Creativity Pioneers

Creatives thrive in cities, and cities move, change, and grow with the creative minds they host. Urban landscapes are shaped by creative practices rooted in local communities, which can lead to transformative urban agendas with increasing attention to sustainability and inclusion. This happens because of people, collaboration, and experimentation, at the individual and institutional levels, often across borders.

Welcome to Creativity Pioneers, a podcast by Moleskine Foundation. Today’s episode was recorded during the last Milano Design Week in a panel discussion on how creative minds and talents contribute to social and economic changes in global cities, focusing on emerging markets and economies. And why this is seriously worth investing in.
With:

• Gabriella Gómez-Mont, former CMO of Mexico City and Founder of Experimentalista
• Marta Foresti, Founder and CEO of LAGO and Visiting Senior Fellow ODI
• Linda Di Pietro, Artistic Director of BASE
• Marcus Desando, Director of the Prince Claus Fund
• Emilia Terragni, Associate Publisher at Phaidon Press

The event was in partnership with ODI, Lago, and BASE.

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“How can we contribute as an Afro-global Art institution to a regenerative art ecosystem? How can we not be extractive of collection, capital, people, how do we navigate the paradigm of ownership, how can we create a more equitable and regenerative ecosystem?” asks Ngaire Blankenberg, director of the Smithsonian Museum of African Art. Through her vision of the complexities of identity, she reflects on her position in one of the biggest cultural institutions in the world for African Art to create an accessible and durable Art ecosystem for the generations to come. KEYWORDS: Institutional - Global Africa - Regeneration Website: https://www.si.edu/about/bios/ngaire-blankenberg

Episode recorded during our Creativity Pioneers Instagram Live Conversation.
"Creativity is a kind of transcendent energy, very connected with positive thinking. And it's a powerful element that allows us to make positive, great things - said Carlo Stanga, architect, award-winning illustrator, cities traveller and observer - We have to give creativity the right direction, the positive direction to a change that is in the best way: the main aim of creativity is to change the world, even small changes, but altogether, these changes are making great change."

Enjoy Carlo Stanga’s provocative talk about the urgent needs of new perspectives on ourselves and the world around us, based on self-awareness and knowledge: only investing more time and energy into observation, deepening things and elaborating, we can access new sources of inspiration enabling our creative process.
@carlo_stanga on Instagram

Website: https://www.carlostanga.com/

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"It's about creating spaces of thought, spaces of reflection, spaces of deliberation, spaces in which we can disagree, in which you can dismantle things, in which you can build things, spaces in which we can commune, in which we can just look at each other, listen to each other and acknowledge each other's presence" said Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, independent curator, author, and biotechnologist, founder and artistic director – among many cultural institutions - of SAVVY Contemporary, an independent project space in Berlin that situates itself on the threshold between concepts of the West and non-West, to understand and deconstruct them. Enjoy his provocative journey through the contemporary art system, dismantling the art curator's traditional aura and moving towards a sense of communion and exchange with the people he worked with, with a strong vision of directing like an orchestra conductor. KEYWORDS: Communion - De-canonization – Creative process Website: https://savvy-contemporary.com/

Episode recorded during our Creativity Pioneers Instagram Live Conversation.
"Let's use the answer of creativity and curiosity to stay alive. I’m still alive because I'm curious. I think that's the only thing. I think that's the only answer because I'm creating something different – said artist Joël Andrianomearisoa - It's like reading a book. We have the book of our life and we have to create a different rhythm on this book”.

Joël Andrianomearisoa talks about the power of emotions and the plurality of curiosity to nurture his creativity, moving reflections from his sources of inspiration to his role as an artist in society, and much more.

@studiojoelandrianomearisoa on Twitter

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