From climate change to social justice to racial equity and gender identity, Creativity and Culture are playing a critical role in solving the main issues affecting the planet. But creativity practitioners worldwide are isolated, undervalued, and overlooked as changemakers.  How can creative brands convene a new discourse on creativity's role in galvanizing Social Change? How can they inspire, amplify, support, and develop the vision to create a better future for the new generations?  Welcome to Creativity Pioneers, a podcast by Moleskine Foundation).  Today's episode was recorded during the last Milano Design Week in a panel discussion in partnership with Highsnobiety and Moleskine. With:  Daniela Riccardi, CEO of Moleskine  Herbert Hofmann, VP Creative & Buying at Highsnobiety  Lidi Grimaldi, CEO of Interbrand  Marta Foresti, Founder and CEO of LAGO and Visiting Senior Fellow ODI  Creating spaces where imagination and criticality can happen is crucial. And this talk aims to be one of those spaces.   ★ Support this podcast ★

Creatives thrive in cities, and cities move, change, and grow with the creative minds they host. Urban landscapes are shaped by creative practices rooted in local communities, which can lead to transformative urban agendas with increasing attention to sustainability and inclusion. This happens because of people, collaboration, and experimentation, at the individual and institutional levels, often across borders.  Welcome to Creativity Pioneers, a podcast by Moleskine Foundation. Today’s episode was recorded during the last Milano Design Week in a panel discussion on how creative minds and talents contribute to social and economic changes in global cities, focusing on emerging markets and economies. And why this is seriously worth investing in. With: Gabriella Gómez-Mont, former CMO of Mexico City and Founder of Experimentalista  Marta Foresti, Founder and CEO of LAGO and Visiting Senior Fellow ODI  Linda Di Pietro, Artistic Director of BASE  Marcus Desando, Director of the Prince Claus Fund Emilia Terragni, Associate Publisher at Phaidon Press The event was in partnership with ODI, Lago, and BASE.  ★ Support this podcast ★

"Art is not a hobby, or a luxury. Rather, it is a necessity, it gives purpose, and saves life." Skinder Hundal, Director of the Arts of the British Council, unravels decades of learning through his outstanding career in artistic institutions in this episode of Creativity Pioneers. Discover how Skinder frames creativity as a tool for collaboration in communities, and how experiencing life through the arts allows one to innovate and form new ideas. Keywords: Collaborative, Courage, Consciousness @SkinsBC on Twitter, @skinderhundal on Instagram

"An institution should be an echo, a magnifier for the relationship between art and viewer. Curating is a collective project." Elvira Dyangani Ose, Director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and the first Black woman to take on the position, is aiming to change the European cultural landscape through curating projects for the people. In her new journey as the head of one of Spain’s most important museums, she still believes in putting the beauty of art first. Keywords: Historymaking, Togetherness, Relation @edyanganiose on Twitter and Instagram Website: www.macba.cat

“There is this ongoing need to identify and challenge where power rests.” says Eliza Anyangwe, editor for the CNN “As Equals” project and Founder of The Nzinga Effect. After years of experience in the journalism world, Eliza takes on her role as a modern storyteller to challenge ideas of power hierarchies and how to make a place in the world for yourself, and for others. Keywords: Curiosity, Love, Language @ElizaTalks on Twitter, Website: https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/asequals/

“How can we contribute as an Afro-global Art institution to a regenerative art ecosystem? How can we not be extractive of collection, capital, people, how do we navigate the paradigm of ownership, how can we create a more equitable and regenerative ecosystem?” asks Ngaire Blankenberg, director of the Smithsonian Museum of African Art. Through her vision of the complexities of identity, she reflects on her position in one of the biggest cultural institutions in the world for African Art to create an accessible and durable Art ecosystem for the generations to come. KEYWORDS: Institutional - Global Africa - Regeneration Website: https://www.si.edu/about/bios/ngaire-blankenberg

Episode recorded during our Creativity Pioneers Instagram Live Conversation."Let's use the answer of creativity and curiosity to stay alive. I’m still alive because I'm curious. I think that's the only thing. I think that's the only answer because I'm creating something different – said artist Joël Andrianomearisoa - It's like reading a book. We have the book of our life and we have to create a different rhythm on this book”.Joël Andrianomearisoa talks about the power of emotions and the plurality of curiosity to nurture his creativity, moving reflections from his sources of inspiration to his role as an artist in society, and much more.@studiojoelandrianomearisoa on Twitter  ★ Support this podcast ★

Episode recorded during our Creativity Pioneers Instagram Live Conversation.“Creativity can give us some therapeutic and balsamic power; we can express our creativity and share with the others and be inspired by others, like a chain. And I am happy to belong to this universe of art and always researching, always being curious about things - said Rossy De Palma, polyhedric artist, actress and muse - This social change with this creativity weapon is me.”Get inspired by Rossy De Palma’s talk about the healing and contagious power of art, the importance of self-care and love to enter a spectacular creative process, and the artist's role vision in our society.@RossyDPalma on Twitter and Instagram  ★ Support this podcast ★

Episode recorded during our Creativity Pioneers Instagram Live Conversation."Creativity is a kind of transcendent energy, very connected with positive thinking. And it's a powerful element that allows us to make positive, great things - said Carlo Stanga, architect, award-winning illustrator, cities traveller and observer - We have to give creativity the right direction, the positive direction to a change that is in the best way: the main aim of creativity is to change the world, even small changes, but altogether, these changes are making great change."Enjoy Carlo Stanga’s provocative talk about the urgent needs of new perspectives on ourselves and the world around us, based on self-awareness and knowledge: only investing more time and energy into observation, deepening things and elaborating, we can access new sources of inspiration enabling our creative process.@carlo_stanga on InstagramWebsite: https://www.carlostanga.com/ ★ Support this podcast ★

Episode recorded during our Creativity Pioneers Instagram Live Conversation."I define myself as a designer… It's not necessarily only a problem to solve, but really figuring out frameworks and rules for myself, which some artists do as well, especially in procedural art - said Giorgia Lupi explaining the relation between her big data design and the creative artistic process. This episode moves from Giorgia Lupi's creative concept in her authorial role for our Collection notebook to reflections about the connections between data design, creativity, and social impact."It's really important for everybody to become a bit more data literate in a way… Really always trying to re-connect numbers to what they stand for - which are our life - it might lead to more impact, more social changes and really even just more aware of how we should use this, apparently cold, material called data."@giorgialupi on Instagram and TwitterWebsite: http://giorgialupi.com/ ★ Support this podcast ★