Instituto Mutante de Narrativas Ambientales.

With almost two million annual visitors until 2019 and an exponential growth of the online audience in 2020, the Centre of Contemporary Creation Matadero Madrid is the headquarters of the main cultural events in the city and a meeting point between local and international creation. Matadero is a space that encourages inclusion and diversity. The Centre activates culture as a tool for change through the following programmes and communities (all of them detailed in the Partner activities section):

• Intermediae, which works with socially committed artistic practices since 2007.
• Afro-Conscience Space, which fosters a cross-cultural education model and educational responsibility from a post-colonial perspective.
• Liwai, a programme for the reflection and creation from and for residents of Chinese origin in Madrid to foster intercultural mediation.
• Medialab, a citizens’ laboratory for open culture projects.
• Centre for Artists in Residence, which supports artist experimentation and production

The Technical University of Madrid, one of the main public universities in Spain, has a great asset of 3.000 teachers and researchers and 40.000 students. The itdUPM is an interdisciplinary centre that integrates researchers, professors and students to contribute to the SDG. It works with diverse agents and institutions, civil society organizations, public administrations and private sector to tackle complex problems related to sustainability and co-create and implement practical solutions. Through itdUPM, the University acts as a local facilitator, integrating the participation of various interest groups, connecting opportunities. In 2018, Matadero and the itdUPM created the IMNA, a lab to unite art, science and society in interdisciplinary projects for climate. IMNA articulates and catalyses the climatic research and action of both centres in cultural initiatives, integrating the multiple and diverse communities involved. It also collaborates with all kinds of civic groups and associations, companies and public institutions such as Mothers and Teachers for Climate, Carasso Foundation, Greenpeace, Ecologists in Action, Extinction Rebellion, Sabadell Foundation, L’Óreal, Acción Cultural Española, the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), the Living Architecture Group and many others. IMNA arises from the conviction that transformations will only be possible if a true change in our mentalities and habits takes place and by activating collective intelligence. It was created with a clear mission: to promote new narratives of a prosperous horizon, despite the many complexities at play, and to foster interdisciplinary research and action through art integrating diversity. IMNA works with national and international artists in different formats (exhibition, urban design, audiovisual, textual; storytelling) and amplifying and accelerating civic initiatives.

IMNA operates through an interdisciplinary network, the members of which are a local and international group of artists, civic groups, designers, researchers, philosophers, scientists, engineers, architects, public policymakers and many other agents. With their help IMNA has created a portfolio of interconnected projects that act at a city, regional, national and European levels. Amongst many others and in relation to making the Green Deal a tangible and positive experience, we highlight the following: At a neighbourhood scale:

• Cyborg Garden, a series of working groups led by artists and architects and with the participation of urban planners, geologists, botanists, engineers, sociologists, anthropologists, designers and civic groups to co-create and implement nature based solutions in Matadero and other city locations.
• MDD Urban retrofit, civic engagement processes for the rehabilitation and sustainable improvement of neighbourhoods and homes with criteria of energy efficiency, accessibility and habitability in the cities of Madrid and Seville.
• The seed exchange bank, an initiative to recover, produce and share seeds adapted to local growing conditions Youth activation projects.
• The Ministry of the Future, a summer camp where children and young activists meet to explore long term policies through video art and radical pedagogies.
• “Young Innovators, ecology at neighbourhood level”, a citizen science programme for the schools at the south of Madrid.
• The Young Climathon with schools from other cities of Spain.
• The Climate Innovation Leadership, for university students of Madrid and other cities.
• The Madrid City Studio, a programme that connects MA and BA dissertation projects of university students with municipal projects Environmental communication.
• Cli-Fi series, a climatic fiction TV series to reflect on the future of humans and other species in cities after undergoing through extreme greening and urban retrofit processes.
• The Mutant Radio, our podcasting programme of debate with different communities of the city.
• The Storytelling Residencies, connecting artists, journalists and mass media School of Environmental Humanities and the City (SEHC)

As part of Matadero Critical Studies, the programme of independent studies of Matadero, we are launching a course to imagine how we can articulate a School of Environmental Humanities and the City that can operate in Madrid but also at a regional level and in other cities of Spain. The School proposes a creative laboratory of imagination and invention of the city with a triple digital, ecological and social dimension. Directed by artists and architects the aim is to bring together various existing initiatives in this area to generate a workspace to explore the use of critical cartography and radical pedagogies to localise the Green Deal.