The Creativity Pioneers Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
S5E1 - From Alienation to Connection: Mental Health in an Uncertain World
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The mental health crisis has become impossible to ignore. Nearly 1 in 8 people—close to a billion worldwide—are living with mental health disorder...
S4E2 - Social Change and the role of the Creative Industries
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From climate change to social justice to racial equity and gender identity, Creativity and Culture are playing a critical role in solving the main iss...
S4E1 - Creative Cities, Inclusive Cities
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Creatives thrive in cities, and cities move, change, and grow with the creative minds they host. Urban landscapes are shaped by creative practices roo...
S3E4 - Creativity as a tool for community-building | Skinder Hundal
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"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 Co...
S3E3 - What we owe to the beauty of art | Elvira Dyangani Ose
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"An institution should be an echo, a magnifier for the relationship between art and viewer. Curating is a collective project." Elvira Dyangani Ose, Di...
S3E2 - The power of the modern storyteller | Eliza Anyangwe
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“There is this ongoing need to identify and challenge where power rests.” says Eliza Anyangwe, editor for the CNN “As Equals” project and Foun...
S3E1 - On navigating the complexities of identity and creating art ecosystems | Ngaire Blankenberg
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“How can we contribute as an Afro-global Art institution to a regenerative art ecosystem? How can we not be extractive of collection, capital, peopl...
S2E8 – The book of our life: why to play in different context, with creativity and curiosity, to stay alive | Joël Andrianomearisoa
24 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode recorded during our Creativity Pioneers Instagram Live Conversation."Let's use the answer of creativity and curiosity to stay alive. I’m sti...
S2E7 – The healing power of art | Rossy de Palma
24 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode recorded during our Creativity Pioneers Instagram Live Conversation.“Creativity can give us some therapeutic and balsamic power; we can expr...
S2E6 – Observe, deepen things and elaborate: the sources of creative inspiration | Carlo Stanga
24 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode recorded during our Creativity Pioneers Instagram Live Conversation."Creativity is a kind of transcendent energy, very connected with positive...
S2E5 - Creativity shapes the world: pushing your boundaries out of your comfort zone | Giorgia Lupi
24 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode recorded during our Creativity Pioneers Instagram Live Conversation."I define myself as a designer… It's not necessarily only a problem to s...
S2E4 - Music as a catalyser of change through a new age educational model | Valentino Barrioseta
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"If we had to choose one single skill to teach our kids and the future generations, that would be creativity, that innate talent that we all have as h...
S2E3 - Building innovative institutions for a new generation of African leaders | Veda Sunassee
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Building institutions that are transformative and change the world is like building cathedrals: it requires a unique mindset to believe in something ...
S2E2 - Practice of de-canonization of the art system to build common spaces of unlearning and sharing | Bonaventure S. B. Ndikung
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"It's about creating spaces of thought, spaces of reflection, spaces of deliberation, spaces in which we can disagree, in which you can dismantle thin...
S2E1 - Everything is possible: your creativity to give voice to the under-represented narrative | Adepero Oduye
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"You can do many things with what is available to us, and there are a lot of things that are available to us. We have to find a way to exercise our po...
S2 - Intro
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is beyond the common notion of creativity and how can it serve us? How can creativity benefit our journey? How can it contribute solving importan...
S1E10 - It’s not true that only when the door is locked nobody enters | Benjamin Sainte-Clémentine and Simon Njami
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"I am alone in a box of stone. When all is said and done. As the wind blows to the east from the west. Unto this bed, my tears have their solemn rest…...
S1E9 - Art as a caring practice: new connections for social transformation | Elena Cologni
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Caring can be considered in the practical sense of hands-on ‘caring for’, then in the emotional and ethical sense of ‘caring about’, and in...
S1E8 - A new mindset for an institutional change | Roberto Casati
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“How can we prevent disorientation in terms of getting lost? We need to be super resilient and ready for the next crisis, and it would be possible o...
S1E7 - South Africa: a model for resilience? | Lwando Xaso
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In times of deep crisis, we often look at South Africa as a model for resilience, considering how much of it the country proved to have through its hi...
S1E6 - Reality is the best fiction | Simon Njami
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about the perception of words, and their light and shadows, we’ll talk about the challenge to rediscover their deeper meaning, thei...
S1 Bonus - Intro
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
These episodes are a collection of live talks that were recorded during the first European lockdown, where we explore how creativity could be critical...
S1E5 – Art as a tool for liberation | Raphael Chikakwa
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can creativity and art contribute to the history of a Country and shape local communities? Why Chimurenga as "revolution of the mind" lays the fou...
S1E4 – Inner solid structures as the foundation to achieve beauty and justice | Sebabatso Manoeli
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Beauty, justice, and structure”, three words that are part of the personal and political mission to impact society by Sebabatso Manoeli, Senior ...
S1E3 - Unlearning as a practice of growth | Heba Y. Amin
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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S1E2 – Building inclusive cultural institutions | Uzodinma Iweala
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“When you have people creating or generating in silos, you get a lot of the foolishness that we see happening right now. You get policy prescription...
S1E1 - For a new African narrative | Moky Makura
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
”If you want to change the world, first, you have to change the narrative of the world”, and this is especially relevant for Africa, where it is...
S1 - Intro
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is beyond the common notion of creativity and how can it serve us? How can creativity benefit our journey? How can it contribute solving importan...
“Creativity Pioneers” Trailer
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to CREATIVITY PIONEERS! As the Moleskine Foundation’s vision is to inspire a new generation of creative thinkers and doers, this podcast ai...