Networked Cultures carries out research using a variety of strands along which the project itself can develop within networks of exchanges and interventions. First, it looks at contested spaces across Europe by following the routes of networks laid out by artists, architects, curators and activists, gathering material, sharing ideas, filming and interviewing people along these journeys. Second, they invite groups, practices or initiatives to share information about their work on their online database, which offers a growing archive of urban interventions, public art projects and architectural experiments.

It seeks to conceptualise the knowledge embodied by these new forms of socio-spatial organisation and group action and will explore the ways in which they offer new perspectives for dealing with contested spaces. In particular, it will investigate how the examined spatial practices can reduce our dependence on fixed and separated knowledge, while giving us the tools to develop new knowledge together.

As well as a database, the organisation’s website includes conversations between experts in the field, texts and publications, as well as information about galleries and exhibitions.