Journal launch: Citizenship In Practice: Culture, Agency & Public Imagination
Citizenship In Practice: Culture, Agency & Public Imagination (CIP) Journal
Publication and access to the journal:
Format
Online, published on an ad hoc basis as new encounters emerge
Editor
Georgia Kotretsos
Email
thetelossociety@gmail.com
Website
thetelossociety.com
Phone
+30 6948043637
THE ΤΕΛΟΣ SOCIETY (TTS), a nonprofit research organization based in Greece, is excitedto launch a new international online journal called Citizenship In Practice: Culture, Agency & Public Imagination (CIP) . This journal emerges from TTS’s sustained research mission, aiming to bridge the gap between traditional citizenship—defined by law—and a more dynamic understanding of citizenship as a continuous process of cultural practice, social imagination, and agency that unfolds in everyday life. In a time marked by overload, fatigue, fragmentation, and the rise of cosmetic culture, CIP responds to the urgent need to explore how citizenship is enacted, negotiated, and transformed beyond normative frameworks.
CIP solicits individuals and collective authors whose ethical practices aim at expanding participation, reconfigure relationships of belonging, and model alternative civic possibilities. Their capacity to challenge prevailing narratives and foster new visions of belonging is a central focus of the journal.
The inaugural issue: Alix Collingwood
The first issue of the Journal features an in depth conversation with Alix Collingwood about her experiences and career centered on bottom-up cultural empowerment. In her capacity as Head of Engagement at Redhills, formerly the Durham Miners’ Association, which propagated groundbreaking social reform for miners and their families in North West England, she leads Redhills’ community, heritage, and arts engagement programs. Collaborating with strategic partners, including community stakeholders, funders, delivery partners, and schools, she curates and shares Redhills’ collections with the community. Additionally, she is involved in various Community Interest Companies, such as Changing Relations, which challenges gender stereotypes and relationship behaviors, and Pink Collar Gallery, which supports women in developing their art practices.
You can read the inaugural issue here.
The editor. The journal is published online on an ad-hoc basis. Georgia Kotretsos, who has been active in THE ΤΕΛΟΣ SOCIETY for 7 years, states that “The journal seeks to make visible the ways culture functions as both medium and method of civic life — where professional practices become acts of citizenship and where collective imagination shapes what is possible,”. She remains available for media enquiries, interviews, review copies, or further information.
THE TEΛΟΣ SOCIETY, Arts & Culture Research Lab Observatorium, was founded in 2019 in VVV, Attica, Greece. It is a non-profit cultural research organization and publisher working at the intersection of contemporary art, social and human sciences. Our main operational axis is grounded in culture, intangible heritage, society, the environment, and financial sustainability, as it is lived and practiced in the Greek periphery, while expanding organically when necessary. TTS defines its core field of study as Greece within its broader geographic and cultural context—the Balkans, the Mediterranean, and the MENASA region.
TTS does not lead output-driven projects. Rather, we form long-term relationships, by being in a continuous dialogue with regions and communities in an effort to ignite agency in our collaborators. Interdisciplinarity, within this framework, becomes both a methodological tool and a condition for generating new concepts and original artistic forms.
