An isolated location, a meeting in camera between the members of the network and the artists invited by each member; the aim of this seminar is to help European artists to refine their creation project through artistic discussions in groups of different sizes. In addition to the allocation of writing aid, this is a key instrument for blending the aesthetics and forming a European community of artists.

The city in metamorphosis, on foot, in common provides support for co-productions selected by the network as a whole and corresponding to the themes of the META project.

. Metamorphoses

META will give rise to three large-scale European productions which transform the site on which they are performed. Emblematic of European art in public space and of the network itself, ambitious in artistic terms and with regard to public and media repercussions, they will mark the life of the territories in which they are performed, beginning with the European Capitals of Culture 2013 – Marseille (France) and Kosice (Slovakia).

.Walk in progress

Urban or rural circuit events will explore the relationship between pedestrians and transport, new technologies and urban change. Each partner in the inner circle will select an artist who, after the première in his/her own country, will adapt his/her circuit to the contexts of the European partners. The producer Robert Wilson will act as a mentor in this process.

. Shared cities

The involvement of the inhabitants, conviviality, “know-how-to-party” and marginality: these are the three threads that the artists must endeavour to weave together between the real city, the dream city and the disjointed or scarred city.

Embracing Europe primarily facilitates the circulation throughout Europe of the artists and works supported by the other META actions. This might involve residence aid or translation aid for shows requiring additional work before being performed in a country other than that where they were created

Europeans abroad aims to create bridges with artistic and cultural partners outside Europe in the form of residences or co-productions. Calling on its experience throughout the European territory, the IN SITU network offers its partners and artists the opportunity to enhance their practices by discovering the realities of other continents.

Artists caring for the cities during meetings serving as a forum for discussion with personalities from the worlds of ideas, politics, economics and the civil society in general concerning their vision of the modern city. The Laboratories organised by Kobenhavs Internationale Teater in Copenhagen will form the framework for these meetings scheduled for 2012 and 2014. The meeting to be held in 2013 will take the form of simultaneous conferences in the two European Capitals of Culture – Marseille (France) and Kosice (Slovakia).

The network has always placed its reflexion between the present and the future. Throughout the META project, the partners will turn their minds to the legacy of the project which has already been sketched out: the creation of a European Foundation for Urban and Environmental Projects, a European Observatory of the Pedestrian City and a Charter for Artistic Intervention in Urban Change signed by local elected representatives throughout the entire network. There are the options to prolong the META activities and initiate new processes within the IN SITU network.