Cultivate is an active core partner in the WEAll Irish Hub, helping to advance a wellbeing economy in Ireland – one that prioritises human and ecological health over endless economic growth. The Hub includes partners like Social Justice Ireland, FEASTA, Derry Playhouse, Queen’s University Belfast, the European Health Futures Forum, and the Irish Donut Economic Action Lab.
Within the Hub, Cultivate supports the Cultural Creatives Community of Practice (CoP) — a network of artists, activists, and academics using culture and creativity to challenge dominant economic narratives and help imagine and act for a fair and connected future. This CoP draws on the island’s unique cultural, linguistic, intellectual and ecological resources to inspire ‘wellbeing economy’ narratives in support of local and global responsibility for re-embedding our lives, livelihoods and systems within the social and ecological space defined by the ‘planetary boundaries’.
“New ideas are, thus, now required and, even more, their communication to citizens – ideas based on equality, universal public services, equity of access, sufficiency, sustainability. New ideas are fortunately available in the form of an alternative paradigm of social economy within ecological responsibility, but they must find their way on to the public street.”
– President of the Republic of Ireland, Michael D Higgins,
