Our role

The Fitzcarraldo Foundation began to consider how to emerge from the eye of the storm: how to radically rethink its own strategy for floating and navigating, how to respond to conditions that were unthinkable and whose consequences could not be planned for.

In order to understand what was happening, the Fitzcarraldo Foundation made a series of actions in the first six months of 2020: it monitored the effects of the pandemic on the cultural world through the Cultural Observatory of Piedmont; it participated the discussions in task forces and local institutions on how to restart; it recognised, at a national level, those invisible workers who were excluded from any form of assistance.

At the same time, the Foundation was convinced that it was necessary to go beyond the emergency and look ahead to imagine new pathways and destinations. For this reason, it decided to propose a series of questions to investigate the future of the cultural ecosystem. The 10 questions were addressed in the 2020 edition of ArtLab. Territories, Culture, Innovation. From June 9 to 13, online for the first time , a series of meetings took place to reflect on the contribution of the cultural and creative sector to reconstruction. The discussions focused on how innovative and effective practices and policies could promote people’s well-being, social change, and economic development, in line with the objectives of the Agenda 2030.