As part of our second event on the impact of digitalization on the creative industries, we will focus on academies for art, design and media technology in Brazil and the Netherlands. What are their ideas about the impact of digitization on the creative industries? How do they prepare their students for the constantly changing professional field? What is happening in Brazil? What is happening in the Netherlands? Is there interest in experiments with new digital and online possibilities like the facilities of Dialogue Cafe, which enables us to start an intercultural/ international collaboration? 
 In this meeting we will explore the ways of working in Brazil and the Netherlands and look for concrete possibilities for collaboration between students and art/ design academies in Brazil and the Netherlands, using the facilities of Dialogue Cafe.
The impact of digitization on the creative industries II Thursday 2nd December, 4pm-6pm CET at Waag Society/UCAM
Participants:
Carla Hoekendijk, founder Game Design Department HvA, school for higher education in Amsterdam Gabrielle Marks, graphic designer and teacher at the Art Academy in The Hague Deanna Herst, professor at the Art Academy Willem de Kooning in Rotterdam Robert Nelk, student Advertising Willem de Kooning academy Rotterdam Carla Cipolla, doctorate in Design at the Politecnico di Milano and is a teacher at UFRJ / COPPE, Production Engineering Program where develops a line of research, teaching and extension on Service Design, developing as one of its main topics the new service models that emerge from the analysis of social innovation cases.
For more information contact waag@dialoguecafe.org or ucam@dialoguecafe.org.
The Internet has fundamentally changed the way we live, work and communicate.
 It has had a profound impact on all areas of the economy, including the creative industries. Both Internet and digitization have opened up myriad possibilities for collaboration; online platforms have given people the tools and resources they need to organize themselves in new ways.
It’s enabled people to create and distribute their own content and create content with others. It has democratized the creation of creative content, and in so doing, challenged traditional industry models in film, music and publishing. New stars are rising from YouTube and MySpace; writers and artists are showcasing their works on blogs and websites; and online tools such as wikis are enabling a new kind of collaboration. There are platforms for information, for connecting (including social networking sites), for co-production and funding (or crowd funding). New platforms, projects and collaborations are popping up all over the globe.
The impact of digitization on the creative industry, part 1 Today at 4pm-6pm CET at Waag Society/UCAM
This meeting we focus on art and design practitioners in Brazil and the Netherlands:
– What are their ideas about the impact of digitization on the creative industry? How do they prepare for the constantly changing professional field? – What is happening in Brazil? What is happening in the Netherlands? – What can the creative industry in the Netherlands and in Brazil gain from each other in terms of new ideas, new expertise, new business or new production chains? – Is there interest in closer connections between the 2 countries and is there interest in experimenting with new digital and online possibilities like the facilities of Dialogue Cafe, which enables artist and designers to start an intercultural/ international collaboration?

In this meeting we will explore the professional field of art and design in Brazil and the Netherlands and their mutual interest. We will look for possibilities to tighten the relations between Brazil and the Netherlands by initiating a collaboration project between artist, designers and art foundations like Funarte in Brazil and Sica and Premsela in the Netherlands, using the facilities of Dialogue Cafe.
Participants:
Sica (Ellen Sluis), Dutch Centre for International Cultural Activities, about the project Cultural Mapping Brazil
Waag Society (Ivonne Dings) about Down-loadable design. a project in collaboration with Droog Design, with focus on new ways of collaboration, production, and distribution and a new perspective on ownership.
Rogerio Lira, graphic designer
Paul Comenencia – Consul-General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Washington Fajardo – Subsecretary of Cultural Heritage, Urban Intervention, Architecture and Design of Rio de Janeiro.
Maristela Rangel РFUNARTE (Funda̤̣o Nacional de Artes)
For more information contact waag@dialoguecafe.org or ucam@dialoguecafe.org
As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, we are delighted to announce our forthcoming event with SIFE – Student in Free Enterprise – on Friday 19th November at Dialogue Cafe Amsterdam and Rio de Janeiro.
Student in Free Enterprise or SIFE, is an international non-profit organization that works with leaders in business and higher education to mobilize university students to make a difference in their communities while developing the skills to become socially responsible business leaders.
Students form teams at their university campuses and apply business
concepts to develop outreach projects that improve the quality of life
and standard of living for people in need. There’s an annual series of
regional forums so the teams present the results of their projects, the
evaluation is done by business leaders serving as judges. To date, SIFE
operates in 39 countries worldwide, with 48,000 students working on
8,700 Team Community Projects and volunteering a total of 4,900,000
hours.
The national champion team advance to the prestigious SIFE World Cup. In
addition to the community aspect of the program, SIFE’s leadership and
career initiatives create meaningful opportunities for learning and
exchange among the participants as well as the placement of students and
alumni with companies in search of emerging talent.
As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, we are delighted to announce our forthcoming event, “All about Arts & Crafts/ New online platforms for sales and collaboration” which will take place on 25th November between Dialogue Cafe Amsterdam and Rio de Janeiro.
Claire S. Freeman, creative producers of handcrafts in Amsterdam and experts that know everything about sales and collaboration platforms like etsy.com and fablab.org will talk about handcrafts and creative ideas to produce, sell, collaborate and work with sustainable resources.
More about the book of Claire Santanna Freeman: Her book, winner of the Brazilian Association of Cultural Managment monograph thesis 2010 contest, discusses artisans, artisanal product and consumer relationships; discusses Arts & Crafts, Cultural Management, Cultural Economy and Solidarity Economy concepts; presents contemporary democratic possibilities for artisans participation in Brazilian Public Politics; describes Arts & Crafts Economy´s productive chain phases and its presence at the World Wide Web. Through an analysis and statistics research of the decade that ends in 2010 and an experience on teaching and consulting services (2006 to 2008) the present study objectives are: serve as a base for Artisans e Cultural Managers on their search for democratic and sustainable solutions that will benefit these small producers; serve as an aid on planning integrated actions with, directly or indirectly involved, partners on this productive chain; contribute to this particular economy field that lacks with theoretical material approaching the various relevant questions here presented and finally propose a Solidarity Artisans Net Management Model.
More about our participants:
Etsy enables people to make a living making things, and to reconnect makers with buyers.The Etsy community
spans the globe with buyers and sellers coming from more than 150 countries. Etsy sellers number in the hundreds of thousands.
At Fablab Amsterdam
anyone can realize their ideas, and with the aid of high tech equipment
transforming those ideas into prototypes and products. The concept of
Fablab was developed by Neil Gershenfeld from MIT during a class ‘How to
make almost anything’. It’s an abbreviation of Fabrication Laboratory.
The (Un)limited Design Contest
functions as an experiment in Open Design – the sharing of creative
work in the same manner as open source software. It allows people to use
the designs made by others, copy these and even adapt the designs on
the conditions that work is attributed, not used commercially, and used
with same license.
Waag Society
develops creative technology for social innovation. The foundation
researches, develops concepts, pilots and prototypes and acts as an
intermediate between the arts, science and the media. Waag Society
cooperates with cultural, public and private parties.
We are delighted to announce a new partnership between Forgotten Diaries and Dialogue Cafe!
Forgotten Diaries is a unique project which aims to raise awareness of the several under-reported “forgotten” conflicts currently occurring around the world and empower young people living in these zones with the skills and tools they need to start and grow community development and peace building projects. Their unique and innovative approach involves the use of a dedicated web platform which connects up to five young bloggers from each of 13 ‘forgotten’ conflict zones around the world, allowing them to share their stories and present a human face to each crisis. Furthermore, they empower youth from forgotten conflict and post-conflict zones through mentoring, training and grants to start youth-led community peacebuilding projects.
Their site has already received tens of thousands of visits and won praise from organizations including the Pulitzer Centre, Oxfam and Microsoft.

 Forgotten Diaries was recently awarded the prestigious World Summit Youth Award. 630 applications were received from over 100 countries and Forgotten Diaries was selected as one of three winning projects for the category “Pursue Truth”. The World Summit Youth Award seeks to recognize and promote highly innovative youth-led projects which use digital and online content in a creative manner to work towards improving living conditions in developing nations and achieve the UN’s Millennium Development Goals.
We are delighted to announce this new partnership and are hoping to showcase some of the fantastic work being done by Forgotten Diaries at Dialogue Cafe soon!
To find out more about Forgotten Diaries join the Facebook Group.
Global Entrepreneurship Week features Dialogue Cafe!
Global Entrepreneurship Week brings together millions of young people from countries around the world to join a growing movement of entrepreneurial people, to generate new ideas and to seek better ways of doing things. It is a celebration of creativity and enterprise, which aims to inspire young people to think big and turn their ideas into reality. This year, events and activities are taking place in countries across six continents from 15-21 November.
There are literally thousands of events taking place across the globe – from online to face-to-face, and from large-scale competitions and events to intimate networking gatherings. For more information on events near you see here. It’s a fantastic opportunity for young people from around the world to come together to learn, share and collaborate.
We think this is an amazing initiative, and are really excited to see how Dialogue Cafe can take part in GEW this year!
