The PACESETTERS Summit offers a five-day programme for co-developing and testing new formats within a Polyclinic of Creative Practice. We’ve replaced traditional formats like keynote speakers and panel debates with digital feedback tools, whiteboards, and other participation methods.
Instead of conventional roles, we’ll transform La Termica, a former hospital in Málaga, into a clinic. Our aim is to reverse engineer a cultural centre into a polyclinic of creative practice. We’ll stage creative productions, like films, role-plays, experiments, or prototypes for future collaboration formats driven by artistic intelligence.
PACESETTERS Polyclinic of Creative Practice will include waiting and emergency rooms, diagnostic areas, triage zones, transition zones, and transformation zones. It will also have micro-radio and video production facilities, policy labs, research departments, and departments dedicated to repurposing place, wool futures, documentary theatre, cross-disciplinary fermentation, game engines, audience science, and virtual production.
Read the Welcome speech by Mari Sanden and Florian Schneider
Mari Sanden is a post.doctoral researcher at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts, NTNU.
Florian Schneider is professor at NTNU and coordinator of PACESETTERS.
Director de La Térmica y del Centro Cultural La Malagueta
Nerea is Project Manager for ECBN/Creative FED, the European Federation for Creative Economy.