We’re actively seeking out collaborators and cooperators to codesign novel and impactful social interventions that are inclusive, democratic, and participatory in the best Scandinavian traditions of collective work related innovation.
We have already established an in-principle working collaboration and three way cultural partnership with the Kilen Museum of cultural heritage of rural livelihood entrepreneurs in coastal southern Ostrobothnia. Kilen was an important harbour in the sailing ship era, and Kristinestad – the municipality and the city – has made ships that sailed around the world.
We are also honoured to be able to share the logo of the Arts Promotion Centre of Finland – taike.fi – on our partnerships page because this website would not exist without their grant for artists severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic which our chairman and cofounder, Niti Bhan, received in May 2022. You would be joining a museum, a municipality, and a centre for curating artistic excellence in Finland.
We are open to discussions on establishing a bank payment channel on our website for memberships of various shapes and sizes, and a community to develop around the fostering of agency for self-determined innovations to one’s existing commercial and personal practices as a means to accelerate one’s own transformation to a more sustainable version that supports planetary wellbeing and life on earth.
We are also open to discussing sponsorships and financial support for our plan of projects starting Spring 2023 and continuing actively collaborating with a rural community and their hyper local socio-economic microsystem until Spring 2024 at minimum. There are approximately 26 to 30 community workshops of various sizes planned over the next two years. Each is open for sponsorship for a light refreshments after work networking event and a 12 minute presentation by the donor institution. We aim to revitalize the rural informal socio-economic system through activating creativity and innovation locally for self-determined sustainable development roadmaps.
Following in the footsteps of the foreign ministry, we would also like to contribute our mite to the Finland testbed of a data-driven yet wellbeing centered economic system. We would like to take on the challenge of building a creative bridge across the chasm that divides western science & technology academic paradigm with knowledge systems are transferred by very different means. For example, fine motor skills required for craftsmanship of all kinds, or the generations old knowledge of the land that has been within a family for 500 or 600 years that is passed on along with the farm and the forest. These embodied and experiential knowledges are only acquired through practice – what the universities now call ‘learning by doing’ is how youth has always apprenticed to their seniors.
This requires a lot of upfront exploration and discovery – in close cooperation with a rural community willing to try something new because the world is changing too fast for their existing skillsets to cope with and they fear they will not be able to independently support their families as the generations have done before them. We have such a partnership engagement with the village of Sideby in southern Kristinestad municipality which is our co-founder’s ancestral village. They are willing to let us experiment with them for social design of operating models to bridge the attention gap between rural and urban Finland, for example, and bring society closer for transformation towards the country’s SDG goals.
My portfolio demonstrates the path I have taken for the past 30 years in order to arrive at this purpose. Our team’s high quality visual artistic and design work can be seen here. Contact details here.
