KULTŪROS DIRBTUVĖ

NGO Kulturos Dirbtuve - Nonprofit, non-governmental organization WE INITIATE AND FACILITATE REGENERATIVE PLACEMAKING IN URBANISED TERRITORIES The Kulturos Dirbtuve (KD) team is united by the MISSION to reveal and empower the biocultural uniqueness of places by stimulating people’s curiosity and inspiring them to take action for the thriving of the living systems in urbanised territories. The KD team aims to actively contribute to the (re)creation of sustainable cities and communities. The co-founders of KD have been gathering experience since 2015 when Evelina Šimkutė initiated the activities of ‘Šilainiai Photo’ and the creative platform ‘Šilainiai Project’, which gradually helped to get to know the Šilainiai housing estate in Kaunas. Thanks to many co-creative and voluntary efforts, phenomena such as local activation in Fort VIII, gardening in the city ‘Šilainiai Sodai’ (Šilainiai Gardens) have emerged and are growing steadily, to which Rūta Lukošiūnaitė has been actively contributing since 2018. All activities in Šilainiai are referred to by the KD team as regenerative placemaking. From 2021, we operate under the name of “Kultūros dirbtuvė”, continuing the regenerative placemaking process in Šilainiai and expanding to other urbanised territories in Lithuania and beyond.