9th December / 11th December
I’m in.
Let’s not forget though that the 11th of December there is also the deadline for the EU Social Innovation Prize - that is if we still want to apply (again).
I want to stress a couple of things, before we go for it: this stuff is about culture. Here you can find the projects which were voted last year. We have to describe the unMon as something that enables a process which they are aiming at: 1) foster positive dinamics which come from the networking of skills of different cultural enterprises 2) support cultural enterprises to find new business models which are economically and socially sustainable.
How it works?
- eligibility: no profit, low profit or profit organizations. Edgeryders and the Committee MT2019 are eligible.
- fields: the project has to operate in the following fields: litterature, music, theatre, dance, painting, cinema, video, photography, plastic art, performing arts, editing, philosophy, pedagogy, psicology, sociology, anthropology.
- content: unfortunately you cannot past the first page of the online form unless you fill in all the blanks. The info which is needed on the first page is: title / abstact (2500 characters) / max 3 fields related to project (architecture, sociology, open data, ecc.) / external links to website. After they ask you stuff on the proposing organization. 3 images related to the activity of the lead partner's activites.
- friend organization: the partners which are organizing the call are known both by MT2019 and Edgeryders: Avanzi (davideagazzi), Fondazione Ahref (worked with Damien Lanfrey and Donatella Solda), Fondazione Fitzcarraldo (Alessandro Bollo and Franco Bianchini of MT2019 Committee), Tafter (MT2019), Societing (Alex Giordano, close to RENA, MT2019 and Edgeryders). Don't know if this can count in something, but just thought it would be important to mention it.
I’m off limits until the 18th of November (the jury for MT2019 is this Wednesday: yikes!), but after that I am willing to take the lead on this. It would be of great help if in the meanwhile we could collect some brainstorming on strong ideas for which the unMon is related to fostering new ways of doing culture.
Here are some first scattered ideas to start with:
- The unMonastery is like an artistic residency, but for people who want to solve local problems in a local community in collaboration with the local inhabitants: it can be a start up, a new civically mind tool, a robot, a game,... whatever.
- The unMonastery is a creative refuge for social innovators which offers them the opportunity to research, experiment, produce and test pre-market or non market products which emerge in relationship to local context.
- The unMonastic line of conduct sets out a series of principles which link the residency experience to a wider vision of how to have a cultural impact through social innovation: the unHagiography is there to orient daily life style, reflections on 200 project-design, resilience, parsimonious use of local resources.
- The unMonastery is a cultural process which enables skilled, committed unMonastarians to dedicate themselves to the resolution of local problems by linking their personal resources to those of the hosting community: enterprises, associations, schools and neighbours will progressively be involved in the process and learn a new approach to problem solving and change making by taking part in it.
- The unMonastary is designed for replicability
- Tools produced by and for unMonastery: prospective guidebook for building a 200 year project, evolutive toolbox, open design principles for unMonastic utensiles and clothes, parametric design principles for unMonastic furniture, unMonastery radio
- Projects which can explain the cultural impact of the unMonastery through social innovation: designer-in-residency program (online and offline) for the objects (with the local crafts) and the spaces (online with the ER community and offline with local associations), ...
- The unMonastery can count on the backup of 2 online platforms (Edgeryders and MT2019), 1 physical space (Palazzo del Casale) and a local community which is being built around the unMonastery
- can we have 5 videos of the lucky unMonastarians by the 9th of December
- update the unMonastery website in Italian
- 100K management: although this will be a tough one, I propose to secure with the Committee that if ever we win the prize, it is all devoted to the management and development of the unMonastery in Matera