Jointly re-inventing purpose
Summary
In this strategic pilot we collaborated with a Taskforce of about 100 associations of cultural and creative practitioners in the Netherlands (from photographers to musicians, designers, actors, artists, writers, and more). Since their establishment at the start of the Corona Pandemic, they functioned as an effective and above all informal network of representatives from the sector towards the government and society. We took into account their expressed desire to become a more formal and permanent body, but to also stay agile and flexible enough to adapt to the evolving wishes and needs of their creative and cultural communities. By gathering and clustering all the ideas, reflections and suggestions throughout the project stages, we were able to jointly define three potential future scenarios for the Taskforce to choose from. Considerations related to their formalisation as a more permanent body (internal set-up) and to the interactions with their communities of creative and cultural practitioners (external activities) were part of these scenarios.