Mondriaan Fonds
In 2020, Mondriaan Fonds and Collabros engaged in a process, for the application period 2021-2024, in which the relationship between visual art, graffiti and street art was examined together with various stakeholders (graffiti writers, educational institutions, municipality officials, curators, frontrunners from the urban scene).
Partnering
Creative Scrum x Collabros x Geert Loijen
Date
2020-2021
Role
Workshop Design, Dialogue Design, Facilitation, Analysis & Reporting
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The Ask
How do we ensure that grant applications for street art and other urban arts initiatives are assessed by public and private funds on their merits?
The Fieldwork
We created a Learning Lab which purpose was to paint a picture of the richness of street art and graffiti and to expose the relationships between them, by exploring the voices of the various stakeholders. Within the Learning Lab we gathered the whole system, namely Mondriaan Fonds, graffiti artists & organisers, culture brokers, creatives, municipality policy officers, real estate owners/ managers, museum managers, and arts & culture educators. With these stakeholders we engaged in a process of sense making and meaning making. The images that emerged for street art and graffiti, were constructed by synthesising the views of the different stakeholders.
The Deliverables
Through this inquiry, Collabros provided Mondriaan Fund with insight into the world of street art, enabling Mondriaan Fund to make informed decisions with regards to the possibilities of funding street art, and in particular graffiti projects.