On Designing Innovations: Relationships Between Creativity, Ecosystems and Cities

Increasingly, environments that propose other relationships between different agents existing/acting in the city and territories and the reconnection with the place will design solutions for a complex daily life. In this work, we intend to approach these elements from a specific creative ecosystem, Armazém da Criatividade (Warehouse of Creativity), and one of its proposals presented this year, the MMA Challenge (Fashion, Music and Art). We aim to explore the pertinence of the existence of environments such as the Armazém da Criatividade in terms of stimulating, provoking and, sometimes, inducing the new in the territories/cities where they are located, producing other effects of meaning in the agents involved as well, who are provoked — directly or indirectly — into actions and projects for these spaces. Based on this relationship, we will also address potential connections between stimulating local creative vocations and reverberating this in terms of positive impacts in different contemporary territories.