Visions of a Transnational artistic and cultural field
Imagining a cultural and art world beyond borders
Experience a landscape of visions crafted by practitioners, where preferable scenarios inspire and guide the future evolution of transnational arts and culture.
When the world is in turmoil, ensuring the ability of art and culture to transcend borders and look beyond fixed categories is more important than ever. In order to create a more equitable and sustainable ground for these connections to unfold, it is crucial that systems can be rethought based on the perspectives and lived experiences of the practitioners themselves.
This website is home to a series of insights and visions created during workshops and knowledge sharing activities within the Nordic Culture Fund's funding initiative Globus during 2023-2024. An important aim of the initiative has been to develop a more trust-based and open-ended approach to funding transnational collaborations, supported by ongoing learning and knowledge building activities.
During 2023, 14 projects participated in a series of knowledge sharing activities online, resulting in a series of insights collected in a Knowledge Report launched in early 2024. These insights also created the foundation of a physical Hackathon in June 2024, where 21 practitioners from the granted projects coming from different parts of the globe got together to envision the international culture and arts field 12 years into the future - in 2036.
With the knowledge gained through the Globus initiative we hope to inspire new conversations about future practices and ways to support international programmes both within and outside the Nordics. We see that it illustrates the significance that artisitic and cultural exchanges across geographies and cultural contexts hold - especially in current times.
Click on each vision landscape to explore the future scenarios co-created at the Globus Hackathon in June 2024.