Jynnji for Art - Work - Life

In a strong society built from healthy communities, art work and life become inseparable components. Positive ways of life, as well as ways of working emerge, a healthy happy and purposeful populace develops within a meaningful, relevant and rewarding cultural fabric as a result.

 

Prior to the pandemic and it’s subsequent restrictions, and as the ongoing impacts of the same continue to impact upon our global infrastructure and systems, in a way never before envisaged. It is all the more important to be pro-active and creative in our approach to a post industrial world that was already heading towards increasing levels of unemployment, before the pandemic. To this end we must consider ‘meaningfully occupying’ people as important to the health and well being of our society, as meaningful employment, when the two cannot walk hand in hand.

 

We need to rethink how we can create, work and live in a post industrial, post pandemic context in ways that are less negatively impactful upon the environment, less centralised at local level, so the demands upon centralised systems are lessened.

 

We need to future proof our art spaces, our workplaces, our places of learning and training, our places of gathering, so that future potential public health emergencies cannot impact so heavily upon our economy, upon our culture, upon our physical and mental health and well being.

 

We need to think about how we best use the available resources and spaces left available to us, to prioritise according to best use. In a time when space of all kinds is at a premium it is all the more important and certainly more cost efficient to not let spaces go to ruin, or lie unused and empty when there are uses they could be put to. Particularly when letting such spaces lie idle results in their neglect and further deterioration.

 

Without new ways of working between public, voluntary and private sectors and services, without inclusivity and celebration of diversity, uniqueness and imaginative, social, cultural and environmentally conscious thinking, we will not adapt and survive.

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This project is the ideal opportunity to support these new ways of working, new ways of thinking and new ways of deriving value from social, creative and cultural practice, enterprise and industry.