17.09.2015 - 18.09.2015

Baltic Sea Cultural Gathering: The Cultural Innovations LAB: 4BalticS

Baltic Sea Cultural Gathering:

The Cultural Innovations LAB: 4BalticS

17–18 September 2015

The Baltic Sea Cultural Centre, 33/35 Korzenna St., Gdańsk

Key enquiry – In what ways do you (your organization?) meet the (existing and) anticipated future challenges of your region through your cultural work?
The activities throughout the Lab are based on interspersed case studies presentations by experts invited to the LAB and workshop activities.

The experts and participants are asked to base their answers to this question on concrete cases and tools in the context of the five themes of the conference i.e. Culture & Social Innovation, Culture & Education, Culture & Sustainability, Culture & Entrepreneurship, Culture & Smart Cities.

If we are to be more than just another (imagined) economically hi-jacked vehicle of growth;
If we want culture to take a more central position, we have to „step up”, be more innovative,
more inventive, more creative. The Cultural Innovations LAB: 4BalticS will be looking for practical examples of innovation leading to the future collaboration projects for Baltic Sea Region.

PROGRAMME


THURSDAY 17 September

16.00–16.30
Intro/bridging from the conference to the workshop by Oleg Koefoed


16.30–17.30
The part where Oleg Koefoed goes in depth with Eco Island as an approach and tool, related to the gap between complex, globalized life, and smart technology on the one hand, and the complexity increase created by the growth of new human-technology-interfaces, aimed at solving the complex problems.

Linking this issue directly to the Eco Island methodology, we invite the participants to explore how the tool can deal with the gap/complexity issue, and how culture can help bridge the gap and make complexity more livable. How can we for instance, develop new technologies to strengthen the method, and how can the method help us understand the relation between technology and sustainable life?

17.30–17.45
 break

17.45–18.45
2 presentations of tools that the participants use to meet the overall challenges that they see and the aims of their organization in the context that they work in – 10 minutes per presentation:

  • Magdalena Zakrzewska-Duda, Peter Wołkowiński, the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre in Gdańsk, Poland
    The Baltic House LAB 2015 – Culture in Social Action
  • Agnieszka Cichocka, the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre in Gdańsk, Poland
    Intercultural Comic Drawing Workshops – Culture for Integration

each presentation followed by an „enhancing innovation” workshop session (20 minutes) led by Agnieszka Wlazel

18.45–19.00
Wrapping up and linking to the second day

FRIDAY 18 September
Case studies + an „enhancing innovation” workshop sessions continue

9.00–12.30
5 presentations (10 minutes per presentation) followed by workshop sessions (20 minutes per session) led by Agnieszka Wlazel

  • Jadwiga Charzyńska, Director, Centre for Contemporary Art „Laznia”
    The role of contemporary art as exemplified by the ART+SCIENCE MEETING, the project organized by Łaźnia CCA from 2011
  • Janne Koski, Rauma Art Museum, Rauma, Finland
    Flower power and crime scene – retracing the future through contemporary art
  • Sarita Sharma, Media Producer, Kinematon Berlin, Germany
    Baltic Warriors – a cultural approach to environmental policy making and citizen empowerment
  • Anette Splieth, Art Advisory Board, Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Konzepte e.V., Kiel, Germany
    The Ice House Network and the Climate Change Diary
  • Iwona Preis, Director European Resource Center for Culture, Intercult, Stockholm, Sweden
    Access Europa: Intercult in projects and networks

12.30–13.30
break

13.30 – 14.30
2 presentations (10 minute s each) followed by two workshop sessions led by Agnieszka Wlazel

  • Jekaterina Lavrinec, PhDVilnius Gediminas Technical University, Faculty of Creative Industries / NGO „Laimikis.lt”, laboratory for urban games and research.
    Arranging places for sharing: on participatory planning and design-based approach
  • Antra Priede, LCCA, Riga, Latvia
    Place with no space

14.30 – 16.00
Summing up workshop session Cultural innovation Lab’s contribution to the Conference’s „4BalticS: from recommendations towards future cultural practice” run by Agnieszka Wlazel

16.00–17.00
Internal expert meeting