PACESETTERS Map of Challenges compiles a comprehensive set of twelve challenges pertinent to art, culture, heritage, and creativity within the context of the climate transition. Throughout the initial phase of the research process, these twelve challenges have been identified as particularly relevant and increasingly urgent. They are to be further explored within the three themes of PACESETTERS Creative Case Studies: Distributed Architectures, Collective Intelligences, and Shared Creativity.
- Paving the way to regenerative economies: Experimenting with bio-based materials and circular aesthetics to replace petrochemicals with renewable alternatives
- Recontextualising notions of innovation: Combining heritage skills with digital technologies to discover novel solutions using traditional techniques in unexpected ways
- Pushing the boundaries of place and identity: Testing strategies of repurposing and exaptation aimed at disrupting the production of a linear sense of belonging
- Decentralising decision making: Constructing federated and distributed architectures to support models of translocal cooperative organisation
- Acknowledging indirect impact: Engaging audiences as co-researchers to find new ways of reducing the carbon footprints of large scale events
- Reframing competence and competitiveness: Leveraging reference frameworks as independent infrastructures that challenge extractive models of creativity
- Countering the loss of diversity: Acknowledging the value created in endangered conceptual worlds, engendering new narrative strategies in a virtualising world
- Navigating new divisions of creative labour: Rethinking the role of art and culture in the triple transition, while realigning creative confidence with collective agency
- Unravelling emerging regimes of aesthetic power: Reverse engineering data sensing and visualisation tools to revaluate and re-politicise instrumentality
- Addressing the crisis of representation: Harnessing the potential of documentary practices across disciplines, to accelerate the progress of the climate transition
- Handling the complexity of multiple crisis situations: Transcending pre-apocalyptic constraints to enhance creative resilience
- Dealing with uncertainty, anxiety and powerlessness: Experimenting with improvisation and stand-up strategies to create forms of continuity that can drive the climate transition.
