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Thecommonsinc. Exploring Community Resilience. Musagetes. OMA. OMA is a leading international partnership practicing architecture, urbanism, and cultural analysis. OMA's buildings and masterplans around the world insist on intelligent forms while inventing new possibilities for content and everyday use. OMA is led by six partners - Rem Koolhaas, Ellen van Loon, Reinier de Graaf, Shohei Shigematsu, Iyad Alsaka, and David Gianotten - and sustains an international practice with offices in Rotterdam, New York, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Doha. OMA-designed buildings currently under construction include the Taipei Performing Arts Centre; three buildings in Doha, Qatar; the Bibliothèque Multimédia à Vocation Régionale, a four-story public library in Caen; and Bryghusprojektet in Copenhagen, a mixed-use project accommodating the new headquarters for the Danish Architecture Centre.

The counterpart to OMA's architectural practice is AMO, a research studio based in Rotterdam. Selection of current OMA and AMO projects: OMA History. John Knechtel. Alphabet City. McGill. The Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI) is about thinking big, challenging boundaries, and building bridges. A collaboration led by researchers in seven faculties and schools at McGill, IPLAI is a leader in innovative, interdisciplinary research and teaching in the humanities that reorients the university toward the world. We engage local, national, and international publics in creative thinking about important questions, bring artists into collaboration with researchers, develop opportunities for creative teaching and learning, and involve students as active partners in major collaborative undertakings beyond the classroom.

IPLAI is re-energizing the study of human history, culture, thought and creativity by expanding and multiplying the contexts and communities of humanities research. We believe that the modern university has not only the capacity but the responsibility to be forward-looking, pro-active, and socially-engaged. Sara Myles CFC. OneEarth.org - ECO. Natural Step. Sustainability Transition Lab. We live in a time of great uncertainty, complexity, and unprecedented systemic challenges. There is growing recognition that addressing complex sustainability challenges requires unprecedented collaboration and new ways of working across sectors and across scales.

What is a Sustainability Transition Lab? The Sustainability Transition Lab (STL) is an approach to tackling these complex social and environmental challenges. It blends The Natural Step’s expertise in designing and facilitating transformational change towards sustainability with leading approaches to multi-stakeholder collaboration. The process is intended to build capacity in a group of diverse stakeholders to tackle “wicked” sustainability challenges and create breakthrough solutions by learning to think, work, and innovate together differently. What does the name Sustainability Transition Lab mean? We use the term sustainability because our labs focus on issues where there is a clear desire to create a sustainable future state. CRC Research. Shrivastava. ARTEM - ICN. « Ouverture d'esprit et Créativité pour un travail commun efficace entre futurs Artistes, Ingénieurs et Managers » Qu'est-ce qu'ARTEM ? Alliance entre Mines Nancy, l'École nationale supérieure d'art de Nancy et ICN Business School.

Objectifs de l'Alliance : Relier tout en distinguant, les hommes (artistes, ingénieurs et commerciaux), les disciplines (art, science et technologie, management), relier les savoir-faire (savoir créer, produire, valoriser et négocier) pour former la nouvelle génération de décideurs et de créateurs, pour créer de nouvelles connaissances interdisciplinaires. Concrètement, ARTEM c'est : David O’Brien Centre. Janice Astbury. British Council. Our global arts team works with the best of British creative talent to develop innovative, high-quality events and collaborations with artists and cultural institutions around the world.

Architecture, Design, Fashion Creative Economy Cultural Skills Film Literature Music Theatre and Dance Visual Arts. Brueninger stiftung. “It cannot be said that things get better when they change.But if they are to get better, they must change.” Georg Christoph Lichtenberg We see ourselves faced with powerful challenges: the problems arising from climate change, the financial crisis and growing poverty can no longer be solved within the “classical” structures of politics and administration alone. What is needed is a process of rethinking, new approaches and more commitment from all involved. We are convinced that we can effect this necessary change only as a civil society. We work on a local, national and international basis and cooperate with people who have set out to foster integrated, sustainable and interlinked ways of thinking and acting.

We invest in the ability of people to learn, to cooperate and to lead. Spacing. Matthew Blackett. Institut du Nouveau Monde Social Innovation Profile. Arts-Policy Nexus.