Culture
Culture has the power to drive transformational behaviour: to achieve a greener future, we need to address culturally-ingrained mindsets and habits.
Impact One curates, develops and supports impactful cultural ventures in partnership with the leading creative minds of our time, to promote a paradigm shift towards a nature-positive experience economy.
Select Projects and Commissions
Impact One, through affiliated companies and subsidiaries, collaborates with globally acclaimed artists and architects, as well as with emerging talents, commissioning and creating site-specific art projects that redefine contemporary art experiences. Spearheading outreach to creative communities, we promote and introduce wellbeing and culture with purpose at the core of the city.
Sense of Healing
Developed in partnership with Impact One’s mental health initiative MYND, the artwork Sense of Healing was created to carry through our mission to increase mental health awareness and accessibility and bring new environments of healing into our cities.
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Tino Sehgal’s ‘constructed situation’ entitled This entry creates a platform that focuses on the subtleties of social encounters and the importance of participation and interaction. The work challenges the conventional artist-viewer relationship, inviting
active engagement and urging the audience to abandon their observer roles.
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“You’ll find school groups in museums and not necessarily in cinemas for example. They learn about the importance of objects, but we have a sustainability issue. Why are we telling our kids how meaningful and important objects are? We should also be telling them what they can do themselves.”
Tino Sehgal
Artist
“In today’s culture, we often see something once and move on, constantly seeking new experiences. But this endless pursuit can be overwhelming and disconnects us from our essence. Revisiting nature, like the sea or the forest, reminds us of our belonging and gives life deeper meaning. We don’t always need something new; sometimes, we just need to truly see what’s always been there.”
Lonneke Gordijn
Artist, DRIFT
“Architecture is a crystallisation of social forces. So seeing a misalignment between the two is not really a misalignment, but actually that architecture, for the most part, in most cities and places in the world, has been used as a force for separating people. But I think in being able to understand that, we also have to see and understand that architecture can be used as a force for gathering and for bringing people together.”
Sumayya Vally
Architect, Founder of Counterspace
For centuries, cultural systems have driven us away from the natural environment, transforming thriving ecosystems into the concrete mass of cities and infrastructure.
“We hold the false notion that life works through competition. It’s a concept we learned from individuals such as Charles Darwin’s followers, even though it wasn’t his preliminary idea. Competition is not the main force of evolution, the main force of evolution is cooperation, and cooperation is even more important in a stressful environment.”
Stefano Mancuso
Author & Professor of Botany at University of Florence
Winds of Yawanawa
A first-of-its-kind impact NFT collection, co-created by the Yawanawa and new media artist Refik Anadol, Winds of Yawanawa is a digital artwork series that represents Yawanawa culture and the relationship of mutual aid with the forest that the community fosters.
The project has made history as an OpenSea top-ranking NFT collection, having raised $3.5 million so far. Profits go directly to the Yawanawa community, and will be used to support long-term initiatives for the protection of Yawanawa territories and cultural heritage
