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RISE UP

 

PROJECT SUMMARY

RISE UP aims to empower endangered language communities by building connections between relevant actors, identifying good practices and developing methods through a multi-disciplinary approach. Furthermore, RISE UP will foster the self-confidence of these communities, including learners, new speakers, people who have not yet had the chance to learn their heritage language, supporters, and more. Through the collection and analysis of context information and policies for endangered languages in Europe, the creation of a tool set for communities, the connection of relevant actors and the involvement of young people, specifically, RISE UP aims to provide support and empowerment to endangered language communities in Europe.

 

Duration

02/2023 to 01/2026

Programme

HORIZON EUROPE

HORIZON-CL2-2022-HERITAGE-01-01

Coordination & Support Action

Grant ID

101095048

 

PROJECT BACKGROUND

Languages have always played an important role when groups of people were living side by side. Speakers might be suppressed or take up a new language. But as much as a language says a lot about individual identity, it also carries a large reference to the culture and history of the group in which it is spoken and the cultural background. It is tightly interwoven with emotions and traditions, which are worth keeping up, as they stand for personal roots.

RISE UP interconnects all relevant knowledge actors including citizens, civil society and end users. It collects and analyses background information, it identifies good practices and develops new methods with the help and support of people being concerned and interested in the topic. Thus, RISE UP aims at the empowerment of these endangered language communities, fostering their self-confidence and overcoming past trauma. In the understanding of the RISE UP consortium, these endangered language communities include learners, new speakers, people who have not had the chance to learn their heritage languages, supporters, and other interested parties as well as actual speakers.

RISE UP explores and deals with
(a) Context, reasons and policies for endangered languages within Europe
(b) Collecting and creating a set of tools to support local communities
(c) Interconnecting relevant groups of stakeholders and
(d) Involving and attracting especially young people and other stakeholders, e.g. by using digital tools.

 

Website: https://www.riseupproject.eu/

 

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#VoicesOfCommunity  : From the 22nd to the 29th of may we celebrated the Voice’s of Community Residence: artists from the 5 communities of the cases of study of the Rise Up Project came to Barcelona to work on voice creations.

 

– We visited Centre Artesà Tradicionàrius: their Artistic Director Carol Duran showed us the spaces and talked us through their work and aims. Then we had dinner hearing a Germans Martorell concert
– We had a workshop with Felicia Trouvenot and shared our creativity experiences with Alidé Sans
– We also worked with Ferran Belda, the Kieli digital artist, looking for words in all five languages that could suit his work
– The artists also worked together on a common piece
– We went to record to the Eurecat studios to record the artists own creations
– On the 29th we visited the Primavera Pro, a very important music industry event linked to the Primavera Sound Festival
 
 

– From the 13th of june to the 16h Kieli will be EXHIBITED on Sónar: “KIELI is a project born from the collaboration between digital artist Ferran Belmon and the European project RISE UP, curated by Alejandro Martin.

The installation features a collection of words curated by the artists from the latest RISE UP artist residency. Utilizing artificial intelligence algorithms, the artist invites the audience to co-create new sound avatars by exploring the sonority of these selected languages. Visitors can generate new words by combining pairs from this set, crafting a speculative new language.”

 

 

The use of algorithms and generative models is perceived by some as a threat to linguistic diversity on the Internet, given that a very high percentage of the texts with which artificial intelligences are trained are only in English, but initiatives such as the Aina Project demonstrate that they can also be a tool for the defense and promotion of minority languages. It is an objective that also pursues Kieli , an installation developed by Ferran Belmon within the ESPRONCEDA Institute of Art & Culture that seeks to make endangered languages visible.

“Language is not only a means of communication, but it is intrinsic to the way of living, of understanding the world, how a community relates…. So we proposed what would happen if, in the digital space, we took one of these languages and mixed it with another, as if they were a border, and generated a new one,” summarizes the center’s artistic director, Alejandro Martín.

Thus, the project takes five minority languages of Europe (Aranese, Heto, Aromanese, Cornish and Burgenland Serbo-Croatian) and a selection of words, each one of them with all the languages. “What the installation does inside is generate a few words from two. We transcribe both words into the phonetic dictionary and ask the artificial intelligence tool to mix them up and give them a grammatical meaning in the two languages,” Belmon explains. “Once we have these words, we pass them to ElevenLabs, another AI tool, to pronounce them.”

 

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