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Meet Reset!: Collaborative solutions for the cultural sector

Date: November 8th, 2025
Location: Arroz Estúdios, Lisbon

We invite the cultural and creative community to a day where, together, we will reflect on the challenges currently facing the cultural sector, in Lisbon and beyond.

In light of the closure of several landmark cultural venues in the city, we take as our starting point the theme “The importance of reclaiming physical spaces to empower the community,” the annual curatorial focus of Reset! network, the European network of independent cultural and media organizations, of which this initiative is a part.

More than identifying problems, the aim is, through workshops, discussion panels and networking opportunities, contribute to the construction of collaborative solutions and the creation of sustainability and training strategies.

Entry is free. Sign up using the link below.

This initiative is part of the Rare Effect festival, by Arroz Estúdios, and is organized by a consortium that brings together the cultural association Arroz Estúdios, the Well Read bookstore and Gerador, with the support of the Reset! network.

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AGENDA

We're meeting at Arroz Estúdios in Lisbon to discuss collaborative solutions, sustainability and training strategies for the cultural and creative community through workshops, panel discussions, and networking. Doors open at 10:30 AM.

11:00

Arroz Estúdios

Workshop Reclaiming the Cloud: Towards a Digital Commons

Billie Dibb
European Alternatives

‘Cloud’, ‘Web’, ‘Surfing’ : Hidden behind metaphors of nature, fluidity & collectivity lies a very material, exploitive, and undemocratic digital infrastructure. In this workshop-presentation we will begin to unpick the internets designed invisibility, touching upon concepts such as data colonialism, commons, and cyberfeminism, and explore art, cultural & community techniques for creating a digital commons.

EN

12:15

Arroz Estúdios

Presentation: Reclaiming spaces, reimagining communities: the example of Berlin, with the team of the project 90mil

Emma Patmore
Hilary Cox
Julia Siemienowicz
Thea Hope

In an increasingly digital, fragmented, and commercialized world, what is the true importance of reclaiming physical spaces? The team behind Berlin multi-disciplinary venue 90miland it's projects—The Palace Residency, 90mil Radio, and 90mil Art School— work to activate spaces, foster communities and unite local and international cultural ecosystems.

EN

14:30

Arroz Estúdios

Workshop Resignifying Places: Designing with and for Communities

Colectivo Warehouse

Curated by Gerador, this practical workshop, led by Warehouse Colective, invites participants to reflect and experiment with ways to breathe new life into neglected or disused spaces through architectural and artistic practices. We will explore how Community design, focused on collaboration between citizens, artists and architects, can be a driver of transformation and redefinition of the territory.

EN

16:00

Arroz Estúdios

Panel Parainstitutions and Sustainable Autonomous Zones

Steven Mackay
Arroz Estúdios
Kaitlyn Davies
Well Read

More speakers to be announced soon.

The concept of a “Temporary Autonomous Zone,” or TAZ, as coined by poet and philosopher Hakim Bey in 1990, has inspired festivals and DIY initiatives for over a decade in an attempt to create spaces where creative expression and human interaction are free from the constraints of everyday life. In this panel, we question the temporary nature of these spaces, imagining the construction of long-term infrastructures run by independent cultural organizations, with sustainability and new organizational structures as priorities.

EN

17:30

Arroz Estúdios

Networking drinks

THE HEADLINERS

Learn more about the professionals you will meet on this day. The presentation is in alphabetical order.

11:00

Billie Dibb

European Alternatives

Billie is the imagination (cultural) coordinator at European Alternatives, a multidisciplinary artist and cyber witch. They have an academic background in International Politics with a focus on big data and gendered nationalism. Currently they are interested in, researching and designing ways towards a democratic & feminist digital commons.

12:15

Emma Patmore

90mil

Emma Patmore (she/they) is a producer, community organiser, mycologist, artist & activist based in Berlin. They are part of 90mil’s core team, specialising in leading 90mil Art School, a series of open courses aimed at broadening access to creative practice. Emma’s work with fungi revolves around material experiments, mycoregeneration, multi-species agency & living sculptures; together with the Mycelionaires collective, she has been sharing this knowledge through workshops & open labs.

14:30

Colectivo Warehouse

Colectivo Warehouse is a Lisbon-based collective that works in the fields of architecture, urbanism, and design linked to social and cultural projects, with a particular focus on public space and shared spaces, both public and private. The collective believes in co-creation as a way to build resilient communities, and in self-construction as an activating moment for spatial appropriation dynamics, and in the civic and social empowerment of those involved. It also values ​​the importance of process, horizontality, the sharing of experiences and resources, and non-formal and non-hierarchical forms of learning.

12:15

Hilary Cox

90mil

Hilary C/B is lead facilitator of 90mil Radio, a broadcast platform located in the Berlin-based venue and community hub for intermedia arts, 90mil. He is also a sound artist and intermedia creative whose practice is centred in electronic and electroacoustic modalities. Her recent inquiries in time-based media–with sound as an ever-present, uniting thread, extending to performance, installation, and radio art–often explore the limitations and distortions of memory and perception, as well as the complex dynamics that arise as a result of fluctuations in time and proximity.

12:15

Julia Siemienowicz

90mil

Julia Siemienowicz is a multidisciplinary producer, researcher, and art historian, as well as a community facilitator. Since 2019, Julia has been a key member of The Palace Collective – as one of three lead producers for The Palace Residency 2024, she plays a pivotal role in shaping the long-term sustainability and impact of the program. Based in Berlin she’s currently leading the development of a 90mil multidisciplinary cultural venue dedicated to fostering artistic expression, community engagement, and cultural innovation.

16:00

Kaitlyn Davies

Well Read

Kaitlyn Davies (she/her) is a Toronto-born, Lisbon-based, creative producer and researcher. Currently, she owns and operates Well Read, an art and design bookstore in central Lisbon, alongside her role at the digital arts organisation Refraction, where she is acting curator and creative producer for events and exhibitions during Miami Art Week, SXSW, MUTEK Montreal and Tokyo, Berlin Blockchain Week, Lisbon’s Web Summit and more. In addition to her curatorial and production work, Kaitlyn has lectured and facilitated workshops at ZK/U, UPTEC, Sonar Festival, re:publica, MIL Lisbon, DMEXCO and at several other conferences and symposiums in Europe and North America.

16:00

Steven Mackay

Arroz Estúdios

Founder and President of Arroz Estudios Association, Steven MacKay is a creative with a technical background innovating at the forefront of arts & technology. Originally from Manchester, UK - Steven spent his early 2018s programming venues, creating immersive arts installations, DJing & studying engineering. After moving to Lisbon in XNUMX Steven created the social arts project Arroz Estudios and went on to found Rare Effect festival as well as dipping his toes into product development in the Blockchain sector in which he is still deeply embedded. Now working globally as a curator and music journalist, Steven is a deep thinker and activist around social & digital topics in from Portugal to Palestine & beyond.

12:15

Thea Hope

90mil

Thea Hope is the co-founder and director of The Palace Collective eV and 90mil, a new temporary, multidisciplinary space located in the heart of Berlin. As a cultural facilitator, she specializes in community and DIY practices, championing cultural development through international exchange, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and intersectional dialogue. She is also a board member of the Clubcommission Berlin.
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