CYANOTYPES and the European Creative Hubs Network (ECHN) are launching Creative Skills Week 2023 an essential destination for creatives, producers, leaders, cultural workers, managers, educators, crafters, grafters, changemakers and dreamers, who care about what the future holds for creative skills development.
By Creatives Unite NewsroomFor the first time, the cultural and creative industries are being addressed as an industrial ecosystem. The issue of skills gaps and needs is a critical concern for stakeholders from all corners of the Creative and Cultural Industries Sectors (CCIS). In this context CYANOTYPES and the European Creative Hubs Network (ECHN) is launching the first ever CREATIVE SKILLS WEEK gathering strategic-thinkers, policymakers, cultural workers and networks, creative and artistic practitioners together to co-create plans addressing urgent and future skills needs.
Anticipating Creative Futures
Anticipating Creative Futures is a boundary-breaking programme of activities and actions and the main feature of Creative Skills Week 2023, powered by CYANOTYPES and the European Creative Hubs Network. Join creative thinkers, CCIS strategists and educators and actively participate in Anticipating Creative Futures workshops and plenaries. Get social at the evening receptions and be part of this growing momentum and fuel a sustainable CCIS ecosystem.
Host your own event
Collaborate, co-create and commune in new, unique and innovative ways. Host an event as part of Creative Skills Week 2023. Submit your proposal for activities, projects, or events (either in-person or online).
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Event: 10-13 October 2023 Vienna, Austria and online
We are all works in progress, blueprints that are continuously being revised and updated.
CYANOTYPES brings together a wide variety of organisations, stakeholders, and European networks to address the needs and skills gaps in the Cultural & Creative Industries. Based on innovative multidisciplinary approaches, CYANOTYPES tackles the sector’s potential for innovation and competitiveness, which deals as well with challenges presented by, among others, COVID-19, the digital transition, and the green shift.
The project title* references the iron-based photographic process that led to the term “blueprint” we know today. Inspired by this key moment of innovation, CYANOTYPES sees in this very practice an exemplary episode from the pre-digital archive of arts-and-technology experimentation that inspires creators to this day. Invoking a pre-digital technology, CYANOTYPES cautions that “the digital” is itself in a moment of transition, offering us new possibilities and perspectives. While we anticipate growing roles for AI, Big Data, and synthetic content generated by data-driven systems in the immediate future, we also see the need to imagine multiple futures on which innovation in CCI education depends.
Earlier projects indicated that advancing vocational education programs should follow the guiding principle that the “Community is the Curriculum”, moving on from the idea of a wholly centralised, institutional approach to learning.
CYANOTYPES builds anticipation into its methodological framework to empower creators to imagine multiple futures and to make their processes more environmental-friendly, sustainable, resilient, and dynamic.
Organised by a triple loop learning framework focused on how we “learn how to learn”, CYANOTYPES’ integrates specific and transversal skill sets organised by key thematic areas to serve as context-specific points for different stakeholder groups. CYANOTYPES provides short- and longer-term strategic interventions and concrete skills development solutions that can be adopted across the European CCI ecosystem.
*The project title CYANOTYPES references the iron-based photographic process that gave the name to the "blueprint" we know today. Inspired by this key moment of innovation, CYANOTYPES sees in this very practice an exemplary episode from the pre-digital archive of arts-and-technology experimentation that inspires creators to this day.
