Shaping social innovation in urgent times.
WORLD WAYFINDER 2020-2021
2020 was no ordinary year. So the SIX Wayfinder was no ordinary event. From the beginning, we aimed to develop and share an ‘artefact’ of the moment, showing a spectrum of what people and communities were going through globally. We wanted a tapestry of different stories, rather than a single manifesto.
We wanted to show how these things connect and try to see the links between them, highlighting what we need to keep and what we need to end. So instead of creating a structured programme and a report, we transformed a 2-day gathering into a 9-month collective devised symphony: an emergent score in four movements.
Movement No. 4 — Magic
Movement No. 4 features ‘Sounding Together,’ a 25-minute symphony….a metaphorical journey from individualism to collectivism that we hope will leave you nourished with new perspectives and awareness for how we transition, heal and rebuild with resilience for where and what next…
“The work of social innovators has completely changed."
ARTIST-COMPOSERS IN RESIDENCE
In October 2020, we invited six artist-composers from different continents and time zones, to tune into the stories, feelings, pains, hope and joy of the last 9 months.
They produced individual compositions and a collective symphony in response to the dissonance and harmony around the world, translating and giving further meaning to the Wayfinder content through their own forms of art and music.
2020 was a deeply personal and at the same time fundamentally collective experience. Our personal and organisational resilience was built through waves and waves of powerful lessons and reckonings around social security, justice, and peace.
The Artist Composers’ unique gift is in ensuring that we don’t lose what we can’t touch or feel.
The role of art may act as a bridge between the “now and not yet”. to find ways forward that are new, renewed or adapted.
By tuning in to our individual and collective stories and sounds, listening deeply, practicing together and journeying through a shared experience, we can grasp shared meaning and shape mutual action in these urgent times.