From climate change to social justice to racial equity and gender identity, Creativity and Culture are playing a critical role in solving the main issues affecting the planet. But creativity practitioners worldwide are isolated, undervalued, and overlooked as changemakers.   How can creative brands convene a new discourse on creativity's role in galvanizing Social Change? How can they inspire, amplify, support, and develop the vision to create a better future for the new generations?    Welcome to Creativity Pioneers, a podcast by Moleskine Foundation).   Today's episode wa ..read more

Creatives thrive in cities, and cities move, change, and grow with the creative minds they host. Urban landscapes are shaped by creative practices rooted in local communities, which can lead to transformative urban agendas with increasing attention to sustainability and inclusion. This happens because of people, collaboration, and experimentation, at the individual and institutional levels, often across borders.   Welcome to Creativity Pioneers, a podcast by Moleskine Foundation. Today’s episode was recorded during the last Milano Design Week in a panel discussion on how creative minds a ..read more

"An institution should be an echo, a magnifier for the relationship between art and viewer. Curating is a collective project." Elvira Dyangani Ose, Director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and the first Black woman to take on the position, is aiming to change the European cultural landscape through curating projects for the people. In her new journey as the head of one of Spain’s most important museums, she still believes in putting the beauty of art first. Keywords: Historymaking, Togetherness, Relation @edyanganiose on Twitter and Instagram Website: www.macba.cat ..read more

"Let's use the answer of creativity and curiosity to stay alive. I’m still alive because I'm curious. I think that's the only thing. I think that's the only answer because I'm creating something different – said artist Joël Andrianomearisoa - It's like reading a book. We have the book of our life and we have to create a different rhythm on this book”. Joël Andrianomearisoa talks about the power of emotions and the plurality of curiosity to nurture his creativity, moving reflections from his sources of inspiration to his role as an artist in society, and much more. @studiojoelandrianomearisoa o ..read more

“Creativity can give us some therapeutic and balsamic power; we can express our creativity and share with the others and be inspired by others, like a chain. And I am happy to belong to this universe of art and always researching, always being curious about things - said Rossy De Palma, polyhedric artist, actress and muse - This social change with this creativity weapon is me.” Get inspired by Rossy De Palma’s talk about the healing and contagious power of art, the importance of self-care and love to enter a spectacular creative process, and the artist's role vision in our society. @RossyDPalm ..read more

"Creativity is a kind of transcendent energy, very connected with positive thinking. And it's a powerful element that allows us to make positive, great things - said Carlo Stanga, architect, award-winning illustrator, cities traveller and observer - We have to give creativity the right direction, the positive direction to a change that is in the best way: the main aim of creativity is to change the world, even small changes, but altogether, these changes are making great change." Enjoy Carlo Stanga’s provocative talk about the urgent needs of new perspectives on ourselves and the world around ..read more

"I define myself as a designer… It's not necessarily only a problem to solve, but really figuring out frameworks and rules for myself, which some artists do as well, especially in procedural art - said Giorgia Lupi explaining the relation between her big data design and the creative artistic process.  This episode moves from Giorgia Lupi's creative concept in her authorial role for our Collection notebook to reflections about the connections between data design, creativity, and social impact. "It's really important for everybody to become a bit more data literate in a way… Really always t ..read more

"If we had to choose one single skill to teach our kids and the future generations, that would be creativity, that innate talent that we all have as human beings…” said Valentino Barrioseta, NGO Bridges for Music Founder and CEO. “You can keep you learning throughout your whole life, and if you master this skills, creativity, curiosity and empathy, I really, really believe there's nothing that can stop you from evolving as the world evolves”. Find out Valentino vision of music as a powerful catalyser for attract and engage youth, a tool to shape a new educational model developing new self-awar ..read more

"Building institutions that are transformative and change the world is like building cathedrals: it requires a unique mindset to believe in something so big that you willing to commit to putting the foundation together, knowing that you may not live long enough to see it" said Veda Sunassee, African Leadership University's Executive Director. His path to leadership is ingrained in a constant self-reflection process that becomes the basis of an incredible and ambitious vision, building innovative institutions that will change the way we conceive education, and develop three million ethical and ..read more

"It's about creating spaces of thought, spaces of reflection, spaces of deliberation, spaces in which we can disagree, in which you can dismantle things, in which you can build things, spaces in which we can commune, in which we can just look at each other, listen to each other and acknowledge each other's presence" said Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, independent curator, author, and biotechnologist, founder and artistic director – among many cultural institutions - of SAVVY Contemporary, an independent project space in Berlin that situates itself on the threshold between concepts of the West ..read more