Our project is the creation of an Inclusive Economy festival, this is an experiential get together, of global scope, with different moments distributed throughout the year, in face-to-face and virtual mode that seeks to generate a space for collective reflection and meaningful conversations that allow us to move towards an inclusive culture and economy, which promotes shared well-being on a healthy planet. It includes art, spaces for personal and collective reflection, methodologies for action, and includes joining a virtual network of inclusion.
Behind this project there is a diverse team, committed with the certainty that, in an increasingly unequal and still profoundly exclusive world, there is an urgent need for people and movements that actively contribute to building new ways of living together. Our professions, experiences and biographies converge in a space from which action is open to the multidisciplinary gaze: education, communication, design, art, language, culture.
This project has several instances: it co-initiates on May 30 with a launch event and continues to be developed in August and September 2024.
We decided to start this crowdfunding campaign seeking to raise the necessary funds to be able to develop the activities of August and September and finally, as a result of what we are going to harvested in the different moments, to be able to develop an ethnographic research, seeking to produce knowledge about diverse views, feelings and methodologies to promote transformations towards a fair way of living together.
Main features and goals of the crowdfunding campaign
This festival is an experiential get together, of global scope, with different moments and in face-to-face and virtual mode, which seeks:
• To generate a space for collective reflection and meaningful conversations that allow us to move towards an inclusive economy, an economy that promotes shared well-being on a healthy planet.
• To raise awareness about the value of diversity and inclusion of all nature, including the diverse human nature, in different contexts: art, work, education, entrepreneurship and social.
• To include ourselves through art, which acts as a vehicle for dialogue and a bridge between realities.
• To promote collective and personal action and reflection, with the conviction that all people are potential agents of change.
An invitation to redesign our coexistence.
It will have different stages:
Co-Initiate: Face-to-face, online (for everyone) and participatory launch at the Amphitheater of the National Auditorium of SODRE in Uruguay. Thursday, May 30th. With the harvest of this event, we will continue to design the next 2 stages.
Co-sense, co-inspire and co-create: Participatory and experiential online event (for everyone) August 29th and 30th. A listening space, a sounding board for voices from different parts of the world, mixed proposals for personal reflection, body exercises, journaling, creation techniques, spaces for conversation and exchange, working groups and an invitation to action.
Co-evolve: Hybrid event for everyone, the first week of September.
Why this is important
This project is aimed at all people, families, activists, companies, people in politics, educators, artists and the general public. That is why the event is designed with accessibility in mind. It will have interpretation in Sign Language, interpretation in English, Portuguese, Spanish and the materials are also made in easy reading.
Team and experience
This will be the third edition.
In the first edition held in 2020, more than 200 people from 14 countries participated, 40 panelists with gender parity (15% of panelists with disabilities). 30% of participants were awarded scholarships to be able to participate.
In the second edition held in 2022, more than 300 people from 23 countries participated, 17 panelists, of which 17% were people with disabilities and 40% of participants received scholarships.
One of the most important indicators is the excellent feedback from participants.