Sustainability of the arts ecosystem

Creative and Cultural Enterprise Program - Laboratories within the Network

The Creative and Cultural Enterprise Program - Laboratories within the Network is an initiative of the Instituto Distrital de las Artes - Idartes, in alliance with the British Council, which seeks to promote projects that strengthen collaborative networks, promote transdisciplinary and intersectoral crossings—environment, health, gastronomy, tourism, etc.—and promote innovation, sustainability and the reactivation of Bogotá’s artistic and cultural ecosystem.

This initiative is based on network promotion, understood as an innovation process that is based on the active, dynamic and co-responsible relationship between the agents of the artistic and cultural ecosystem to cooperate in a coordinated manner in the management and strengthening of initiatives, actions and projects of the ecosystem’s agents.

Within the framework of the alliance, each of the participants has access to an intensive training process based on the British Council’s Creative and Cultural Enterprise Program (CCEP) methodology. They also receive job postings from IDARTES for the implementation of their projects, personalized mentoring with experts, follow-up of the process and participation in the Network Meeting.

Círculos descriptivas de los procesos de Laboratorios en Red

 

  1. Laboratories within the Network: Group sessions guided by experts and practitioners, where the Creative Enterprise Program manual is implemented through workshops, participatory exercises, tools and talks. 
     
  2. Mentoring: Personalized sessions guided by experts and professionals.
     
  3. Job Postings: The resources are distributed among the selected projects.
     
  4. Network Meeting: A meeting space with two approaches: 1) One to one, a space for relationships with possible strategic and potential allies; 2) Networking, where those selected will have the opportunity to share their projects with peer agents.

This program will also offer participants mechanisms to stay in touch with their new network, fostering peer-to-peer learning and exchanges and a regional support network made up of agents from the arts, cultural and creative sectors.