When you reflect on your organisation’s role in the wider resilience transformation, what feels most important or urgent?
What feels most urgent is the need to develop new and innovative services that can translate resilience thinking into practical tools for municipalities, communities, and cultural actors. Traditional approaches are not sufficient to meet the scale and complexity of today’s challenges. We see a growing demand for services that cut across sectors, integrate culture and social sustainability, and provide municipalities with accessible ways to plan, budget, and act with resilience in mind.
A particularly important dimension is the role of AI for good. We are already experimenting with AI to condense time, connect the dots across data and policy objectives, and generate grounded responses to local challenges. This has shown enormous potential to make resilience tangible and localized, helping stakeholders move from abstract goals to practical, co-benefits–driven actions. Harnessing AI responsibly can accelerate learning, improve accountability, and create shared insights that are otherwise difficult to achieve within the constraints of municipal resources.
Our role, therefore, is to act as a bridge-builder: connecting cultural actors, municipalities, and knowledge partners, while also innovating new digital and participatory services that make resilience actionable. Urgency lies in demonstrating that resilience is not only about managing risks, but also about designing systems and services that unlock co-benefits across society. By combining culture as infrastructure with the intelligent use of technology, we can support a resilience transformation that is inclusive, practical, and future-oriented.
We exist in Hungary, where we're (and other independent cultural organizations as well) in extremely hard situation due to the operating government and their acts, on the other hand we're working mostly on international projects. the hardest question is to balance between the local and international circumstances (realities)
As a university department within the creative and cultural industries, we believe our most urgent and valuable role in the wider resilience transformation lies in acting as a catalyst for public-sector innovation and sectoral development. Higher education institutions can provide the intellectual, human, and cultural infrastructure necessary for sustainable transformation, especially in fields like film, media, and design where resilience intersects with creativity, digitalisation, and ecological concerns. In Türkiye, where public support and regulation play a key role in shaping the creative economy, universities can serve as a bridge between state institutions, industry stakeholders, and local communities. By aligning curriculum development, research agendas, and project-based collaborations with the resilience goals of the wider sector, we can help incubate practices and models that gradually influence policy and production dynamics. This transformative role becomes even more important when considering graduate employability. If resilience-oriented strategies can also lead to the creation of new, sustainable job markets and production models, student interest in creative disciplines may be revitalised. In this sense, the university is not just a place of knowledge transmission, but a driver of cultural and economic renewal in the face of systemic uncertainties.
We work on the issue of resilience for others: this process has given us a chance to reflect on what resilience means for us. So it is giving us a chance to practice what we preach, and then later on perhaps we will also be able to speak from experience rather than research i.e. preach what we practice.
Modelling the integration of cultural and ethical logic into economic strategy.