Composing Futures: Creative Impact on Eco-social Transformation

Forum & Co-Creation Labs / in the framework of Wien Modern

How can contemporary, improvised, and experimental music actively contribute to eco-social transformation? How can we move beyond critique towards collective experimentation with fairer, more sustainable forms of cooperation, coordination, audience engagement, and resilient cultural infrastructures?

The forum Composing Futures: Creative Impact on Eco-Social Transformation invites practitioners and thinkers from contemporary, improvised, and experimental music, as well as related interdisciplinary practices, to collectively explore how artistic work can respond to and reshape intertwined ecological and social crises.

Rather than approaching sustainability as an administrative or policy requirement, we understand it as an artistic, social, and structural question—one that concerns not only ecological responsibility but also working conditions, institutional structures, and modes of collaboration.

This forum is conceived as an interactive platform. It combines critical inputs with dialogues, participatory workshops, practice-based sessions, and co-creative labs.

Supported by: Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport, City of Vienna Culture