By developing and testing new practices and models in line with the European Green Deal and NEB principles, the Waterside Voices project aims to investigate how marginalised voices connect to urban waterscapes, in search of ways to increase their spatial agency towards a more equitable and sustainable city-dwelling through culture. The project includes the research, development, implementation and testing of three creative interventions on three distinct European urban waterscapes as the result of extended processes of participatory design research and co-design.

By creating a shared understanding through participatory inquiry, the project designs a broad rendering of current phenomena, participatory storytelling of water-related narratives and multiple creative outputs for a long-term shift in the accessibility of and connectivity to urban waterfronts. These creative, sustainable and inclusive outputs, co-designed and co-stewarded by vulnerable communities they target, aim to increase long-term cross-sectoral accessibility and engagement with waterscapes, raise awareness of common issues and goals, as well as ensure highly effective transnational dissemination and transfer of best practices.