The Sustainability of the Artistic Ecosystem Line

The Sustainability of the Artistic Ecosystem Line of the Instituto Distrital de las Artes - Idartes seeks to consolidate processes around the generation of collaborative work networks, inter-institutional and inter-sectoral articulation, the strengthening of independent spaces, the closing of territorial, economic and cultural gaps, and the circulation and commercialization of goods and services that contribute to the economic reactivation and stabilization and cultural consumption of the city.

Its strategic processes are implemented to generate spaces that involve the four main dimensions of the artistic ecosystem: training, circulation, articulation and knowledge management. In this way, actions with a long-term projection are worked on, which manage to connect different agents for the development of abilities and skills, forms of financing and collaboration, exchange and knowledge networks that allow gradually achieving the autonomy and sustainability of the agents in the sector.

• Training: To qualify the agents of the artistic ecosystem for closing gaps, multidimensional sustainability and social innovation.
• Circulation: To implement strategies for the reactivation, decentralization and diversification of circulation, through local, night, and community circuits, multifunctional spaces, cultural venues and activities in public spaces.
• Articulation: To promote adequate, effective and successful connections for the development of artistic and cultural territories through the promotion of networks, organizational strengthening and collaborative work in community environments for the sustainability and reactivation of the artistic ecosystem.
• Knowledge management: To identify, diagnose and characterize the dynamics of the artistic ecosystem, sustainable practices, collaborative networks, mapping of agents, local circuits and community environments.

What is Sustainability?

Sustainability is a state of balance between the various agents of the artistic ecosystem in relation to resources and needs, which guarantees the exercise of their artistic practices and cultural rights in the present without putting their existence at risk in the future. In this sense, this Line works through five dimensions:

• Social Sustainability: The relationship between an agent or project with other agents or projects, which allows strengthening and generating possibilities for growth and exchange.
• Economic sustainability: Guarantees ways and possibilities to generate and manage economic resources through experience, tools and knowledge management.
• Sustainability of meaning (Core mission): It is the basis for structuring the identity values and objectives of a project or the common purposes of a collective or cultural initiative.
• Artistic and Cultural Sustainability: It involves the technical elements and the cultural environment that determine the creative, productive, and learning processes and the specific abilities that strengthen the agent.
• Ecological Sustainability: It is the relationship of the artistic practices with the physical and material resources, the environment and their impacts.