- The Ministry of Culture, Recreation and Sports presents the School of Futures, a strategy of creative and pedagogical experimentation, dedicated to the collective creation of narratives and future devices in Bogotá, to open the citizen conversation around the futures of Bogotá, as well as the routes to materialize them.
- The opening meeting will be next November 13, open to the public, in the facilities of the Virgilio Barco Public Library in Bogotáand will be the starting point of this creative conversation that will be guided by national and international experts in Futures Design.
- Paolo Cardini (Italy), Nicolás Madoery (Argentina), Ilana Lipsett (United States) Luiza Prado (Brazil) and Jorge Camacho (Mexico); as well as Laura Quintana, Santiago Gómez-Castro, Alejandro Ángel and Rodrigo Bastidas from Colombia, will generate various reflections around 5 strategic creation axes for culture in Bogotá.
- The 5 international experts will accompany, until November 16, the training of 100 trainers of trainers; community leaders, managers, artists and citizens convinced that any structural change that the city undertakes must address the cultural transformations that accompany them, through laboratories for creating narratives, devices and stories about futures.
The School of Futures is a strategy of creative and pedagogical experimentationled by the Ministry of Culture, Recreation and Sports, which aims to collectively create narratives, stories and future scenarios in Bogotá, as a learning and social dialogue device for the construction of a sense of shared futures in the city. The purpose is to enhance the symbolic and sensitive universe of the city’s inhabitants, activating imagination, trust and collective action around the creation of structural conditions for the exercise of human and cultural rights, as well as the development of thought. critical, creative and complex.
The opening of the School of Futures will take place in Bogotá, between Wednesday, November 13 and 16, at the Virgilio Barco Library. The starting point is the discussion open to the public, which will feature national and international guests, with whom we will dialogue around the following axes of reflection and creation:
- Decolonize the future: Ethics – Aesthetics – Culture
Luiza Prado – Brazil
Artist, writer and academic
Specialist in decoloniality, bodies and futures from ancestral knowledge. It will propose a vision that challenges colonial structures, seeking more inclusive and equitable futures.
Santiago Castro-Gómez – Colombia
Philosopher and decolonial researcher
He has published widely on critical thinking in Latin America. It will provide philosophical alternatives for more critical and diverse futures.
2. Creativity and collective imagination: technologies and cultural mediations.
Nicolás Madoery – Argentina
Cultural producer and technologist
He has focused his work on culture, music and technology. He will lead a reflection on how technologies impact collective creation and cultural life.
Alejandro Ángel – Colombia
Filmmaker and audiovisual producer
Focused on the social and cultural, with an interest in stories of the future in the world of cinema. You will apply your audiovisual experience to explore futures through the media.
3. Imagined cities: urban planning and cultural landscapes
Jorge Camacho – Mexico
Futurist and strategic designer
He has worked on the design of urban futures and strategic thinking for cities. It will address the future of cities and cultural landscapes from a design approach.
Juan de la Rosa Munar – Colombia
Academic and urban planner
He works on issues related to citizen participation and cultural urbanism. You will contribute your knowledge of how people participate in the configuration of cities, both in physical and symbolic terms.
4. Public policies: cultural and aesthetic practices in the reconfiguration of the sensitive.
Ilana Lipsett – United States
Artist and cultural policy designer
As a participatory futures design strategist, she works at the intersection of public policy, community engagement, and development.
Laura Quintana – Colombia
Philosopher and cultural researcher
His focus is on the relationship between politics and aesthetics, not only as a realm of art, but also how they influence life in general. In this axis, you will explore the creation of policies from the aesthetic point of view.
5. Pluriverses: multispecies futures
Paolo Cardini – Italy
Industrial and speculative designer
Director of the Global Future Lab, focused on the design of sustainable futures based on ancestral knowledge. It will address the creation of multispecies futures, based on a design that addresses the futures of life.
Rodrigo Bastidas – Colombia
Writer and Editor
It focuses on science fiction, exploring themes of techno-legal reflections and indigenous cosmologies. It will propose an approach from science fiction that transcends the human.
These same axes of reflection will lead the collective creation of narratives and devices for futures in Bogotá, with 100 people, including social leaders, cultural managers and trainers of trainers, who will learn this methodology with the accompaniment of these international experts, who in turn will have pairs of teachers and national creators to materialize prototypes of futures, located in the concrete realities of the city and its expressive forms.
Learn more about the School of Futures at www.culturarecreacionydeporte.gov.co
Press contacts
Ibon Munevar – SCRD Communications Director
ibon.munevar@scrd.gov.co
Cell phone: 3005728817
Natalia Rodríguez Fandiño – SCRD Press Chief
natalia.rodriguez@scrd.gov.co
Cell phone: 3168309220
Andrea Pérez Martínez – SCRD Journalist
cindy.perez@scrd.gov.co
Cell phone: 3013350008
