Welcome to the Seed bank

Art and culture have the power to bring people together, challenge the status quo and create the imaginary and real spaces from which new ways of living together can emerge.

This seed bank gathers examples of people, projects and organisations from around the world doing just that. They are tagged in the following categories; well-being, democracy and sustainable livelihoods.

This is just a start – if you have a project for the seed bank, please send a link to rethink@missionmodelsmoney.org.uk

Imaginaid

7th Jul 2011
Imaginaid is a cultural platform whose mission is to support photography in raising awareness about societal issues.read more
Imaginaid is a cultural platform whose mission is to support photography in raising awareness about societal issues.read more

Imagine 2020

6th Jul 2011
The IMAGINE2020 network brings together performing arts venues and festivals across Europe with the objectives to ...read more
The IMAGINE2020 network brings together performing arts venues and festivals across Europe with the objectives to support artistic work that looks at the causes and effects of climate changeread more

Impact Arts

27th Jun 2011
Impact Arts is a successful social enterprise in Scotland, working with the arts as a tool for changeread more
Impact Arts is a successful social enterprise in Scotland, working with the arts as a tool for changeread more

Kandinsky in Govan: Art, Spirituality and the Future

11th Sep 2011
Kandinsky, who was one of the founders of modern art, sets out to confront the crass materialism of his era. In this, ...read more
Kandinsky, who was one of the founders of modern art, sets out to confront the crass materialism of his era. In this, he stands in the tradition of Russian art that sees "Art as service" - and specifically, as service of that ...read more

Learning To Love You More

7th Jun 2011
Learning to Love You More is both a web site and series of non-web presentations comprised of work made by the general ...read more
Learning to Love You More is both a web site and series of non-web presentations comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. The project ended in 2009.read more

Little Sun

17th Jul 2012
Little Sun is a work of art by Olafur Eliasson that brings solar-powered light to off-grid areas of the world. ...read more
Little Sun is a work of art by Olafur Eliasson that brings solar-powered light to off-grid areas of the world.   Little Sun helps decentralise access to power in the world by making sustainable light available anywhere. It promotes ...read more

Live Forever

30th Apr 2012
Live Forever (2011), by Los Angeles-based artists Oliver Hess and Jenna Didier is an artwork that covers part of the ...read more
Live Forever (2011), by Los Angeles-based artists Oliver Hess and Jenna Didier is an artwork that covers part of the façade of an LA County fire station in a metallic vine that mimics the local desert flora. Hidden within its mesh ...read more

Making is Connecting - David Gauntlett

7th Jun 2011
A book about the emergence of a ‘making and doing’ culture that brings us closer to things, other people ...read more
A book about the emergence of a ‘making and doing’ culture that brings us closer to things, other people and our environments.read more

MEMO: Mass Extinction Monitoring Observatory

8th Jul 2012
MEMO is an educational charity dedicated to building a beautiful monument to species going extinct worldwide, together ...read more
MEMO is an educational charity dedicated to building a beautiful monument to species going extinct worldwide, together with a biodiversity education centre. Conceived as a continuous spiral of stone, it will be lined with the carved images ...read more

Museums For the Future

2nd Jul 2011
For museums, being sustainable isn’t just about low energy lighting in displays. It is about so much more. ...read more
For museums, being sustainable isn’t just about low energy lighting in displays. It is about so much more. Museums have extraordinary opportunities to transform themselves, their visitors’ lives, their communities, natural ...read more