14 projects received funding in the first Open Call in the Fund’s Globus programme. You can read more about the granted projects here.
How can craft & design shape the future & social landscape in the African continent? The Craft & Design pop up academy prototype will address how experimentation with ancient techniques, new materials and disruptive approaches can improve the peri-urban environment and sharpen our social consciousness.
Three performing arts productions each challenge the boundaries between the local and the global in their own way.
The objective of Ecologists at Risk (ER) is to open the 1st independent Residency at Aki Aora, Mexico for at-risk ecologists. ER is a next-gen residency programme at the intersection of environmental activism and art/culture.
The project works towards the Green Transition: engaging people, developing low-cost, locally sourced sustainable solutions, and using traditional knowledge and collective creativity to transform their immediate environment in greener ways.
Through Finnish-Nepali-Mauritius partnership, the project contributes to local and global understandings of traditional music practices, their contemporary artistic possibilities, and their contribution to non-formal and formal music education practices locally and globally from the perspective of cultural and social sustainability.
The project “Urgent Situation” promotes horizontal exchange of knowledge, ideas and methods between the creative field and the sustainable tourism industry. The aim is to investigate and convey how artists, architects and other creative actors can play a central role in the development of the tourism sector in a world with a growing focus on the environment, sustainability and local communities.
A performance-led research project setting out to investigate new digital business models and markets for contemporary performance.
With Mexico as its case, this project explores innovative artistic methods to develop technological tools in favour of women exposed to social constraints and systemic violence.
The project sets a new vision of how disability works through technology to create a new normative.
‘Now Soon Over’ aims to unite young and newly established cultural institutions in a network to foster exchange of knowledge and experience.
A long-term networking and exchange programme between artists and cultural operators from the Nordic Region and the African continent, wishing to influence cultural representation on world art scenes.
A project aiming to establish a transcontinental network for knowledge sharing between artists and cultural agents from the USVI, Ghana, Greenland and the Nordic region, instigating new North-South and South-South knowledge infrastructures
A collaborative project sparking interactions with independent shops at risk of gentrification by revitalizing the shops’ visual identities and enabling them to thrive.
What kind of role can art and its methods play in just sustainability transformations? ‘Seeds for Solidarity’ sows seeds for global climate justice through supporting creative collaborations around sustainability that challenge Westernized ways of knowing and doing.
Voice is fundamental to our sense of identity and participation in the world. The SENSORIUM project brings together arts, technology, and community-driven co-creation to generate new possibilities for developing creative and authentic expressions of voice, in all its forms – physical, social, cultural, and democratic.
Simiyya is a platform for research and cultural production, focusing on the way cultural-geographical contexts impact how technology shapes politics and aesthetics, as well as how to form a future based on new economic and psychic models.
A play and a border-breaking project between two different theatres, cities and societies.
The project ‘Unfolding the Universe’ investigates the role of art biennials in reviving and expanding existing networks through an extensively collaborative program.