The Next Renaissance

European Crew

Description

We are a European crew made of artists, academics, entrepreneurs! More than 60 European contributors, from all generations and from 15 countries, came together to give reasons for action and build a common place for culture, creativity, and innovation in Europe. In these times of multiplicities of changes—despite or because—a novel type of change is taking shape. It is a transition that empowers a real movement, leaving behind hustling from one state to another: thinking more slowly, more deeply, more from a 360° perspective, and more caring beyond quick fixes. It is a compelling story mixing art, tech, and innovation. Together it is all transformative. This book presents makers and thinkers from the Cultural Creative Sectors and Industries driving this novel shift towards better systems in technologies and organizations, in cities and businesses and the public realm: that is what we call “The Next Renaissance.” 

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Social Science

Informations

• Publié par: Odile Jacob
• Date de parution: 27 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9782415002008
• Langue: Français
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 7 Mo

Extrait

This book is a collection of various points of view. Each text engages only its author.
Conception by CreativeTech  (Laure Kaltenbach, Faustine Charles, Inès Saady)
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“We are convinced that humanity develops best where freedom of science and art reign.”
Josef Albers

“Works of art teach us what is courage. We must go where no one has gone before us.”
Anni Albers

In Catalogue of the Exhibition Anni and Josef Albers, “L’art et la vie” Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France, 2021
Preface
Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart , Minister of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitization and Energy of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf

At the beginning of the 2020s, Europe is experiencing a time of both fundamental upheaval and outstanding opportunity. This simultaneity of crisis and awakening—evident in the COVID-19 pandemic—inevitably forces us to look back into history, into the Renaissance. Where do we stand today as a European society? And with what goals and innovations do we want to move forward in building our society in the pandemic? What future are we building in the midst of crisis?!
The Renaissance was a time of radical innovation and discovery. It promoted the unity of art, science, technology, architecture, craftsmanship and humanism. It is embodied by Leonardo da Vinci, Artemisia Gentileschi and Albrecht Dürer. They invented a variety of new technologies and works of art and redefined humanism and the idea of what an artist is. This later led to the Enlightenment, the European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries. It too sparked revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and politics. The focus was on reason and the ability to understand the universe and improve our own situation. Knowledge and freedom were the goals of this rational humanity.
Today, too, we are witnessing a simultaneity of innovations across the whole spectrum of business and society—often, but not only, to provide answers and solutions to urgent emergencies:
• From new building materials, architectures and urban planning to green hydrogen and steel, to meet Europe’s great challenge: a CO2-neutral society and economy by 2050;
• Innovative digital service and design services so that the state, regions, cities and their administrations work more effectively and directly for their citizens—Europe has set itself no less than the acceptance and strengthening of a free society;
• Innovative markets made possible by the latest technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence—be it new networked mobility or networked media—without hate—across languages and borders; the open and tolerant Europe wants to hold its own in the global competition of models between the USA and China.
We see today that when creativity and technology, economy and society combine in radical new ways, a new European Renaissance is emerging: In 10 years time, will the introduction of AR / VR be compared to the invention of central perspective in the Renaissance?!
We see the opportunity to create a different world and I am grateful that an initiative from North Rhine-Westphalia, with the support of the state of NRW, wants to make a significant European contribution to this by applying to establish the first European Innovation Agency for Creative Industries. Over the course of 15 years, this is to invest around 600 million euros in creative industry innovations that address Europe’s major challenges—what is now being called the Triple Transformation: The Digital, The Green and The Social Transformation.
These investments follow the principle of the Knowledge and Innovation Community, which the European Institute for Innovation and Technology first announced in 2008. These rely on the interplay of the best education, the best research and the best innovations.
The EIT’s initiative to establish a Knowledge and Innovation Community for the creative industries could not come at a better time—precisely when the upheavals of our current renaissance in Europe, creativity and innovation in the creative industries are more in demand than ever. It’s not for nothing that the United Nations declared World Creativity and Innovation Day for the first time in its history, Harvard University launched a Renaissance Initiative, and the World Economic Forum ranked creativity #3 on its “TOP 10 Skills Needed.”
In 2020-2021, the creative industries were a major lifeline for society and the economy during the COVID-19 crisis, as evidenced by streaming and gaming markets growing by more than 20% in some cases, exploratory app uses, and social media communications. They offered opportunities for citizens and entrepreneurs alike, new solutions to live the future in everyday life.
Now the European creative industries face the challenge of contributing beyond their markets to Europe’s major transformations:
• Be it with new AI-based global news, entertainment, and media to strengthen democracy and social peace.
• Be it with innovations in architecture, urban planning, and mobility or in fashion and textiles to reduce the carbon footprint; or
• Be it with the event industry to revitalise city centers and tourism.
Without creative industries, Europe will not be able to cope with the Triple Transformations.
The Next Renaissance, by the North Rhine Westphalia-based ICE Consortium, with this work and its contributions from leading artists, intellectuals, researchers and business leaders, presents a lasting contribution to the global debate on the Renaissance. It is at the same time a pragmatic impulse, a personal invitation, how everyone can shape opportunity and innovation for a future out of the crises that we encounter. Crises always offer gateways from one world to the next and this initiative of the ICE Consortium wants to show you many of them and thus be a midwife of this European Renaissance.
I wish you an exciting read and courageous shaping of your and all our future.

ANDREAS PINKWART

©  Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Innovation, Digitalisierung und Energie des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart was born in Seelscheid, Germany in 1960. After a banking apprenticeship he studied macroeconomics and business economics at the University of Münster and the University of Bonn from where he obtained his doctoral degree in 1991. He subsequently ran the office of Dr. Hermann Otto Solms, chairman of the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag, before continuing his academic career with professorships in Dusseldorf and Siegen. In 2002, he became a member of the German Bundestag and state chairman of the FDP (Free Democratic Party) in North Rhine-Westphalia. From 2005 until 2010, he was Minister for Innovation, Science, Research and Technology as well as Deputy Prime Minister in North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2011, he returned to the scientific sector. Until June 2017 Prof. Pinkwart was Dean of the HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and and ever since holds the Stiftungsfonds Deutsche Bank Chair for Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship. Since June 2017 he has been Minister of Economics, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The Next Renaissance is a Renaissance of the Next
Are we the chicken or the egg?
Bernd Fesel

The next and new is happening daily—in the digital world even every second—as viewers of next developments are also senders turning the next to potential news for others. One click to RT: New-ism meets Instant-ism . So is there really any room for a Renaissance, any chance to even realise the next new dimension in societies’ evolution, before it is surpassed by the next tweet, taking hundreds of millions in elevators of soaring hopes or self-enhancing frustration? This is why the movement to think more slowly, more deeply and more from a 360° perspective is gaining traction.
There truly seems no shortage of the next big trend or of moon shot innovations. But there’s no shortage of crises either, from the next pandemic to the next hunger and housing crises, real estate and banking crises, mobility and climate crises. To our societies, crises are intermediate states on the way to their success, the necessary evil, for some even—as in economy—the prerequisite for recovery. This crisis concept is a pact for the wealth promise of societies after World War Two—and its social cohesion and peace.
But if crises become ever faster and ever longer, if recovery periods become shorter or are omitted, then the grand narrative of our society is less and less sustainable: “The Next Big Thing” is no longer the next thing to hope for or to expect. And even more: The belief in “Real Next” is challenged by the relentless ticker tape of daily updates, breaking news and constant social media notifications popping up. It might be no accident that just in this setting more and more citizens believe that their children will not live a better life than their own—despite the fact that this generation has accumulated an unprecedented amount of wealth and health.
“ It is hard to see a way to a golden age, especially since we know we need to shift our economic order and