The conference will tackle important topics for the cultural and creative stakeholders today: access to different financing resources and protection of Intellectual Property Rights, the future of arts education and education through the arts, glocalization and specific cultural policies for the non-urban and rural areas and their cultural scene, innovation, and many others. How to bring forward Collaborative cross-sectoral initiatives that are based on the principle of equality of stakeholders and empathy? How can mobility programs act as a springboard for the establishment of sustainable and long-term partnerships among the hub community?
Discover the conference agenda for details and location of each session throughout three days in between Porto, Viana do Castelo and online.
We can’t wait to host you in the beautiful city of Porto!
To the attention of all ECHN members: Please note that the next ECHN General Assembly will also take place as part of this conference and that applications to the new Board of Directors will be opening soon. Members will received detailed information by email.
MORNING/AFTERNOON
Location: Porto Innovation Hub & UPTEC Baixa | |
Closed side event, on invitation only | |
11:00-17:30 | CREATIVE FLIP LEARNING LABSLLabs Workshop |
15:00-17:30 | PEER TO PEER TWIN HUBS PROGRAMTwinning Ceremony |
EVENING
Location: UPTEC Baixa | |
Formal Conference Opening | |
17:30-18:00 | ARRIVAL OF PARTICIPANTS, WELCOME COFFEE |
18:30-19:00 | livestreamedWELCOME ADDRESSDubravka Jurisic, Creative FLIP/ Goethe-Institut |
19:00-20:00 | KEYNOTE SPEECHESRural Innovation through culture | The Genalguacil Pueblo Museo case Miguel Ángel Herrera Gutiérrez & Ana Ramos Imaginaries of Positive Disruption: Design- and arts-based practices towards viable socio-ecological worlds |
20:00-21:00 | NETWORKING COCKTAIL |
MORNING
| 08:45-09:15 | REGISTRATION |
| 09:15-10:00 | livestreamedWELCOME WORDSModerators: Vassilis Charalampidis, ECHN and Dubravka Jurisic, Goethe-Institut Dr. Jana Binder, Goethe-Institut |
| 10:00-11:15 | CREATIVES UNITE: OFFICIAL LAUNCH AND SHOWCASING OF NEW TOOLSINTERACTIVE DISCUSSION & INSPIRATIONAL STORIESSo You Need Money? Tool – the importance of different finance sources My Intellectual Property Tool – how to value your IP |
| 11:15-11:45 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:45-13:15 | ARTS EDUCATION AND EDUCATION THROUGH THE ARTSKEYNOTE SPEECHESWhat does a Cities course do in an Arts school? Shaping the future of Arts Education | FAST45 PANEL DISCUSSIONModerator: Davide Amato, ECHN Speakers: Knowledge exchange – Peer 2 Peer programs Learning Labs Barbara Revelli, FAST45 |
| 13:15-14:15 | LUNCH BREAK |
AFTERNOON
| 14:15-15:15 | livestreamedGLOCALIZATION IN CULTURE AND CREATIVITYPANEL DISCUSSIONModerator: Vassilis Charalampidis, ECHN Speakers: Changing rural perspectives for and with culture Urban Transformation through creative & co-creation practices | The Future DiverCities Project, Urgent CCS skill gaps Coral Project | The impact of collaborative workspaces in rural & peripheral areas The Genalguacil Pueblo Museo |
| 15:15-17:00 | INNOVATION CULTUREA New kind of blue project | An inspiring case SHORT COFFEE BREAK PARALLEL SESSIONS1.INNOVATION X CCI X HUBS Moderator: André Forte Speakers: -Bombarda Creative District, Tânia Santos 2.HOW TO BRING FORWARD COLLABORATIVE CROSS-SECTORAL INITIATIVES? Creative FLIP: Sylvia Amann, Inforelais / Joost Heinsius, Values of Culture / Isabelle DeVoldere & Martina Fraioli, IDEA consult 3.EMPATHY IN CREATIVE PROCESSES -Pathways for knowledge exchange based upon empathy | -The power of networking in tackling complex challenges | Ukrainian support program by MakersXchange |
| 17:00-17:30 | FINAL KEYNOTECan the art-world degrow? |
| 17:30-19:00 | CREATIVE NEIGHBORHOOD EXPLORATION Tour of the Local Creative District | Bombarda |
MORNING
Location: UPTEC Baixa | |
Side Event | |
10:00-10:30 | MORNING COFFEE AND INFORMAL NETWORKING |
10:30-12:30 | ECHN GENERAL ASSEMBLY(ECHN MEMBERS ONLY) & OPEN SPACE NETWORKING(ALL OTHERS) |
12:30-13:00 | LUNCH BREAK ON THE GO / IN THE PARK |
AFTERNOON
| Location: Dinamo10 Creative Hub R. Cândido dos Reis 20, 4900-082 Viana do Castelo, Portugal | |
| Side Event | |
| 13:00- 19:00 | EXCURSION TO VIANA DO CASTELO(organized bus transport, open to all but registration required) Visit to Dinamo 10 hub 13.00h – 14.00h trip to Viana 14.30h energizing welcome coffee 15.00h livestreamedRural hubs panel session 15.15h DINAMO10 presentation – Joana Carvalho (D10) 15.35h VIANA ABORDO and RURAL HUB MONTARIA presentation – Helder Teixeira (D10) 16.00h Agustin Jamardo (Anceu Coliving), Africa Rodriguez (Espacio Arroelo), Edo Sadikovic (Sende Coliving) Andy Arias (WOW Cowork) Helder Teixeira (Dinamo10) 17.00h D10 Visit 17.30h Farewell Cocktail 19.00h – 20.00h trip to Porto |
| 19:00 | DEPARTURE OF PARTICIPANTS |
Alastair Fuad-Luke
Moving beyond capitalocentric thinking is best achieved by re-framing the starting point of new projects or initiatives to enable experimentation and empathy with different forms of knowledge and practice. Design- and arts-based practices generate aesthetic experiences and opportunities to materialise plural worlds. These new material assemblages help create imaginaries of positive disruption.´
Miguel Herrera Gutierrez & Ana Ramos
Nurturing creativity and new narratives of innovation by working with nature, culture, art and tradition, Genalguacil Pueblo Museo began a process of repopulation through art in 1994 and it's been evolving since then. The point is to question and to re-define how we see rural areas beyond the hinterland of cities to spaces of new forms and practices of innovation.
Fani Kostourou & Diana Ibanez Lopez
In this joint talk, Fani Kostourou and Diana Ibáñez López explore the pedagogical experiments, collaborative working and transnational dialogues, taking place on the new MA Cities course at Central Saint Martins. The course considers the city and how we intervene in it through an artistic and practice-driven lens, and acts like a cross-disciplinary think-tank to explore new forms of city-making practices with students and lecturers across the world.
The lecture will focus on how the voice can be used to communicate, understand and challenge contemporary urban practices and ideas of space and spatial practice; how this forms the basis for students and practitioners to engage in conversations on social, climate and policy justice within the urban environment; and how a cohort of students can be at the same time independent practitioners on the course and work collectively to research and seed new forms of city-making.
Barbara Revelli
In 2045 the world as we know it will look very different. Although we cannot predict the future, we can shape it. FAST45 (Futures Art School Trends 2045) recognises the potential of the creativity and imaginative thinking nurtured and developed at art schools. developed at art schools. Together with the drive for innovation in society at large, this has inspired key players from higher arts education and business to join forces. The aim is to imagine and promote a future in which the arts and arts education play an integral role in a world radically reshaped by the 4th industrial revolution, globalisation and climate change.
Daphne Dragona
Numerous artworks and cultural projects nowadays question the imaginary of progress, highlighting the need to resist ongoing forms of exploitation. To which extent, though, does the art-world respect sustainability principles? A talk about challenges, contradictions, as well as about paradigms that point towards a different path of action.
For over 25 years, the Quarteirão de Miguel Bombarda has established itself as an epicenter of artistic and creative businesses in Porto. The spontaneous concentration of contemporary art galleries in the 90’s in this area triggered what is now an internationally recognized brand – Bombarda: Porto Creative District – a intertwined, lively and diverse melting pot with more than 178 establishments, in the areas of commerce, media and leisure services, culture and entertainment.
The entrance of new creative players has been contributing to the constant reinvention and revitalization of this area and feeding the aim of a more engaged, active and ambitious ecosystem that now assumes the form of a distributed creative hub.
Creative FLIP
The overall objective of this Preparatory Action, co-funded by the European Union, is to build a stronger resilience of the cultural and creative sector, by further strengthening the overall CCS ecosystem and supporting the capacities of its actors in the areas of Finance, Learning/Skills, Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights.
Building on the outcomes of the Pilot phase (2019-2021) and the success of its outputs such as the “So You Need Money Guide” and the Creatives Unite platform, the Creative FLIP consortium, led by the Goethe-Institut in partnership with the European Creative Hubs Network, IDEA consult, 3s Unternehmensberatung and Intellectual Property Institute Luxembourg, is further increasing its efforts in supporting the CCS actors in their search for relevant and latest information on financing and other opportunities for and by the sector.
ECHN Project
The European Creative Hubs Network Project activated a 3-year program coordinated by ECHN for the members of its network. This project has been funded since 2021 by Creative Europe, as one of the European networks supporting the cultural and creative sector.
The program aims at empowering creative hubs as main focal points for creative professionals and businesses. The central fronts of action include mobility opportunities for hub managers and community members, learning exchanges and workshops, advocacy at local and European level and academic research to highlight the role of creative hubs within the cultural and creative industries. Two annual meetups will gather members of the network, local stakeholders and international guest speakers. The first BAUTOPIA took place in June 2022; the second edition will travel to Porto in October, with the title “Glocalization in Culture & Creativity”.
The European Creative Hubs Network is a peer-led network with a mission to enhance the creative, economic and social impact of hubs around Europe and neighbouring countries.As focal points for creative professionals and businesses, hubs offer the most effective way to support the growth and development of cultural and creative industries.
In June 2022, ECHN successfully organised the first BAUTOPIA as a side event of The New European Bauhaus Festival in Brussels. The second edition is taking place in October under the title ‘Glocalization in Culture & Creativity’, this time at beautiful Porto. Artists, cultural professionals, researchers and policy makers from across Europe will meet to advocate, explore and share best practices in the CCS sector and unite in a safe place of cultural exchange.
With the support of
A Portuguese creative hub, located in Porto’s art district, CRU combines a co-working space focused on creative activities, an art gallery, photography and audio recording studios, a coffee bar, a coffee roastery and a designers’ shop on 400 m2 facilities. CRU strives to support an active, international, thriving community, while enhancing the individual potential of freelancers and solopreneurs from the CCS in an environment appropriate for artistic creation, productivity, networking and collaborations.
UPTEC
UPTEC – Science and Technology Park of University of Porto supports the creation and development of business projects in the arts, sciences and technologies, through sharing knowledge between the university and the market. For its community members it provides a co-working and meeting space.
This co-working space located in one of Portugal’s rural areas serves the small but vibrant creative community of Viana do Castelo. Dinamo10 has established the concept of collaborative work among members as the main source of innovation, creativity and professional growth and is working on 3 main areas: D10 Residencies (multidisciplinary focus), D10 Services (multidisciplinary team delivering value to corporate and public sector) and D10 Mentoring (for students and young entrepreneurs), all focused towards a co-creation approach.
