Training for the Contact Zone – Vitoria-Gasteiz

From 12 to 14 November 2025, a pilot training will take place in Vitoria-Gasteiz as part of the European project Training for the Contact Zone, led by Conexiones improbables. The course will bring together professionals from the cultural, educational and social sectors around a shared aim: to develop tools to engage with memory, conflict and diversity in participatory and transformative ways.

The programme is structured around three interrelated dimensions — personal, community and territorial — that will serve as frameworks for exploring both individual and collective memories, acknowledging their layers, silences and tensions. Throughout the process, memory will be approached as a living, malleable material — something to be handled with care, attention and creativity. A true crafting of memory: a patient, situated practice of shaping experience into stories, images and shared meaning.

In the Basque context — where recent history is marked by wounds, absences and unspoken words — this training offers a space to listen, revisit, represent and give form to what is still difficult to name. Rather than seeking closure or consensus, the intention is to open questions, exchange perspectives and design cultural tools that allow us to approach conflict in sensitive, critical and constructive ways.

The training includes an introductory online session, three in-person days at Hibridalab (Vitoria-Gasteiz), and a final online meeting for collective reflection.