Mobile Minds: Culture, Knowledge and Change

The times in which we live are marked by profound and ongoing transformation. Globalisation, technology, climate change, and migration reshape societies, create complex challenges and invite new solutions. Connectivity creates interdependencies and increased contact between individuals with different values, worldviews, knowledge, and cultural expressions; these in turn can challenge existing power relations and bring unequal outcomes. In the face of such change, existing local and global systems can seem neither fit for purpose nor sustainable. However, there is opportunity to cultivate new and diverse forms of intercultural cooperation and to join emerging communities around the world to discover creative ways to challenge current conditions. The arts and culture present a myriad of perspectives and are uniquely positioned to inspire, provoke and enrich how we navigate shifting environments. Change is relative, contextual and varied, and it inspires different reactions and solutions. However, inclusive participation is key to our ability to meet complex challenges and requires equitable cooperative vision, negotiation, and realisation of alternative futures.

In this context, delegates at the 8th World Summit on Arts and Culture will examine how governments, cultural organisations, creative practitioners, and citizens can – and do – work together to actively lead change. The programme will explore how actors from across the cultural ecosystem and beyond converge or diverge in their response to change using traditional, contemporary or future-oriented perspectives that strengthen adaptive capacity and resilience, and achieve purpose and coherence within dynamic conditions. It will also consider how cultural policies address and support innovation, hybridity, diversity and digitalisation; how approaches differ across regions, societies and generations; what role governments may have to balance respect for the past and cultural roots with transformed senses of self, innovation and contemporary practice; how collective and cultural knowledge, and artistic practice can inform development; how diversity and differences can enable positive change; and what mechanisms can establish priorities and support fluid responses to change. With shared experience and new insight, delegates will convene on the final day of the Summit to identify how we mobilise our minds to start creating our futures.

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MONDAY 11 MARCH

8.00-20.00 REGISTRATION (Pullman Kuala Lumpur City Centre Hotel)

12.30-15.30 IFACCA Members Events Programme (by invitation only)

8.45-16.00 Hubs for Good: British Council Forum

17.15-18.00 Delegate Speed Meeting at the Pullman Hotel

18.30 Bus departs from Pullman Hotel to Perdana Botanical Garden

19.00 Final bus departs from Pullman Hotel to Perdana Botanical Garden

19.00-22.00 OPENING CEREMONY at Perdana Botanical Garden

tuesday 12 march (DAY ONE): CONTINUITY AND TENSION

On day one, we will identify global drivers of change, the issues and opportunities that arise from these forces, and their impact on the arts and culture sector.

8.30-9.00	WELCOME REMARKS
9.00-10.00	KEYNOTE	*Cultural Rights: Are we having the right conversations?*
10.00-10.30	MORNING TEA
10.30-12.30	PROVOCATION	*Actors in change*
12.30-14.00	LUNCH
14.00-15.30	PARTICIPATORY SESSION	*Lepak: Continuity, tension and change*
15.30-16.00	AFTERNOON TEA
16.00-17.30	PARALLEL SESSIONS	PANEL: *Public Agents of Change: Policy, actions, responses*
		PANEL: *Sustainable Development: Rethinking notions of the creative economy and wellbeing*
		LONG TABLE: *Cultural Citizenship: The governance of culture*
		LONG TABLE: *Displacement, Migration and Mobility: The flow of ideas and peoples*
		LONG TABLE: *Traditional Knowledge and Collective Wisdom in Contemporary Times*
		OPEN DISCUSSION: *Unfinished Business: Further reflections on burning issues of the day*

wednesday 13 march (DAY TWO): CONVERGENCE/DIVERGENCE

On Day Two, we will explore how creative practices respond to change, converge with its possibilities, interrogate its direction and actively diverge from its trajectory.

9.00-10.00	PROVOCATION	*Creative Disruption: Being human in the digital age*
10.00-10.30	MORNING TEA
10.30-12.30	PANEL	*Creative Divergence / Policy Convergence*
12.30-14.00	LUNCH
14.00-15.30	PARALLEL SESSIONS	CASE STUDY PRESENTATIONS: *Brokers of Change*
		LONG TABLE: *New Creative Environments and Economies*
		PANEL: *Influence, Privilege and Leadership*

		LONG TABLE: *Digital Hierarchy: Who controls, who accesses, and who decides?*
		LONG TABLE: *Transnational Perspectives on Sustainability and the Future of International Collaboration* OPEN DISCUSSION: *Cultural Rights and Public Space, Issues at Stake: Consultation with Karima Bennoune, UN Special Rapporteur on cultural rights*
15.30-16.00	AFTERNOON TEA
16:00-17:30	PARALLEL SESSIONS	CASE STUDY PRESENTATIONS: *Women Brokering Change*
		PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOP: *Drawing Together: Mapping, Decolonising and Futuring Arts and Culture*
		PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOP: *Distributed Web of Care Project*
		PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOP: *Developing Innovation Clusters for Cultural Organisations* PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOP: *Ideas for sharing stories in performance*
		PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOP: *Penan Women’s Weaving Workshop* PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOP: *Domestic Hacking with the House of Natural Fiber*

20.00-22.00 GALA DINNER

thursday 14 march (day three): CREATING OUR FUTURES

On Day Three we will look at how we make tangible change for the future.

9.00-9.45	PANEL	*In Conversation: (Re)Imagining our futures*
9.45-11.15	PANEL	*Where next? The Actors in Arts and Culture Actors Shaping the Future*
11.15-11.45	MORNING TEA
11.45-12.45	PARTICIPATORY SESSION	*All in: Where next?*
12.45-13.30	CLOSING REMARKS
1.30-3.00	CLOSING LUNCH