Selected programmes of the Centre for Creativity 2017–2022
May 27–October 2, 2022
Creativity and culture, with their sensitivity and critical agenda, as well as constant questioning and doubting, challenge existing realities and co-create the conditions for progress and change, thus forming the foundations of our society. Today, two decades after the creative industries agenda entered European policies and Member States’ development measures, the role of the creative industries in the European Union is almost self-evident. The question is no longer why support this sector, but rather how to empower it to realise its potential and ensure that its effects continue to co-create wider social progress. In fact, numerous studies have shown that while it is a sector with a great intangible value, it also stimulates the creation of new content and develops competences for the professions of the future, while adding value to other sectors and promoting sustainable development.
In order to achieve these goals, the Museum of Architecture and Design in 2017, at the invitation of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, established the Centre for Creativity (CzK)—an interdisciplinary platform aimed at the development and promotion of the cultural and creative sector in Slovenia, as well as its integration with the economy and other sectors. CzK manages diverse programmes for the development of innovative products and services, organises and promotes training, internationalisation, networking, research, online content, and promotion. Together with the Ministry of Culture’s calls for proposals to promote the creative industries, it supports projects that emerge at the intersection of different creative fields and entrepreneurship and contribute to economic and social progress.
In its almost five years of operation, CzK has organised more than 500 programmes aimed at developing the sector, and recorded 248,000 participations of creators, creative businesses, self-employed freelancers, private and non-governmental organisations, and other visitors. Of these, almost 500 companies and several thousand creators were involved in specific programmes. Supported by the Ministry’s calls for proposals and by the CzK they are developing over 200 innovative products and services, maintaining over 50 collaborations between creators and companies from other economy sectors, and are funding 62 new jobs in creative enterprises. To date, over 100 Slovenian creators and entrepreneurs were represented at more than 60 exhibitions and events in 24 countries around the world.
The current exhibition, Created in Slovenia, looks back at the first period of the platform’s operation and presents a selection of some of the Centre for Creativity’s most important programmes. The CzK, together with its established partner network and many other partners, connects and supports thousands of creators, artists, self-employed freelancers in culture, creative entrepreneurs, organisations, associations, and institutions across different areas of the sector. On display are the works and projects of a vibrant and creative community whose common denominator is its capacity to create change in society and to think differently, inclusively, and sustainably.
As part of BIO27 Supervernacular, whose production platform and accompanying programme is produced by the Centre for Creativity, the Curkrarna Palace will host three different international exhibitions, The Ideal Eating Experience (Kathrina Dankl in collaboration with Vienna Design Week and Vienna Business Agency), The School of the Untold (Design Campus in collaboration with German Design Graduates and the Goethe Institute) and DNA of Things (Marcin Rusak), which deal with alternatives to the existing systems and show how an experimental and interdisciplinary process enables creative research and innovation, making social and entrepreneurial innovation happen in the first place.
Opening times: Tuesday to Sunday, 10am–6pm
In the 2017 to 2022 period, the Centre for Creativity project is co-financed by the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Slovenia.
The BIO 27 accompanying exhibitions are co-organised with: Goethe Institute, Austrian Cultural Forum Ljubljana and Vienna Business Agency.
Contact
Centre for Creativity, Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO)
Rusjanov trg 7, 1000 Ljubljana
T +386 (0)41 381 858 / media [at] czk.si
