After an introduction to the exercise, participants will break into 5 working groups of their choosing. Each group will answer three main questions with regard to a specific value framework:
- How to break down or phase out the unsustainable practices?
- How to build up or accelerate promising experiments, sustainable practices?
- Which actors (and on which levels) have responsibilities or can play an active role in making the transition happen?
Note that each participant is kindly required to read the working paper related to their working group before joining the online brainstorm. You can find the working paper of your value frame below each group description.
Group 1: Human values
How to move from a situation where there are so many pressures on people, to a situation where the human fundament of our sector is being respected?
This group will discuss how to make a transition towards a sustainable future where the people in the ecosystem – the artists and art workers – are strengthened with regards to the development of their careers, their socio-economic position, their working conditions, inclusion, access and recognition.
Read the working paper on Human Values
Group 2: Social values
How to break out of our social bubbles and develop sustainable and long-term connections to people outside of our current networks?
This group will brainstorm on how to strengthen the social connections of the performing arts, paying attention to several elements such as all these co-verbs (to connect, to collaborate, to co-project, to co-create or to common), the societal impact and the way we develop networks with communities and audiences, etc.
Read the working paper on Social Values
Group 3: Artistic values
How to create a future situation where the intrinsic artistic and cultural value are widely regarded and valued as a factor for personal and societal development?
This group will not only look into the intrinsic values of the performing arts within society, but also into the instruments to ensure that there are necessary conditions for artists and organisations to develop and create this value.
Read the working paper on Artistic Values
Group 4: Ecological values
How to create a future situation where the ecological impact of our work is respecting the boundaries of our natural ecosystem?
Based on the discussion that we started during the first workshop on the impact of materials and energy that we use when developing, producing and presenting our work, participants will discuss the means to make the future of performing arts more ecologically sustainable and transform a vision into a daily practice.
Read the working paper on Ecological Values
Group 5: Economic values
How to create a future situation where the economic resources in our sector are fairly distributed, creating the right conditions for other values to flourish?
This group will discuss how to ensure that economic resources are fairly distributed among ourselves in the performing arts ecosystem and that the future economic practices in the performing arts field will provide the right and necessary conditions for all actors in the field to pursue their artistic, social, human and ecological values.
