Healing Arts
The Healing Arts initiative is a global Covid-19 response through the arts; specifically to address the growing mental health crisis. Healing Arts charity auctions in partnership with Christie’s will run through December 2021 alongside a programme of city activations exploring urgent thematic areas of mental, societal and environmental health.
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Artists for Tomorrow
This UN75 online exhibition in partnership with Google Arts & Culture showcases a group of pioneering artists implementing societal innovation towards a more sustainable world. As iconoclastic thinkers, these artists present projects of transformation and re-imagination, creating an art-inspired path towards a more equitable, sustainable and hopeful future.
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The Future is Unwritten is an initiative by CULTURUNNERS to engage the international arts community in the most critical sustainability challenges of our time. As 2020 marked the launch of the United Nations’s Decade of Action, our aim is to empower artists and cultural organizations to transform the future.
2020 Launch Partners
UNGA Week 2020 Program
INDUSTRY,
INNOVATION,
AND
INFRASTRUCTURE
YEAR OF CREATIVE ECONOMY
UN75 DIALOGUECreate2030 welcomed the International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development, 2021, alongside artists, arts organizations, policy and program experts. The panel discussed this opportunity to impact global governance, highlighting creativity’s contributions to the UN Global Goals and Create2030’s new single and music video "Imagine" with youth artists who produced the song for the UN75 Youth Plenary: The Future of Multilateralism.
SUSTAINABLE
CITIES
AND
COMMUNITIES
ARCHITECTURE AFTER CATASTROPHIC CHANGE
UN75 PRESENTATIONThe World Around presents case studies that show how designers, architects and thinkers can collaborate and rebuild in a time of crisis. Led by Beatrice Galilee, The World Around champions innovative and outstanding contemporary architectural and design practices, connecting a global audience to the most progressive values and promising ideas in culture today.
CLIMATE
ACTION
COUNTRYSIDE, THE FUTURE, A UN75 DIALOGUE
UN75 DIALOGUEIn partnership with the Guggenheim, this special UN75 Moderated Dialogue led by renowned architects Rem Koolhaas (Founder, OMA) and Samir Bantal (Director, AMO) coincides with the reopening of their seminal exhibition "Countryside, The Future" addressing urgent environmental, political and socio-economic issues in rural contexts.
Good
health
and
well-being
ARTS AND HEALING AFTER TRAUMA & CONFLICT
UN75 DIALOGUEPart of Goals House @ UNGA, Community Jameel in partnership with The Future is Unwritten convenes this high-profile discussion to highlight the relationship between art and health after trauma. The event will explore ground-breaking research into the links between art and health and focus on a specific case study relating to the preservation of Yazidi culture following the ISIS genocide in 2014.
SUSTAINABLE
CITIES
AND
COMMUNITIES
THE TIME IS NOW / MUSEUMS AS AGENTS OF CHANGE
UN75 DIALOGUEHosted by Museum for the United Nations – UN Live and featuring pioneering museum leaders from around the world, this dialogue focuses on how the cultural sector can confront the most pressing social and environmental issues today. Facing unprecedented global threats, a positive and hopeful future depends on radical shifts in mindset and on action at massive scale.
Peace,
justice
and
strong
institutions
UN75: THE FUTURE WE WANT
UN75 GLOBAL CONVERSATIONWe are excited to share the findings of the UN75 global conversation with you - and with the world. Over 1 million people from every country in the world have shared their hopes and fears, solutions and priorities, for the future. We believe their voices deserve to be heard and their messages amplified. Throughout 2020, join the UN75 global conversation and share your voice on The Future We Want.
Partnerships
for
the
goals
ARTISTS FOR TOMORROW
UN75 EXIBITIONThis exhibition brings together global artists currently implementing societal innovation towards a more sustainable world. With a focus on innovation and impact, these artists represent the shift from discussion to implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through individual artist presentations, the United Nations honors these cultural pioneers as iconoclastic thinkers, essential for the social entrepreneurship and transformation the future requires. In their role as communicators and creative producers, these artists are reacting to global challenges, working across disciplines and collaboratively to offer poetic and captivating solutions and alternative narratives to the SDGs than those presented by scientists, politicians and the mainstream media
Partnerships
for
the
goals
UN75 COMMEMORATION
UN EVENTEarlier this year, UN Member States agreed to hold a high-level event to mark the UN’s 75th anniversary, and to adopt a forward-looking political declaration negotiated through an intergovernmental process on: “The future we want, the United Nations we need: reaffirming our collective commitment to multilateralism." At the meeting, world leaders adopted a declaration promising a safer and more resilient world for future generations.
UN75 Dialogues:
Partnerships
The Future is Unwritten engages the private and public sector to support the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals through art.
We are currently inviting visionary partners to join and support our program in 2021 and beyond.
