Açoteia - Faro Rooftop Festival

Name Açoteia - Faro Rooftop Festival
Status The first and only edition was held in 2019. The intention is to hold a new edition of the festival in 2022
Location Parish Councils of Sé and São Pedro, Faro
Entity Municipality of Faro

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About the project

Açoteia is a festival that aims to value the identity of Faro and the Algarve with a proposal to rediscover the city's upper spaces, giving the public a new vision of these places and how they can be used. The aim is for the roof terraces to become accessible spaces for people to meet, for artistic experimentation and for the promotion of sustainability. Hence, the main angles of approach of this initiative are environmental sustainability, the promotion of community life and cultural and artistic dynamisation.
Within the scope of the work on rooftops, 9 organisations from different European cities, led by the Municipality of Faro, created the European Creative Rooftop Network project, financed by the European Commission. This network cooperates in promoting the innovative use of Europe's rooftops as elements of cultural heritage, developing creative cultural, energy efficiency, climate adaptation and circular economy projects, and creating solutions to the social, economic and environmental challenges facing Europe.

European New Bauhaus framework

This concept that promotes the reuse of rooftops is expanding across Europe and has the potential to run the world, as there is a huge area of unused rooftops, but with a lot of potential to host transformative projects that are accessible to all and have positive impacts on the environmental resilience, social integration and sustainability of our cities.