Powering artistic and cultural entrepreneurship to drive the climate transition
PACESETTERS explores how arts and culture, creativity and cultural heritage can adapt to, contribute to and ultimately push the pace of the climate transition. PACESETTERS is a research and innovation action funded by the EU's Horizon Europe research programme. It brings together partners and places, creative practices and research perspectives that are out of the ordinary: creatives and climate scientists, artistic researchers and rural entrepreneurs, cultural workers and open source communities. PACESETTERS responds to the abstract challenge of climate transitions by shifting from a model of entrepreneurship based on individual, short-term incentives to one driven by co-agency and new capacities to act together in sustainable ways.
PACESETTERS will identify and analyse advanced practices that run transversally across the cultural and creative sectors; contextualise the results of co-research in three real-world laboratories of social imagination located in Genalguacil and Valle del Genal, Spain; Nowa Huta in Kraków, Poland; and Galway, Ireland. This will be followed by the development and promotion of iterative support and evaluation frameworks, resulting in a critical evaluation and comprehensive demonstration of the real potential of CCIs to drive the climate transition forward.