Collaboration with the Center for Music Ecosystems

Center for Music Ecosystems: Music Policy Resilience Lab

The project is the second phase in the collaboration between the partners, and builds further on the comprehensive report “Defining Resilience in Remote Music Ecosystems” (2022), which includes a policy toolkit and a set of recommendations to strengthen local music ecosystems and their connections to ensure survival and sustainability in small, medium and geographically isolated communities.

The Music Policy Resilience Lab will put the recommendations from the report into practice with local, regional and international partners and experts.

The project includes 11 communities from Greenland to Northern Canada, Southwest United States to Central Asia and across the Nordics, who participate in six Labs from March 2023 to April 2024.

The project aims to further resilience in places that are, in some way, geographical outliers, facing various sociological, geographical, economic—or simply logistical—challenges to incorporating music and culture into strategic objectives, but united in their desire to advance their music ecosystems to their fullest potential.

More specifically, the aim is to:

• Raise awareness about the impact of music in remote communities
• Deliver specific, actionable best practices for each participating community
• Deliver specific, actionable recommendations for the network as a whole, that link music as a tool to foster local resilience
• Create unique cultural and government links between disparate communities, that have never before existed