In Place of War Ten Year Anniversary Initiative: from research to practice (Highlight call)

IPOW周年纪念活动的目的是培养和支持来自冲突、危机和冲突后地区的新兴艺术家，培养他们的创意人才，提高创意企业技能，并在国际平台上展示他们的作品。该项目的特点是为边缘化的艺术家举办另类创意讲习班，为创意企业家建立辅导网络，并通过《卫报》和Taschen出版社向公众传播这些艺术项目。国际和平计划周年纪念倡议是在10年的研究访问、观察和与冲突地区、冲突后地区或处于社会、政治或经济危机中的社区的创意社区互动的基础上产生的。IPOW的研究表明，在社会和政治动荡时期，创造力是一种强有力的工具。艺术可以提供一种抵制暴力、预防冲突、治愈个人和社区创伤的手段，并使社区能够重新利用被战争消耗的空间。然而，虽然创造力被用来解决社会，心理和文化需求，艺术家往往缺乏技能或渠道来利用他们的才华的经济价值。此外，受冲突或危机影响的社区无法获得必要的教育工具来发展其创造性项目或与受众建立联系。在其最近的阶段（2013-2014年），“战争的地方”试图通过在当地向边缘化社区提供非正式的创造性创业讲习班来解决这一技能差距。然而，短期的非正式讲习班显然对发展技能或增加接触面影响不大。为此，In Place of War创建了由曼彻斯特大学认证的结构化知识交流研讨会。创意企业家研讨会（CEW）为期九周，并借鉴了通过IPOW的研究确定的创意实践。如果没有通过澳大利亚人权委员会的支持发展的广泛研究和从业人员网络，就不可能提供所有这些材料。除此之外，艺术家们还有机会制定一个创造性的商业提案，并将在会议结束时提交。行业专家将对创意提案提供反馈，艺术家将被分配一位导师来支持他们。此外，最可行的项目将获得一笔小型种子基金，以支持项目的发展。除此之外，IPOW还将与Tacshen Publishing合作，为CEW上的新兴视觉艺术家提供指导支持。CEW和指导网络将通过创建一个研究知情的，免费使用的教育工具和专业支持系统，从冲突或极端不利的地点培养新一代的艺术家和从业者。作为这一新的发展阶段的一部分，IPOW与《卫报》建立了关系，以传播和吸引新的公众受众。IPOW受邀在伦敦的Guardian Space举办6场活动。这种独特的合作将提供一个创新的公共空间，展示通过CEW发现的新的和新兴的人才，为艺术家提供一个国际平台，从而扩大机会。这种伙伴关系将促进艺术家与国际观众之间的联系，增加传播渠道，并就艺术在社会中的作用展开公开辩论。为了满足为边缘化艺术家创造经济效益和增加接触国际观众的机会的需要，IPOW还将与Taschen Publishing合作出版一本关于冲突地区艺术的书。艺术家在书中精选，并将获得一定比例的图书销售。该提案旨在为创意创业提供工具，为艺术发展提供支持机制，为来自冲突和冲突后地区的艺术家提供传播和与国际观众接触的新途径。

The aim The IPOW Anniversary Initiative is to develop and support new and emerging artists from sites of conflict, crisis and post conflict by nurturing their creative talent, enhancing creative enterprise skills and showcasing their work on an international platform. The project features alternative creative workshops for marginalised artists, a mentoring network for creative entrepreneurs and the dissemination of these artistic projects to the general public via The Guardian and Taschen publishing. The IPOW Anniversary Initiative emerged from 10 years of research visits, observations and interactions with creative communities in sites of conflict, post conflict or communities in social, political or economic crisis. IPOW's research revealed that creativity served as a powerful tool in times of social and political upheaval. Art can provide a means of resisting violence, preventing conflict, healing individuals and communities and enabling communities to re appropriate space consumed by war. However, whilst creativity is utilised to address social, psychological and cultural needs, artists often lack the skills or outlets to exploit the economic value of their talents. Furthermore, communities affected by conflict or crisis did not have access to the necessary educational tools to develop their creative projects or to connect to audience. In its most recent phase (2013-2014) In Place of War had attempted to address this skills gap by delivering informal creative entrepreneurial workshops on the ground to marginalised communities. However, it was apparent that informal workshops over a short period of time had little impact in developing skills or enhancing exposure. To this end, In Place of War has created structured knowledge exchange workshop certified by the University of Manchester. The Creative Entrepreneur Workshop (CEW) is structured over nine weeks and draws upon creative practice identified through IPOW's research. All this material would not have been available without the extensive research and practitioner networks developed through AHRC support. In addition to this, artists have the opportunity to develop a creative business proposal which will presented at the end of the sessions. Industry experts will give feedback on creative proposals and artists will be allocated a mentor to support theml. Furthermore, the most viable project will be awarded a small seed fund to support the development of the project. In addition to this, IPOW will work with Tacshen Publishing to offer mentoring support for new and emerging visual artists on the CEW. The CEW and mentoring network will nurture a new generation of artists and practitioners from sites of conflict or extreme disadvantage by creating a research-informed, free at the point of use educational tools and professional support system. As part of this new stage of development, IPOW has developed a relationship with the Guardian to disseminate and engage with new public audiences. IPOW been invited to programme 6 events at the Guardian Space in London. This unique collaboration will provide an innovate public space to present new and emerging talent identified via the CEW, giving artists an international platform, thus expanding opportunities. This partnership will facilitate connections between artists and international audiences, increase avenues for dissemination, and generate public debates on the role of arts in society. Responding to the need to generate economic benefits and improve access to international audiences for marginalised artists, IPOW will also work with Taschen Publishing to publish a book on art in conflict zones. Artists featured in the book and will receive a percentage from book sales. The proposal aims to provide tools for creative entrepreneurship, support mechanisms for artistic development and new pathways for dissemination and engagement with international audience for artists from conflict and post conflict zones.