8 December 2020  

OPEN CALL: Collaborative Commissions

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?
For more information, visit Creative Dundee’s website here
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Put your stamp on dundee
26 October 2020  

Put Your Stamp on Dundee

Put Your Stamp on Dundee is a collaborative illustration project by Laura Darling, Louise Kirby, Pamela Scott and Suzanne Scott.

In 2019 they were awarded the Creative Dundee Amps Community Ideas Fund and joined forces to create four unique collaborative drawings inspired by the sights, scenery and patterns that can be found whilst exploring the city.

Due to COVID19 restrictions the original plan for the project had to be changed but the core idea remained the same. The Stamp Gals wanted to encourage people to go out and explore the city, take photos through a viewfinder and be inspired to draw from the photos that they had taken.

Each illustrator made their own viewfinder and shared some of their photos on the Put Your Stamp on Dundee Instagram page.

Next, they set the challenge of starting a drawing each inspired by Dundee which they then each added to in their own style. They selected a preferred art material: charcoal pencil, ink, pen and set a time limit of 30 minutes before passing the drawing on to the next person and so on until they all had added to all four. The results are great! These can also be found on their Instagram page.

As no exhibition/workshop was able to occur, it was decided that a limited edition run of the collaborative illustrations and the starter illustrations would be printed. These were made in to packs containing eight postcards each and were given to a selection of Dundee community groups as well some to the public who responded to an Instagram giveaway.

If you would like to get involved the starter illustrations can be downloaded from the Creative Dundee website and shared on Instagram using #stampdundee or tag @stamp_dundee

 

 

Laura Darling is an illustrator and works in a shed at the bottom of her garden. She is inspired by noticing things and drawing them, often on paper and sometimes on sculptures and walls.

Louise Kirby is a designer and illustrator who creates bespoke prints for a range of applications from site specific installations to commissions. Her designs bring the positives into focus so that it connects people to the world around then. She designs a collection products called Dundee Delights.

Pamela Scott is a printmaker and illustrator who works from her home studio in Dundee. She creates drawings, prints, paintings and public art inspired by music, architecture, nature, people and places.

Suzanne Scott is an artist and illustrator based in Dundee working under the name WhimSicAL LusH. She creates unique, quirky illustrations that feature on ranges of prints, stationery, homeware and more.

collaborative commissions
16 October 2020  

OPEN CALL: Collaborative Commissions

Creative Dundee together with InGAME, have launched their first Insights Collaborative Commission of £1,000, inviting applications that combine creativity and games to demonstrate the early-stage potential of creating positive social impacts through experimental collaborations.

At each of their InGAME Insights events, Creative Dundee and InGAME have an open call for one Insights Collaborative Commission of £1,000. They’re 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 16 November 2020

Through this commission, the aim is 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.

Applicants 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.

Tickets are now available for InGAME Insights #3 on Wednesday 25 November 2020 via zoom. Book your tickets here.

To keep up to date with news and opportunities from Creative Dundee visit their website here and visit InGAME’s website here.