18 / 11 / 2025
P.A.I.R
Paving Accessible and Inclusive Realities (P.A.I.R.)
Recognizing diversity as the key to cultural innovation
The Project P.A.I.R.
Paving Accessible and Inclusive Realities (P.A.I.R.) is an innovative two-year European initiative (2024–2026) that aims to reshape how we understand, create, and experience culture. The project envisions a cultural landscape where equality, accessibility, and inclusion are not add-ons, but core guiding principles.
P.A.I.R. is coordinated by liminal (Greece) in partnership with Alternative Brains Rule – ABR (Cyprus) and the Estonian Agrenska Foundation (Estonia), bringing together organizations committed to redefining inclusive artistic practice across Europe.
At its core, P.A.I.R. adopts the Creative Accessibility Methodology and principles of Universal Design to ensure that accessibility becomes embedded in every artistic decision—from concept to creation to public presentation. The project promotes a holistic and participatory approach, fostering meaningful collaboration between cultural institutions, artists, disability communities, and their representative organizations.
Through the co-creation of digital artworks and multisensory experiences by artists with and without disabilities, P.A.I.R. introduces new ways of thinking about participation, artistic innovation, and cultural sustainability. By expanding access and amplifying diverse forms of expression, the project strives to pave the way toward a more inclusive and future-ready cultural sector.
The partners
liminal is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing equal participation in culture. Since 2016, it has been actively fostering the transition towards a cultural landscape that embraces human diversity in its entirety. Serving as a platform for dialogue and creative exchange, liminal welcomes a dynamic and diverse community. This community recognizes that unrestricted participation in culture is not only an inalienable human right but also a catalyst for revitalizing artistic practices and enriching the societal significance of art. The core pillars of activity for liminal are Education, Accessibility Services, Productions and Research.
Alternative Brains Rule
Alternative Brains Rule (ABR) is a non-profit creative agency based in Nicosia, Cyprus. ABR is a high-performing, dynamic team that has been creating groundbreaking cultural experiences with social impact across Europe since 2011. Blending elements of design, community development, and artistic creation, ABR collaborates with organizations seeking change to envision and build a happier, fairer, and more sustainable future.
The Estonian Agrenska Foundation is a modern counseling and development center for children and young people with disabilities and their families in Estonia. Its core support services include family counseling, childcare, and providing personal support staff for children with severe and multiple disabilities. It also offers long-term rehabilitation services and organizes family camps and family days for families with children and youth with disabilities.
The project P.A.I.R. (Paving Accessible and Inclusive Realities), is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme CREA-CULT-2024-COOP-1 of the European Union.
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