In the previous part, we focused on the participatory journey of HeritACT in Eleusis: on how the city remembered, narrated, and redefined its cultural heritage through collective processes. In this second part, we move on to the results of this journey and the imprint that the project left on the everyday life of the city.
After a multi-layered participatory journey, HeritACT in Eleusis left behind something tangible: interventions, tools, digital applications and, above all, a different relationship of the community with its cultural heritage. The question now was not only how the city participated, but what it held in its hands the next day.
What is of particular importance is that these results were not delivered to the city as ready-made solutions. They were shaped within the city and together with the city, with a community that functioned as an active contributor and not as a passive recipient.
Today, Eleusis receives results that are being tested in everyday life:
What makes the above stand out is that they were not “delivered” to the city as ready-made solutions. They were worked through within the city and together with it -with a community that functioned as an active contributor.
At the concluding events, the city saw its journey condensed into a series of moments. Starting with the Final General Assembly of the project partners, with a review of the course and the next steps. Continuing with the Open NEB Day, with pan-European hybrid participation and three round tables on the values of the New European Bauhaus. And, finally, with a day dedicated to the community: open presentation of results, thematic walk on the waterfront and participatory co-installation of mobile furniture at the Refreshment Pavilion.
The three-day event was completed with a Projection Mapping action at the Greek Pontian Genocide Square, presenting a short animated film inspired by participatory workshops in Eleusis and Ballina, while at the same time the HeritACT Exhibition at Cine Elefsis remained open to visitors for one week after the end of the actions, until 5 February 2026.
Within all this, the awarding of the pupils was perhaps the most condensed image of the project: a “thank you” not only for their participation, but because they showed that the new generation can turn the weight of the past into creativity.
And thus, HeritACT closed as it began: as a project that was made together with the city.
These numbers do not function simply as an account. They capture the breadth of a process that activated schools, collectives, city structures, professionals, citizens of different ages and, ultimately, an entire ecosystem of participation.
We warmly thank the teachers, the pupils of the city’s Primary Schools and Lower Secondary Schools, the Parents and Guardians Associations, the members of the 1st and 2nd Open Care Centres for Older People (KAPI), the city’s Associations and their members, the Photographic Club, Filiki Folia, the Workers’ Centre of Eleusis and West Attica (E.K.E.D.A.), the Centre for Environmental Education (KEPEA of Eleusis), the Cultterra team, the Scouts of Eleusis, as well as everyone who took part in HeritACT.
The contribution of all -through interviews, questionnaires, the granting of objects, photographic and printed material, as well as participation in workshops of co-recognition, co-envisioning and co-design of digital and architectural solutions- was decisive. Thanks to this collective effort, the project was able to serve its goal: the reactivation of places of cultural heritage in Eleusis in a participatory, sustainable and meaningful way.
Special thanks to the project partners: University of Patras, University of the Aegean, University College Dublin, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), Municipality of Eleusis, Mayo County Council, Comune di Milano, Ideas For Change, THINGS, Stefano Boeri, European Network of Cultural Centres, ACT, LAND.