Blueprints for Agency: A Forecast Takeover
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Forecast is staging a takeover of the Sinel de Cordes Palace for a weekend in April. As a member of the European platform LINA, Forecast is hosting an open programme to discover and promote initiatives in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area that have developed sustainable strategies for working with—and not just in—their environment for better coexistence. During the takeover, the Triennale will become one of the mentored participants, sitting at the table with the other selected projects as mentees.
Whether you reclaim building materials from waste or work on land protection, tackle issues of craft, design, or communal procedures, be it groundbreaking methods or simple tools: Forecast is looking for approaches that work. It doesn't matter whether these are traditional, long-established solutions or very recent, newly developed ones.
With this open call, Forecast wants to find out what is specific to each project and asks: What was the challenge here, what did you want to tackle or change? How did you proceed in your search for solutions? How and why does your strategy work, what change did it effect? What is the best way to summarise your process, from problem to solution?
The selected initiatives will be portrayed in a series of short documentaries that will be freely accessible online, enabling future participants to gain insights from these practicable blueprints. From April 29–30, participants will delve deeper into the selected initiatives in workshops and roundtable discussions at the Palace Sinel de Cordes, and can, in addition to this, partake in Forecast Condensed—an experimental form of mentoring that is empowering, constructive, and opens up new channels of knowledge and expertise.
What is Forecast
Forecast is a Berlin-based, internationally active platform dedicated to the support, mentoring, and promotion of trailblazing creative practices and audacious artistic practitioners. It runs a mentoring programme which helps to realise projects whose social ambition and innovation potential stretches far beyond themselves. It supports sustainable knowledge exchange across genres and disciplines to promote open discussions of promising concepts.
Forecast has developed the workshop series Forecast Condensed, which offers creative individuals and collectives from a wide range of disciplines the opportunity to examine projects and to enhance their chances of success. A panel of mentors from multiple fields of expertise offers creative individuals, groups, and organisations advice and feedback on their projects. Forecast’s approach can be described as a prototypical development process. Each project is sounded out to find exactly where its distinctive qualities, promise, and potential lies.
Forecast is the initiator of collaborative projects with multiple institutional partners, such as Driving the Human (2020–2023) and Housing the Human (2018–2019).
Elegibility
Individuals, businesses, and communities from all sectors that want to share their knowledge as a blueprint for others on how to become fit for the future are all welcome. The three eligibility criteria are the following:
- The applicant may be an individual or a collective
- The project must be ongoing
- It must be developed in the AML
Dates
- February 28: Publication of the Call for Projects
- March 27: Deadline for submitting applications
- March 28 — April 6: Evaluation and Selection
- April 11 — 21: Preparation / communication with projects
- April 24 — 27: Selected project visits with videographer
- April 29 — 30: Weekend events in Palácio Sinel de Cordes
Form
To participate and submit proposals, please fulfil this form.
Participation is free.
For further questions, please contact: eventos@trienaldelisboa.com
FAQ
What initiatives can participate in this open call?
Any kind of ongoing innovative project from any field, developed in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, and focusing on environmental, social, and economical sustainability.
I’m part of a project that is not implemented yet, or that was active in the near past; can we participate?
Projects that have ephemeral events or that were active in the past and wish to be again in the near future are all welcome. Projects that are not active yet are not eligible for being presented, but are very welcome as guests.
What do we get by applying?
Mentoring from professionals with different backgrounds. An opportunity to present your project to the general public by participating in the Blueprints For Agency Fest that will take place at the Palace Sinel de Cordes. A short video documenting your initiative to continue spreading it around the world.
What do you mean by a short documentary series?
Forecast will produce short sneak previews of the selected projects. Their team will travel around the Lisbon region and visit each initiative with a videographer. During the Takeover Fest taking place at the Sinel de Cordes Palace there will be a screening of a compact version presenting the aggregate plurality of talented initiatives.