 a. rajono architektūra kartu su savitu gyvenimo būdu ir unikaliais architektūriniais kontrastais, verti plačios publikos dėmesio. Šio žaidimo-gido tikslas – paskatinti aktyvų miestiečių dalyvavimą, ieškant vertingos informacijos apie savo rajoną. Tai yra įrankis, kuris leidžia paversti vizualinę ir tekstinę informaciją apie rajonus aktyviai naudojamu ir nuolat pildomu archyvu.

Prie URBINGO žemėlapio ir kortelių sudarymo galite prisidėti kiekvienas. Jei žinote su šiuo ir kitais rajonais susijusių istorijų ar legendų, turite puikių nuotraukų ir archyvinių vaizdų – pasidalinkite su mumis, ir tokiu būdu prisidėkite prie savo rajonui skirto URBINGO žaidimo-gido vystymo. Savo idėjomis, nuotraukomis ir rajonų istorijomis dalinkitės URBINGO facebook puslapyje.

Kaimynų diena ir Kultūros naktys: Urbingo testavimas ir premjera

Šnipiškiečiai Urbingo žaidimą išbandė jau trejus metus vykstančios Kaimynų iškylos metu. Dalis rajonų gyventojų puikiai pažįsta savo gatvės ir kasdienių maršrutų elementus, tačiau kitose gatvėse esantys objektai dalyvius intrigavo.

Birželio pabaigoje šį žai­di­mą iš­ban­dė „Kul­tū­ros Nak­ties“ ren­gi­nių ieš­ko­to­jai: su­da­ly­va­vo 27 ko­man­dos. Di­džio­ji da­lis žai­džian­čių po me­di­nių Šni­piš­kių gat­ves ir kie­mus klai­džio­jo pir­mą kar­tą. „Kai į to­kį ra­jo­ną pa­ten­ki, kaip į žai­di­mo te­ri­to­ri­ją, nie­kas ne­atro­do pa­vo­jin­ga – at­virkš­čiai – jaus­mas toks, tar­si vaikš­čio­tum po žai­di­mų par­ką“, – sa­vo pir­muo­ju įspū­džiu iš­ban­džius „Ur­bin­go“ da­li­no­si so­cia­li­nių ino­va­ci­jų kū­rė­jas iš Hel­sin­kio Jaak­ko Blom­berg. Šį kartą į žaidimą įtraukėme trečdalį medinių Šnipiškių teritorijos.

Didysis Urbingo žaidimas

Liepos 24 d. buvo organizuotas Didysis Urbingo žaidimas – į kurį įtraukiama visa medinių Šnipiškių teritorija. Žaidimo kortelės traukiamos burtų būdu, todėl lengviausias maršrutas užtruko apie 50 minučių, o sudėtingesnis – iki dviejų valandų.

Apsilankė ir LRT “Labas rytas” komanda (žurnalistė Ieva Balsiūnaitė + operatorius Gediminas Zalieckas):
Reportažas apie pirmąją Urbingo versiją, skirtą unikaliam ir sparčiai besikeičiančiam medinių Šnipiškių rajonui – su kelių žaidėjų komentarais ir paties žaidimo epizodais! Nuo 29:45.

22 komandos, 67 dalyvių, 54 atrastos Šnipiškių vietos! Tarp dalyvių buvo ir Šnipiškių gyventojų, kurie subūrė savo komandas. Tačiau didžioji dalis dalyvių atvyko iš kitų Vilniaus rajonų – Lazdynų, Fabijoniškių, Žirmūnų, Karoliniškių. Išbandę žaidimą, siūlė sukurti jų rajonams skirtas “Urbingo” versijas.

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The game was developed in the framework of Inside views project, which aims to strengthen links between social, cultural, and educational institutions and to promote respect of the cultural diversity by valorising the heritage in its own diversity on local, regional and national levels, and has been funded with support from the European Commission.

Šis projektas finansuojamas remiant Europos Komisijai. Šis leidinys atspindi tik autorių požiūrį, todėl Komisija negali būti laikoma atsakinga už bet kokį jame pateikiamos informacijos naudojimą. Grundtvig yra mokymosi visą gyvenimą programos dalis, o šią programą Lietuvoje administruoja Švietimo mainų paramos fondas.
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URBINGO: press / spauda
• Lietuvos žinios: Šnipiškėms sukurtas žaidimas-gidas, 2o15 o6 28
• IVilnius: Šnipiškėms skirtas žaidimas-gidas „URBINGO“ kviečia tapti miesto atradėjais, 2o15 o6 29
• Made in Vilnius: Šnipiškėms skirtas žaidimas-gidas „Urbingo“ kviečia tapti miesto atradėjais, 2o15 o6 29
• Pilotas.lt: Miesto istorijų medžioklė: pirstatytas Šnipiškių žaidimas-gidas Urbingo, 2o15 o6 29
• Antakalnio būstas: Pristatytas pirmasis gyvenamajam rajonui skirtas žaidimas-gidas, 2o15 o6 29
• Žirmūnų būstas: Šnipiškėms skirtas žaidimas-gidas “Urbingo” kviečia tapti miesto atradėjais, 2o15 o6 29
• Lietuvos žinios: Šnipiškėse vyks didžiausias „Urbingo“ žaidimass, 2o15 o7 21
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• Urbingo Didysis žaidimas

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Project goal: Collect, systemise and publish data concerning the circular skills of the inhabitants of wooden houses in the Baltic Sea Region. This will contribute to the positive shift in recognising the value of wooden architecture, its connection to biodiversity in cities, and the lifestyles that keep it alive. To strengthen the network of organisations and professionals experienced in working with the wooden heritage.

Project locations:
– Itätulli wooden neighbourhood in the city of Pori, Satakunta region, Finland;
– wooden houses in the city of Trondheim, Trøndelag country, Norway;
– historical part of Šnipiškės district, Vilnius, Lithuania;

Working formats:
– Webinars with experts in the field of heritage preservation, research, and communication;
– Interviews with the locals and interviews with the experts;
– Visual ethnography;
– Study visits;
– Exhibition;
Project site: woodish-project.com

Partners: University of Turku, Department of Landscape Studies, Finland (leader); Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway; Laboratory for Urban Games and Research NGO “Laimikis.Lt”, Lithuania;

Associate partners:
– Vilnius Gediminas Technological University, Faculty of Creative Industries, Lithuania
– Røros Museum Preservation Center (Norway), https://rorosmuseet.no/en/preservation-centre
– Markučiai manor museum (Lithuania) https://www.markuciudvaras.lt/en
– Satakunta Museum in Pori (Finland), https://satakunnanmuseo.pori.fi/
– Vilnius Museum of Urban Architecture (Lithuania), https://mmam.lt/
– Toivo building heritage house (Finland), https://toivo.pori.fi/

Supported by: Nordic Council of Ministers
Year: 2024

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Idea: Shared yards are places of collective memory. Even though we grew up in similar spaces, the stories and things we like about our childhood and adulthood spaces differ. We invite people to open their yards and local knowledge for a small group of visitors and share stories on the topic they want – childhood games and secret places, neighbours and friends, animals and plants, urban gardening and equipment repair, architecture and planning, etc.

Method: Storytelling, walks-and-talks, guiding groups into local activities and memories connected to those activities. During the walk, we can also test what you are talking about – i.e., we tested well-forgotten childhood games during the first walk (in this case, the guide brings his or her equipment).

Anyone who applies can become a guide. Please note the district, the location within it, and the topic of the walk. Don’t hesitate to contact julius@laimikis.lt & laimikis@laimikis.lt

Why we are doing this: Today, Vilnius courtyards are primarily used for parking, and people often treat them as places for games. Through residents’ stories, we aim to unlock the potential of Vilnius’s green spaces.

Locations: We have already visited yards in the Šeškinė district in Vilnius and explored the games we played in the 70’s-90s. We visited yards in the lower Žirmūnai district in Vilnius and explored the networks between the neighbours. We visited yards in Šnipiškės and explored urban gardening; some flower beds are gorgeous! However, the district can repeat.

Launched: since 2023, recurring.

In media: You can learn more about our research on the courtyards and “Come to the Yard” initiative from Julius Narkūnas interview at LRT Opus, “District” by Donatas Šukelis (2003 March).

Documentation:

#1 – Yard as a gaming console (by Julius  Narkūnas)

Before the dawn of computer games, the yard served as a playground where you could launch many group games, such as “Stuku stuku”, “Hali-halo”, “Ali-baba”, and so on. Julius invites you to his yard in the Šeškinė district to talk about yard games in the 80s.

More about the event: Facebook. Registration is needed.

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