Creativity Pioneers Residency
Moleskine Foundation and BASE are working together across their curatorial frameworks (Other Suns and Hello Darkness ↗) to explore how creative practices respond to a present shaped by instability, inequality and continuous change, while opening up space for alternative ways of imagining and inhabiting the future.
Rather than treating this as a separation between present and future, the open call starts from their entanglement: how can artistic and cultural practices operate within complex and unstable conditions, while still generating new orientations and possibilities?
BASE and Moleskine Foundation come together around a shared question: how do we work within the present in ways that allow alternative futures to emerge? Rather than resolving this as a conceptual opposition, this residency starts from practice itself.
The Residency
This call was open to Creativity Pioneers across all the cohorts of the Creativity Pioneers Fund ↗, working in creative disciplines, including, but not limited to visual arts, film, performance, design, literary arts, journalism, biodiversity, social practices and hybrid formats.
↘ The call selected 2 Creativity Pioneers from the Creativity Pioneers Fund community (one person per organisation is eligible to benefit from the residency).
↘ The selected organisation’s representative will be invited to develop their research within BASE Milano, engaging with its spaces, communities and public dimension.
↘ The outputs of the residency will be shared during The Creativity Revival gathering, taking place in Milan from 12-16 October, in the form of the UNCONFERENCE session.
Meet the 2026 Pioneers
Are We Europe Foundation ↗
The Are We Europe Foundation was established to advocate for a European media landscape authentically representing the continent. The foundation empowers underserved and marginalized communities to share the stories essential for building a better Europe by implementing creative media programs and initiatives.
SURF GHANA COLLECTIVE ↗
Surf Ghana was founded to amplify African voices in sport, art, and culture, celebrating Black joy and challenging stereotypes. It empowers youth through skateboarding, surfing, music, and photography, fosters collaboration with the diaspora, and builds inclusive community spaces. The organization promotes education, entrepreneurship, cultural pride, and sustainable, community-led development. It also positions Ghana as a hub for creative exchange and meaningful cultural experiences.
Strategic
Synergy
Moleskine Foundation is headquartered at BASE Milano, where it’s a key partner within the Project House ecosystem ↗.
Our shared commitment to social and cultural impact is reflected in our ongoing collaboration: from the promotion of the 2023 Bird of Passage artistic residencies ↗ to the co-creation of the I.D.E.A. (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility) framework ↗.