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CREATIVE LAB
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MULTIDISCIPLINARY INITIATIVES
Académie Internationale d’Eté de Wallonie - the International Summer Academy has been organising artistic and cultural activities for forty-two years. Every year, more than 2,000 participants from many different countries take part in a large number of workshops that mix beginners with the experienced in the areas of music, dance, theatre, cinema, and plastic arts. [www.akdt.be] YXC
Ad!dict Creative Lab - is a creative laboratory uniting about 4.000 creatives from all over the world and from 32 disciplines. Are you a young, talented designer, photographer, musician, etc.? Do you think that your skills could help companies embracing sustainable design principles? Do you love mixing different creative disciplines? If so, contact Ad!dict Lab’s people, and good luck! [www.addictlab.com] YXC
Creative Latitude is a worldwide community that unites various creative disciplines for collective promotion, education and ethical business practice. For those imaginative souls who are called 'creatives', this site provides a place for you to promote your practice. You'll also find a network of like-minded friends from all over this spinning rock we call Earth. [www.creativelatitude.com]
Creative Exchange - provides support to individuals and organisations working on development and human rights issues through using TV, film radio, video, drama, music, dance, puppetry, visual arts and crafts, photography, publishing, creative writing and storytelling. [www.creativexchange.org]
Crossmind.net – “We want to share or experiences with everybody interested on design topic. We do not intend to gain a ‘guru’ status. We simply want to make our opinion heard and give others an opportunity to share their point of view.” Experienced designers with good writing skills may also apply for editor rights and be able to post issues. [www.crossmind.net]
designfeast.com is a growing webliography dedicated to gathering and providing potentially usable content on the family of design disciplines: architecture, fashion, graphic, industrial, interactive, interior, lighting, sustainable, universal, urban, et al. [www.designfeast.com]
Design for the World - design is usually considered irrelevant to people in the third world, in emergency situations or in situations of social exclusion. Design for the World’s statement is that people disadvantaged by poverty, war, disability, age or environmental conditions deserve equal access to practical design solutions that will improve their day-to-day lives. [www.designfortheworld.org] YXC
Design Show - is an online community to help designers promote their work and share information. This site is edited on a daily basis by its many members. Who bring together news, events, options, while exhibiting their often stunning design work. [www.designshow.co.uk]
Koo's Art Café - is a US community gathering place where disenfranchised youth can explore ways to use the expressive arts to embrace discord without violence. Over 60,000 youth (age 12-18) have participated in programs that use break dance, graffiti, art exhibitions, lectures, and public performances of music, poetry and comedy. [www.koos.org]
Fabrica - is the Benetton Research & Development Communication Centre. Fabrica supports the creative development of young artists/researchers from all over the world. After a tough selection process, Fabrica invites young artists to participate in a range of communication activities: cinema, graphics, design and music, as part of Colors Magazine, or in multimedia and photography. [www.fabrica.it] YXC
Factor of Ten - through the presentation of aesthetically powerful forms of expression, Factor of Ten engages people both emotionally and intellectually with ideas about the environment, and in particular the need to reduce energy and material consumption by a factor of ten if Australia is to achieve a sustainable future. [www.anu.edu.au/factoroften/index.php]
International Centre for Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability (ICIS) - is an educational platform for the future, facilitating shifts in perception through ongoing circles of exchange. It educates creative professionals in the concept of sustainability, and how to implement its principles. [www.iciscenter.org]
Institute for Creative Sustainability – aims to explore, demonstrate, communicate and publicize linkages between culture, ecology, economy and community, through educational activities and events, networks and the transfer of experiences and best practices. [www.creative-sustainability.net/institute.html]
Next Generation Designers Prize (NGDP) - have a big idea that you want to translate into reality? Then Metropolis’s NGDP is for you. Created to jump-start entrepreneurial design projects, the competition is open to any designer who has been working for ten years or less. Projects that reflect thinking about sustainability, universal access, and new technology are encouraged, and submissions may come from multiple disciplines, including architecture, interior design, industrial design, experience design, communication design, and urban planning. [www.metropolismag.com/cda/subsection.php?secid=6&subsecid=10]
Project - a new British national funding scheme jointly supported by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) and Arts & Business (A&B). It aims to create a shared vision for public space, planning and high quality urban design; and engage artists, public agencies and the private sector in projects that will have a positive impact on the places in which we live. [www.project-awards.org.uk]
Recyclart - is a non-profit organisation operating in Brussels, Belgium. It currently functions as an artistic laboratory, a creative centre for cultural confrontation, an actor in the municipal public arena, a training centre and a place for meeting and experimentation. Its approach cuts across the standard box mentality, seeking a balance between artistic, social and urban aspects. [www.recyclart.be] YXC
Red dot design award - with over 4,000 entries from 40 countries, the red dot design award ranks among the largest design competitions worldwide. The competition is divided into three sections - product design, communication design and concept design…[www.red-dot.de]
Social Design Notes: Design + Activism - this web log is a collection of notes on the built environment, graphic design, product design, architecture, the decisions we make, and the impact they have. Well written, fun to read - and relevant. [www.backspace.com/notes/index.php]
Strangefruits is a place where you can spot remarkable art-sites. Online art-hoppings guide you to the most interesting and striking art sites, galleries and artists on the internet. [www.strangefruits.nl]
Sustainable Style Foundation (SSF) - “Look fabulous, live well, do good” – they claim. SSF is an international non-profit organisation that uses the combined power of popular culture and personal lifestyle choices to address the many pressing social and environmental challenges facing our world. [www.sustainablestyle.org/home.html] YXC
High Beam Festival is Australia’s biennial international arts festival, showcasing contemporary works influenced or inspired by experience of disability. This ten day multi-arts festival presents the latest in disability arts – new perceptions, innovations and visions. High Beam is the largest festival of its type in the Southern Hemisphere and offers a spectacular program of music, comedy, theatre, dance, art, debate, workshops and community events. [highbeamfestival.org.au]
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