Apply with a creative collaboration of £1,000 and get your idea funded by Creative Dundee!
At each of the InGAME Insights event, Creative Dundee launch an open call for one Insights Collaborative Commission of £1,000. The second call is now open for applicants to combine creativity and games, demonstrating the early-stage potential of creating positive social impacts through experimental collaborations.
Creative Dundee are making this commission available to stimulate new, collaborative ways for creative communities across the city and wider region – artists, designers, makers, games developers – to come together around topics that matter.
Apply here by 09:00 BST on Monday 25 January 2021
Creative Dundee believe this is an opportunity to spark new collaborations to form around topics which have the potential to positively impact society, through some paid time to develop early-stage conversations, digital or physical prototypes.
Through this commission they aim to: promote partnerships between Dundee and the wider region’s creative and games sectors; provide time for collaborators to learn from each other and visit each other’s work spaces, either physically or virtually; champion collaborative learning and opportunities for experimentation; create space for concept development, with clear societal benefits; and share insight blogs on Creative Dundee’s website following each commission.
Applying:
People eligible to apply for this commission are:
- A creative practitioner / business collaborating with a games practitioner / business, or vice versa. Freelancers, SME businesses, students, creative social enterprises, charities and collectives are eligible.
- This commission is about creating new collaborations and concepts – applications must involve a collaborative partnership, therefore collaborators should not be from the same business / organisation / collective. The two collaborators must be working together for the first time.
- Each collaborator must be based in Dundee, or within the Tay Cities region. This region covers Dundee City, Angus, Perth & Kinross and North Fife.
The commission will be awarded to a partnership who can demonstrate they have an early-stage experimental idea that has the potential to positively impact society – such as protecting and improving our environment, supporting equity and inclusion, improving health and wellbeing… The commissioned resource will be used to further scope out an early-stage digital or physical prototype.
Your application should:
- Show how your collaboration will combine creativity and games to experiment and positively impact society.
- Advance new and experimental ways of working for your practice.
- Generate debate about the role of creativity and games to impact our lives.
Selection:
Creative Dundee’s team will consider applications on:
- How innovative is the proposal, is it experimental and does it have a social impact focus?
- Do the collaborators have the right mix of skills to deliver the proposed exploration?
- Is the proposed time frame achievable?
- Can the exploration be achieved within the proposed budget?
