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"Intercreativity" – which is written on the cover of departure’s new Look/Book – is not only title and guiding theme of this year’s business report of Vienna’s funding agency for the creative industries, it is also a fitting motto for the coming year and the new activities the City of Vienna will launch through departure. The Look/Book reflects the rapid development of Vienna’s creative scene and invites its readers on a discovery journey,” says City Councilor Katharina Schinner. The bilingual Look/Book, which provides a comprehensive overview of the current developments of Vienna’s creative scene, is available in good bookstores. departure offers the funded projects a public platform. Christoph Thun-Hohenstein focused his welcome address on the fruitful interaction of the individual creative fields, on thinking outside predefined standards and established patterns. “We want to set innovative accents by placing the focus on new contents and provide sustainable support to Vienna’s scene. Creative energy will, apart from technological innovation, be the major driving force behind social development over the coming decades. But we are not talking about banal beautification, pleasing appearances or prim image promotion. We don’t want mainstream. We want creative challenges, excitement, variety, imponderability. And that’s exactly what departure’s Look/Book 2009 stands for,” explains Christoph Thun-Hohenstein. |
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