This pilot empowers creative hubs to take a proactive and structured approach to sustainability by defining, supporting, and piloting the role of the Sustainability Manager. Through the CYANOTYPES Framework, it introduces real-life strategies and future skills needed to embed sustainability into daily operations, long-term planning, and community culture in hubs.
Target groups:
Staff members of creative hubs, especially those taking on the role of Sustainability Manager, along with hub managers and operational teams. Trainers/facilitators support the learning process.
Creative hub communities (makers, artists, entrepreneurs), partners, and funders. They are included indirectly through hub-level action planning, stakeholder mapping, and behaviour-change strategies that engage them in implementation.
Competences:
Anticipatory Innovation
Regenerative Agency
Value-Creating Agency
Boundary-Spanning
Complex Problem Framing
Creative Ideation & Prototyping
Behavior Change for Sustainability
Co-creation & Collective Intelligence
Action Planning & Implementation
General approach:
Practice-based, collaborative, and competence-driven. The approach combines reflection, co-creation, foresight, and experimentation, using the CYANOTYPES Framework to guide learning through real hub challenges.
The pilot can be expanded through further workshops, local adaptations, or thematic spin-off pilots focused on circularity, community engagement, behavior change, or infrastructure-related sustainability challenges.
Pilot timeline:
September 2025 (completed):
Workshop 1 — Introduction to CYANOTYPES, co-creation, sustainability visioning, and stakeholder mapping.
October–December 2025:
Internal hub work, reflection, and preparation of sustainability actions.
December 2025:
Workshop 2 — Complex problem framing, prototyping, behavior-change design, and action planning.
January 2026:
Consolidation of outputs, reporting, quality assurance, and dissemination of results.
Potential impact of the Pilot:
Innovation: Generate implementable sustainability strategies through iterative learning.
Learning / Skills: Upskilling hubs in foresight, complex problem framing, action planning, and behavior-change methods.
Network: Surface shared needs that can shape future EU-wide capacity programs. Facilitation of cross-hub peer learning around sustainability challenges.
Societal: Encourage life-long learning through reflective, values-based sustainability work. Implementation and improvement of behavior-change strategies.
Other: Provide evidence for understanding and shaping a competence- based Sustainability Manager profile for wider sector adoption.
“Creativity is not just a skill; it is a form of agency. The world is changing quickly, and we need frameworks that anticipate change.”
— David Crombie, CYANOTYPES Project Coordinator
Take the challenge: Run a CYANOTYPES Pilot
The CYANOTYPES team invites networks and institutions to take the next step. Lead the transformation by testing and adapting the CYANOTYPES Framework in your own context through tailored Open Pilots.
Start by exploring the CYANOTYPES Toolkit, a practical resource offering frameworks, cards, and templates to guide your organisation through its own journey of unlearning and relearning.
If you are interested in piloting the CYANOTYPES Framework, register here. CYANOTYPES partners will get in touch with you.
Discover examples from partner pilots and scenarios that may help you design your own pilot:
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