Sports, Creativity and Social Inclusion. Open call results
In July 2010, the Consejo Superior de Deportes [CSD] (Sports Council) in collaboration with Idensitat [iD #6] announced a call for interdisciplinary projects promoting the relationship between sport and the social, cultural and creative areas.
The call was open to two categories, Project Laboratory and Project Bank, and addressed three types of projects:
1. Projects about physical activity and sports promoted by organisations, associations, sports clubs, local councils, regional councils, and autonomic goverments mainly concerned with social inclusion as well as social intervention through sport in disadvantaged zones.
2. Creative projects proceeding from different disciplines (artists, architects, designers, etc.) that organise or promote projects based on sporting subjects and with special orientation towar ds social questions.
3. Hybrid projects arising from the relationship between creators and organisations, sports clubs, social educators, etc.; proposing collaborative work and concerning subjects of inclusion or social intervention through this relationship between creativity and sport.
Between July and October 2010, Idensitat received 179 proposals for the category of Project Laboratory, and 80 for the Project Bank category.
A selection committee, formed by six specialists in creative fields and sports, was in charge for the selection of the proposals that would be developed in differents contexts of Spain. The committee met in Madrid, on November 30, 2010 and observed the quality of the proposals, which in majority brought creative and experimental solutions to the proposed framework.
SELECTED PROJECTS
a. Project laboratory
Street Games Centro Deportivo Autogestionado. Todo por la Praxis Collective.
Parc de Trinitat. Connectats. Collective formed by Sonia Abian, Sílvia Subirós, Diego Salazar, Florencia Aliberti.
CDAS [Comando Deportivo de Acción Social]. Iñaki Larrimbe.
Capsulas de rugby: una oportunidad para la integración, cooperación y trabajo en equipo. Asociación de Rugby “La Melé” Osonenca.
Publicitador. Irune Jiménez González, Dimas Enrique Agudo Carrasco, Marta Raventós Moix.
b. Project bank
Un espacio deportivo para la superación de conflictos. Asociación Almería Acoge.
La Liga de los olvidados. Pedro Jiménez, José Luis Tirado.
Sabadell PCV. Ajuntament de Sabadell
c. Honourable mentions
Juventus. José Jurado.
Barreras Invisibles. Ana Busto.
Morir de amor aquí. Marta Galán. TRANSlab. de intervenciones escenicas contextuales.
Ilímit. Asociación ACNE.
GOIAN. Ayuntamiento de Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Exposición juegos del mundo. Diputación de Barcelona.
Torneo Passión. Fur Alle Falle. Collective formed by Iñaki López and Vanesa Castro.
The selection committee was formed by:
-Marta Carranza Gil-Dolz del Castellar. Deputy general director of sports promotion and Paralympic sport. Consejo Superior de deportes.
-Santiago Cirugeda Parejo. Architect. Projects of collective action and international cooperation.
-Carmen Guerrero Martínez. Journalist. Cabinet advisor of the Secretary of State-President of the Consejo Superior de deportes.
-Gaspar Maza Gutiérrez. Anthropologist. Coordinator of the group of sports and social inclusion Plan A+D. Consejo Superior de deportes.
-Ramon Parramon Arimany. Artist. Director of IDENSITAT. Director of ACVic, Centre d'Arts Contemporànies.
