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Sport, art and social inclusion. 2012 Call for projects

Consejo Superior de Deportes + Idensitat [CSD + iD SPORT ]
2ª Call for projects [download roules in pdf - spanish text]
Deadline November 15, 2011
The Consejo Superior de Deportes [CSD] (Sports Council) in collaboration with Idensitat [ID SPORT] announces a call for interdisciplinary projects that promote the relationship between sport and social, cultural and creative areas. This text gives some references about the fields and specific targets aimed to influence and concrete information to complement the general guidelines.

We are witnessing the development of what might be considered as a “field” of social commitment in sports that did not exist until just a few years ago. This commitment takes on, as a main feature, topics of social exclusion with interventions in disadvantaged neighbourhoods or groups in situations of social exclusion.
The increasing prominence of activities and sports projects directed at these sectors leads us to research experiences in what we might call " good practices " to build an archive as a resource for learning, debating, and to build relationships among sport, social interventions, and creative practices (art, design, architecture, etc.).

We believe that sport interacting with these fields can support processes of social cohesion, especially when it helps to create places, or to strengthen already existing venues, where peer groups can meet and communicate.. In this way, sport can become an interesting source of social capital and an element in the creation of different social networks (contacts, friends, friendship, prestige, etc.).

Within creative practices, sport is often treated as circumstantial or thematic, but some examine certain social dynamics as a basis for work regarding relationships and shared creativity. Sport enhances these kinds of relationships and connections. Sports activities usually facilitate contact and relationships between individuals and groups of different backgrounds without the protocols demanded in other types of activities. Bringing both aspects together, we believe, can help develop projects to stimulate social creativity and an exchange of values particular to every field of action in certain local contexts .

We also believe that within this dynamic, it is important to recognise the limits both of sports and creative practices. That is, sport or sports activities, as well as art or creative activities, by themselves do not change situations of social or cultural exclusion. This requires the combination of each party with policies and interventions from cross-disciplinary projects.

The aim of this call for projects is to identify existing work, to generate an archive of 'good practices' and disseminate them, and to support the creation of new cross-disciplinary experiences ARISING from the relationship between sport practices and artistic practices. The call is aimed at the wide range of organisers, creators and cultural agents throughout Spain.

Types of Projects at which this call is aimed

The Project Bank is open for ongoing projects, and the Project Laboratory pursues the production of new and experimental projects.

a- PROJECT'S BANK
Open call for projects with social commitment, art projects related to sports, and hybrid projects crossing different action fields of activity : creative, sporting and social. Call for projects, either in progress, or already finished. Selected projects will be part of an archive or project bank with the aim to disseminate them, and make them accessible. All selected projects will receive an honourable mention by the Consejo Superior de Deportes and Idensitat. In addition three projects, selected for outstanding innovation, will each receive an award of 1.000 Euros.
The Bank Project is aimed at:

Organisations, associations, sports clubs, or other entities whose main objective is social inclusion, as well as social intervention through sport in disadvantaged areas.

Creators and groups from different disciplines (artists, architects, designers, etc.) which organise or promote projects based on sporting subjects and with special orientation towards social questions.
Projects arising from the relationship between organisations and sporting associations with groups and individuals which, from contemporary artistic practices, articulate hybrid projects addressing issues of inclusion or social intervention through this relationship between creativity and sport.

b- PROJECT LABORATORY
Call for projects proposing formats of public intervention, the main thread being the relationship among art, sport and society. These projects should address issues related to social space, raising questions, detecting conflicts, proposing strategies of negotiation or of participation through the relationship between sport and artistic practice, and creating specific shared methodologies. Projects which can be realised in the medium-short term and experimenting new ways of production in collaboration with local organisations both in urban and rural environments. One aim is to promote projects from the field of contemporary artistic practices which affect public space, articulate methodologies of direct collaboration with local agents and all being linked to formal or informal sports activities.


All selected projects will receive an honourable mention from the Consejo Superior de Deporte and will be awarded a maximum of 9.000 Euros (subject to tax deductions) each toward their production from which a maximum of 20% may be used as fee. The selected projects will be part of the projects bank, and will participate in an exhibition to be organized from this call.

The laboratory project is aimed at:

Creators from the field of contemporary artistic practices, working in collaboration with organisations, associations and sports organizations with projects that reference hybrid issues of inclusion or social intervention from the cross-sectional relationship between creativity and sport.
Projects of both types may refer to any Spanish place (city, town or district) and participation is open to all nationalities.

Selection committee
Marta Carranza Gil-Dolz del Castellar. Deputy general director of sports promotion and Paralympic sport. Consejo Superior de deportes.
Carmen Guerrero. Journalist. Cabinet advisor of the Secretary of State-President of the Consejo Superior de deportes.
Gaspar Maza. Anthropologist. Coordinator of the group of sports and social inclusion -Plan A+D. Consejo Superior de deportes.
Ramon Parramon. Artist. Director of IDENSITAT. Director of ACVic, Centre d'Arts Contemporànies.
Martí Peran. Comisario independiente y profesor titular de teoría del Arte en la Universidad de Barcelona.

Autonomous display devices
C.SD and ID will support in various ways the presentation and dissemination of projects according to the characteristics of different productions. This includes enhancing specific presentation methods such as interventions in public space, exhibitions, publications, etc. Thus different display concepts will be used to give visibility to suitable projects.

Communication strategies
The communication, broadcast and interpretation of the different projects will be realised through a Website, which will be permanently updated with information about the projects, their progress and all their activities. Specific content such as texts, images or video, will be provided. The selected projects will be part of a thematic publication on artistic practices, sports and social inclusion.

PROPOSALS SUBMISSION
The proposal must be submitted in digital format using the form included on this website specifying : Project Bank or Project Laboratory. [Form and instructions to be filled]

Project bank requirements. Submit one single document in pdf format.
- Written document setting out the basic outline of the project and its aims. (5.000 characters máx.)
- Images and texts on the project and references to the context in which was located. (5.000 characters maximum and 10 images.)
- Curriculum of the members of the project specifying a representative in the case of a collective.
- Contact details (name, telephone, e-mail and postal direction).

Project laboratory requirements. Submit one single document in pdf format.
- Written document setting out the basic outline of the project. (5.000 characters máx.).
- A maximum of 10 images to help illustrate the project's content.
- Curriculum of the members of the project specifying a representative in the case of a collective.
- Contact details (name, telephone, e-mail and postal direction).

DEADLINE
The deadline for submitting proposals is November 15, 2011.
 All projects should be carried out and completed by the end of the year 2012.
The selected works and the corresponding projects are the property of the author or authors. The authors will allow the reproduction of their projects' material in different publications promoted by CSD and IDENSITAT, to be used in their websites and in other spaces related to the diffusion of the programme.
For each project selected in the Project Laboratory, there will be a specific contract agreeing objectives, time and budget. Works produced as part of CSD - IDENSITAT must communicate any publication outwith CSD and Idensitat

CSD and IDENSITAT will incorporate in their information archive all documentation generated by this programme

Information published in: www.csd.gob.es / www.idensitat.net.
Contact: idensitat[at]idensitat.net s e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it / inclusión.social[at]csd.gob.es

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