We are a European crew made of artists, academics, entrepreneurs! More than 60 European contributors, from all generations and from 15 countries, came together to give reasons for action and build a common place for culture, creativity, and innovation in Europe.

In these times of multiplicities of changes—despite or because—a novel type of change is taking shape. It is a transition that empowers a real movement, leaving behind hustling from one state to another: thinking more slowly, more deeply, more from a 360° perspective, and more caring beyond quick fixes. It is a compelling story mixing art, tech, and innovation. Together it is all transformative.

This book presents makers and thinkers from the Cultural Creative Sectors and Industries driving this novel shift towards better systems in technologies and organizations, in cities and businesses and the public realm: that is what we call “The Next Renaissance.” 

1. Cover
2. TitlePage
3. Copyright
4. Preface
5. The Next Renaissance is a Renaissance of the Next - Are we the chicken or the egg?
6. Border Lines
   1. Small Organon (Suite)
   2. We are all Creative Tech-ers! - Why choose between artists and engineers
   3. Algae, coffee and plastic —materials the future is built on - Why Italy's Pavilion at Expo Dubai 2020 was a stepping stone for the Next Renaissance
   4. The cocktail of challenges for the disadvantaged in crisis - Making the case for the civic role of the creative and cultural ecosystem in a Renaissance
   5. New worlds emerge from old sounds - What we can learn from music about making new worlds when Man and Machine meet in new ways?
   6. Innovation Through Universitas - The new Pangolin scales
   7. Climate and Culture united in crisis —or in the Next Renaissance? - The Green and The Game changer
   8. The Curable Blindspot of Culture: - How Participatory Arts Ignite Positive Change
   9. A millenary contemporaneity - The Egyptian Museum of Turin as a role model for societal dialogue and design of a desirable future
   10. Stranger To The Trees - Hybrid art uncovering a new materiality in our world, for crisis or awakening…
   11. Renaissance 3.0 - A scenario for art in the 21st century
   12. The future belongs to the creative - How companies use the potential of the creative industries to stay innovative
7. Space Odyssey
   1. Photocomic: Ole Sondeka vs. Bw. Stache
   2. The Metaverse and its discontents - From contributing to the design of the information space to creative platform.
   3. Squaring the circle: a 21st-Century Renaissance - Beauty, epiphany, neurons
   4. Digital transformation as a second renaissance? - Towards digital humanism
   5. New Stages for Collective Imagination - The show must go on
   6. physical-virtual-virtual-virtual-physical-physical-virtual-physical-physical-virtual-physical-virtual-virtual-physical-virtual-virtual - In which Metaverse do we want to live?
   7. A Program for Culture at the Crossroads - Mission accomplished?
   8. Intellectual Property and the Industry Commons: Unlocking the Renaissance - IP forever
   9. The New Relevance of Heritage - Case study: The Pignatelli Chapel, Naples: How bringing past Renaissance alive with digital tech opens new civic and economic spaces
   10. Connecting People and Places - Why Culture-led Urban Developments are necessary for Resilient Cities
   11. Preparing Cities for the Future - What to learn from Amsterdam's inclusive city strategy
   12. Creating cities of greater resilience - On the changes in architecture's paradigms for a Renaissance of life in cities for citizens
   13. From the Station of Being to Societal Transformation - How design can drive a new European Renaissance
   14. Human-Machine Interfaces, intelligent systems and cultural heritage - Perception might be reality
8. Stake of Minds
   1. Viva la Nouvelle Renaissance - YES OR CANCEL NEXT RENAISSANCE
   2. Renaissance by mistake - Spirit, are you there?
   3. Of Poets, Human and Robot - Beyond words and numbers
   4. Arts Education for All - The Case of Finland
   5. Poetics in the Remaking of Europe - “Langage parlant”
   6. Design is an attitude: - The renaissance of an interdisciplinary mindset
   7. Is the show bigger than the art? - Producing Arts in times of revolution: Learnings from 30 years of Lebanon crisis about what artists might do and for whom in Renaissance
   8. Riding the rapids of the great transformation - The place to be
   9. The Next Renaissance will be globalised - Shaping the past, changing the future?
   10. Space race for the people - A call for a European Public Space Programme
   11. If there's to be a New Renaissance, let it be a Renaissance of humanity - (and let's start with the young ones)
   12. From crisis in systems to crisis of systems! - How can a new culture of research and research policy contribute to a post-COVID world?
   13. Renaissance, the world and Europe - Beyond the obvious
   14. Our Ode to Creativity
   15. Let's Chicken Out - A ready-to-rap text for all the Next Renaissance believers
9. Acknowledgement
10. Contributors
11. Contents