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Project Happy-Nes(t)s
H
appy-Nes(t)s is a concept of the nexus between arts, culture, heritage and well-being as a strategic and research resource for personal and community development.
The project is implemented in partnership between
The Factory Association (Bulgaria)
Procediendo lab: design and social creativity for sustainable local development (Spain)
The project is supported by the European Cultural Foundation
The ongoing economic crisis is challenging the way we understand and measure economic growth. One of the latest measures of happiness, the World Happiness Index links development and progress to integrated and sustainable well-being for everyone.
The UN General Assembly voted in 2013 to declare March 20 as the International Day of Happiness.
“The pursuit of happiness is a fundamental human goal,” said the resolution, adopted by consensus by delegates from the 193 countries represented at the United Nations.
In 2013, the UK Office for National Statistics added arts and culture to its Measuring National Wellbeing survey for the first time
It is a recognition of the importance that arts and culture have for the well-being of people and place.
In August this year the Scottish Government published a study which found that “Participation in cultural activities significantly improves health and life satisfaction”.
The originality of the project is in connecting happiness – joy, health, solidarity; life – satisfaction, well-being, balance; man – society, culture, values; the earth – territory, process, life and thought cycle,
The project envisages inter-disciplinarity, cross-sector cooperation – artists and cultural workers, scientists, in particular anthropologists, economists, etc. which in partnership to develop a new sub-sector indicator to support the World Happiness Index.
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Individual artists:
  • Carlos Jimenez
  • Joanna Thiele
  • Atanas Totlyakov
  • Nadezhda Savova
  • Evelina Kurkovska
  • Maciej Zdanovic
MEDIA COVERAGE