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we celebrated creativity with a global community

WCCE – Ministry of Culture and Knowledge

BRIEF

Spark global creative collaboration with a hybrid event

The biennial World Conference on the Creative Economy (WCCE) brings together creatives, entrepreneurs, thinkers and policymakers to discuss the future of the creative economy, and held its second edition as part of Dubai Expo in 2021.

We were asked to create a bold, exciting concept and experience at a time when the world was just beginning to emerge from the global pandemic.

APPROACH

Rethinking Creative Futures

Using the event’s theme of ‘Inclusively Creative’ as a starting point, we came up with the powerful concept of ‘Curate the Future’, an idea that we believed would unleash the energy of the amazing minds who would be attending and contributing.

EXPERIENCE

Inspiring Future Action

A Radical Environment

We built a series of innovative environments, both physical and virtual, that would unleash the energy of the amazing minds who would attend, locally and globally, helping discover and discuss a broad spectrum of thought-provoking themes.

Galvanising Changemakers

An immensely diverse roster of speakers, participants and partners included Sima Dance, Kamakan, Rooftop Rhythms, Alaa Wardi and Dominique Fils-Aimé.

Seeds of Future Creativity

Through performance, talks, panel discussions, workshops, showcases and installations, participants and partners exchanged ideas, resolved challenges and identified new opportunities for creating a more inclusive and sustainable creative economy.

IMPACT

Over three days, we worked with four sponsors, 159 speakers and 17 partners to create an experience for more than 2,000 creatives, using the Curate Your Future to inspire action for the creative industries locally and globally.