Dourgouti Island Hotel Project (2015-2016) at Dourgouti neighborhood of Athens is a showcase for the collective cross-field research and management of local cultural capital and for activating a local community network with sustainable features. It is a showcase of the Urban Dig Project, a platform created by the award-winning Ohi Pezoume Performing Arts Company (TEDxAthens 1st prize, 2011). The group inspires a cross-field horizontal network of scientists, artists, researchers, students, and residents of all ages to research and map a neighborhood. The backbone of the research method is the voluntary formation of:(a) a series of community events with the double role of collecting and sharing interesting material about the neighborhood and (b) several cross-field research groups created by residents, scientists, artists, University students. The Dourgouti Island Hotel Project effectively demonstrated how civic engagement can influence urban planning and resilience by fostering community participation, reclaiming public space, and strengthening local networks. Through artistic interventions, participatory mapping, and storytelling, the project offered a model for bottom-up urban regeneration, ultimately enhancing both the spatial and social resilience of the neighborhood. Some of the results are:

• Supporting the creation and the operation of a local Oral History Group that still exists
• Contributing to local capacity development through workshops and meetings for knowledge sharing. Based on statistics, most participants chose to offer a much wider variety of skills in the project than what they introduced themselves with
• Supporting local participants of the program to curate their findings about the area into libretti for a music performance celebrating Dourgouti produced by the Onassis Foundation Cultural Center that is based nearby