• Training Artists for Innovation

    Training Artists for Innovation (TAFI) is a unique two year project to investigate creative interventions in business. The project examines the stimulation of innovation and creativity in European businesses through the intervention of artists and creatives.

    Qualification and skills framework
    TAFI reviews the existing and developing models for training artists and creatives to work in business contexts and the need for intermediary platforms. The results of the analyses performed in the first part of the project will be used to develop a qualification and skills framework for artists working in business. A handbook, based on input from artists, intermediaries and businesses, will describe this framework and several successful training models, list a number of best practice cases illustrating creative interventions and contain cultural policy recommendations for stimulating innovation through the interventions of artists.

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    • Training artists by Kunstgreb
    December 1, 2011, , TAFI, no comments
    Watch this video from Kunstgreb Denmark about training artists for creative interventions in business:

    Video om Kunstgreb from Kunstgreb Danmark on

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    Kick-off meeting TAFI: summary discussion points
    November 30, 2011, , TAFI, no comments
    In July 2011 we had the Kick-off meeting for the Training Artists for Innovation project in Amsterdam. To read the summary of the discussion we had about artistic interventions and competencies artists need, click

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    Unilever and artistic interventions
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    An inspiring interview with James Hill from Unilever in the article 'Solving Business Problems through the Creative Power of the Arts: Catalyzing Change at Unilever' by Mary-Ellen Boyle and Edward Ottensmeyer. Interview James Hill

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    An artistic intervention by Pilvi Takala: The Trainee
    November 1, 2011, , TAFI, no comments
    The Trainee has been produced in a collaboration with Deloitte and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art. In order to realize the project, the artist was working for a month as a trainee "Johanna Takala" in the marketing departement of Deloitte where only few people knew the true nature of the

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    12th and 13th December 2011: Meeting TAFI
    September 20, 2011, , TAFI, no comments
    Monday 12 en Tuesday 13 december 2011 will be the second meeting of the TAFI-partners in

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