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WE LOOK FOR BRILLIANT PEOPLE FOR THESE POSITIONS:
· FUNKY CONSULTANT IN ACTION (3)
· BUSINESS DEVELOPER & GENERATOR (1)
· FUNKY CREATIVE DESIGNER IDEATOR (1)
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On-going projects
TRIP ON YOUR CITY
Development of activities for the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz to achieve an intercultural experience and encourage positive critical judgment about diversity’s potential.
BILBAO.GAUA
Re-design of Bilbao.Gaua’s photography contest to provoke a more reflecting attitude amongst participants.
eraiki 33
To develop an image and differential attitude for the new Professional Initiation Centre of Lea-Artibai county.
SHOWBAR MANCHESTER
SHOWBAR is a system for the social and cultural re-activation of Manchester’s Northern Quarter. SHOWBAR is a meeting point that puts in relation brands and European social mentality mixing polemics and sustainability.
YOUTH AND HOUSING IN BASAURI
Social innovation and education project through the construction of apartments to let for young people.
GETXO'S COUNCIL YOUTH SERVICE
Ideation and development of social participation strategies for Getxo's youth during 2008.
SMART PROJECT SPACE
Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, brand's communication and participation strategy.
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Concluded projects
KAIXO NI NAIZ
Activation of an encounter system between local and foreign people, sharing inter-cultural experiences for a new social education that will generate positive memory.
iNNoVaNDiS 2
Colaboration with Innovandis program addressed to Deusto University student's, to promote entreprising attitudes from opinion and self-expression. The workshop will be in Getaria, Basque Country.
JAKI TORI TORI
Social participation action, in Durango, to generate discusion and provide new ideas around coexistence and inter-culturality.
EUSKARASHOWA 2007
Pioneering party event around the Basque language, meeting point for local people and foreigners. Its goal is to achieve a bidirectional integration, working through the complexities and nuances for a richer and friendlier living.
iNNoVaNDiS
Creativity workshop with the participants of iNNoVaNDiS program, addressed to next innovative entrepreneurs of Deusto’s University, to activate a process of social investigation.
BEGI BERRIAK
Social innovation design for the realisation of an encounter that will generate new sights, uses, and complex and dialogue-like citizenships, in a format different from the usual congresses, symposiums or journeys of technical and specialised contents.
BAPIKASI
Pilot experience of children camp for language reinforcement through innovative and attractive experiences witch will produce encounters between local and foreign people.
GAZTESHOWA
Pioneering event in the form of a congress-theatre, whose aim is to promote the debate among youth organizations.
OPENALDIA 07
Design of a free software promotional event from public institutions, to approach it to cultural practices from a non-competitive logic, regarding the difficulty of free software’s public identity.
NEIGHBORS
Social innovation design for the Immigration Service of Barakaldo’s city council. We work towards a bi-directional integration of local and immigrant people, generating meeting points and expanding social nets.
ETORKIT
Etorkit is a system designed to extend and share a chain of contacts. This kit contains the necessary elements to create an encounter experience among local people and foreigners in Getxo.
GETXOTIK MUNDURA 2006
Design of event's structure for a better understanding of the social work carried out by NGOs and Getxo Council.
CONVERSE FLAVOUR ICE CREAM
CONVERSE flavour ice cream, distributed in Bread&Butter Barcelona 2006.
WORLD DINNERS
Bidirectional integration project designed after a commission ofthe Immigration and Interculturalism Department and the Basque Language Department of Getxo’s Town Hall (Basque Country).
TRIAL BALLONS@MUSAC
Presentation of the "I LOVE LEON" project and our Online Shop.
MEM
Project to boost and to position socially the MEM festival with proximity marketing.
ADAM FUNKY FIETS
Smart Project Space gave us the idea and opportunity to develop a great project for ADAM, an ambitious public art show in Amsterdam.
INICIATIVA JOVEN FLAVOUR
We took part at the first International Meeting of Imagination's Society, in Mérida, Spain, producing an orange ice cream Young Initiative Flavour.
TALKANPADA
Superkongresua TALKANPADA took place from the 23rd to the 25th of September, at Vitoria’s Montehemoso Cultural Centre.
CENTRO HISTORICO FLAVOUR
We were a month in Mexico City participating in a project for recovery of the city’s historical centre.
MUSAC. CORPORATE IMAGE & SOCIAL PARTICIPATION
Design of a participative corporate image to get the visitors of MUSAC involved on it.
KISSARAMA
Attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the most couples kissing at the same place: in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
MAP OF THE FORBIDDEN CITY
Project inviting to take action and think about urban development from the perspective of gender (male/female).
FUNKY BASKENLAND
Thematization of the Basque identity conflict and identity as a whole.
ATHLETIC CLUB
Several actions to approach the club to it's social mass of fans.
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Research & Systems
KARMA CREAM
Karma Cream is an innovative system to transfer corporative identities into ice cream flavours.
KALIMOTXO, THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE
La verdadera historia del kalimotxo (The True History of Kalimotxo*). This book that takes a look at the Basque identity, its culture and its consumption habits, from the seventies to the present day.
* Wine & Cola drink.
TRICHTLINNBUG
This project takes a look at the way in which public spaces in Maastricht, Tallinn and Salzburg are managed.
EUSKARASHOWA
Karaoke party event system whose aim is the learning of Basque language by means of social participation.
SUPERKONGRESUA
Superkongresua system starts off from our interest in articulating communication networks and encounters that make possible meetings between different creative agents and their presentations in an accessible and informal way for the general public.
VOLATILE ENVIRONMENTS
Funky Projets showcase book, including pre-Funky Projects material.
FUNKY FASHION
Identity? Clothes? Trends? Cool hunting? Asia chic? Sales? do you know where and how those clothes you are wearing were made?
BIRD EYE VIEW
Make a postcard of its citizens!!! We have already done it in Rennes, Valencia, Andoain and Mérida.
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NEWS
Entre Alas 2008, Puebla, Mexico.
06-03-2008
From 6 to 8 of March 2008 we gave a creativity workshop in Puebla, Mexico, and a lecture entitled “Funky Projects: 5 years fighting” in Puebla and at Mexico City’s Centro.
Creativity vs. cultural patrimony.
10-09-2007
The 10th and 11th September Asier gave a creativity workshop around the subject of cultural patrimony in Braga, Portugal.
Kalimotxo and Creativity in the Basque Country
28-06-2007
Asier gave this lecture the 28 of June of 2007 in the workshop "Before the Law" directed by Martin Hardie at the Internationl Institute of Sociology of Law in Oñati.
Conference at the School of Art and Design of Vitoria.
18-04-2007
Conference at the School of Art and Design of Vitoria, presenting the activity of Funky Projects and our creative developments, the development of our enterprise and about conceptual design.
The Power of Enthusiasm.
11-03-2007
Under the title “Innovation, creativity, freedom and joy”, Asier Pérez, director of Funky Projects, gave a lecture at the 2nd International Congress of Fitness and Wellness.
Know Your Place. WHY DO I DO WHAT I DO.
07-03-2007
Conference at the working lectures organised by Midwest at Birmingham.
MERCH&PROMO. EXHIBITION&TALK
20-02-2007
Conference at the show Merch&Promo, where we took part. More at Merch&Promo.
Micro-sorroundings for Inspiration.
14-02-2007
Ixiar Garcia and Asier Pérez, from Funky Projects, participated as experts in creativity in 4 of the 12 micro-encounters.
The Creative Capital
07-07-2006
In the summer course "The Creative Capital" we gave a lecture "without hairs in the tongue" on the Basque Country as a creative surrounding.
Preguntas Reales. Conferencia en Centre Civic Sant Andreu, Barcelona
20-05-2006
Volatile Environments obtains iFDesign Award 2005
17-10-2005
Our first book compiling different projects "Volatile Environments" obtains iFDesign Award 2005 by its graphical design.
Estrategia Empresarial
05-10-2005
Economic Press increased our bibliography and is interested in Funky Projects, let see the interest of economic clients.
Looking Encountering Staging
26-09-2005
The bibliography of Funky Projects continues growing. Lisette Smits former director of Casco Projects and visitor professor of Piet Zwart Institute of Rotterdam interviews Asier Funky Projects about the company, contemporary art, creativity and risk.
Regions and Brands
20-09-2005
Diario de Navarra requested to Asier from Funky Projects his opinion for an article on brands, regions and soccer or bulls like vehicle. You can read the plaintext that Asier wrote and download the PDFs that finally were published.
El futuro es hoy
09-06-2005
We were in Pamplona invited by CEÍN to participate in a one day seminar. We talk on how do we work and we explain some of our projects.
The aim of the seminar was to encorage entrepreneur initiatives within what is so called emerging economical activities.
La hora Wiki
14-04-2005
The program “La Hora Wiki” of Canal+ broadcasted on April the 7th 2005 a video clip on our most wicked, waked, whacked, wracked, walked projects.
Funky Projects flavour ice cream
09-02-2005
We have presented the flavour Funky Projects in the fair ARCO’05 (Madrid), produced with our system Karma Cream. Total success in flavour, promotion of our brand through its frozen flavour and great media attention.
Open Doors Project Challenge
19-11-2004
Doors of Perception chose Funky Projects to participate in Project Leaders' Round Table the 19 of November 2004 in Amsterdam. The subject of the event was The Design of Platforms for the Social Innovation. Its purpose: find factors of success in the design of projects.
AUX Magazine
17-10-2004
Article on Funky Projects in AUX magazine of oct/nov 2004.
TRICHTLINNBURG
09-09-2004
Project addressing how public spaces are managed in the European cities of Maastricht, Tallinn and Salzburg.
SPUR 04
08-10-2004
We have an small insert in the last Spur.
Hit & Run
15-07-2004
Within the cycle Hit & Run at Platform Garanti of Istanbul, Funky Projects will give a lecture presenting different projects like the MEM03 T-Shirt, Trichlinnburg or the work that is being developed in Mexico DF.
SpeedSpeech
11-06-2004
Asier Pérez and Ixiar Garcia from Funky Projects, they gave a theoretical-practical workshop titled SpeedSpeech in the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Vigo the days 11, 12 and 13 of June of 2004. The theme was how the speed of new technologies they have imposed us in the production, and this affects the moment of a speech development.
Periódico de la Publicidad
21-05-2004
There is full page interview on us. It has been published the 21th of May.
New Office
15-04-2004
We have moved to a new office. How much does the space intervine for creativity?
Spark! and Cumulus
05-05-2004
We have gone to Oslo to participate in Spark! and Cumulus Conferences. The topic of the conferences was the analisys of new ways on design and locality.
Prizegiving
02-04-2004
We have sponsored the Javi Nevado's project Prizegiving.
Tentaciones
21-03-2004
There is full page interview on us published in El País, you can read on some projects we’ve done and others we’re working on.
New Corporate Image
01-01-2004
New year, new corporate image...
The bubble is about to explode!
27-11-2003
This was a Bang Bank action performed during Inmonorte, a real state companies fair included within the framework of Bilbao trade fair.
The action consisted in handing out plastic balls with a flier and a fruit jelly brick inside.
Someone said we were scary...
Printed Project
01-09-2003
For the presentation party of Printed Project we proposed the public to take part in a contest of making tortilla de patatas. Once the jury came to a conclusion, the tortillas were given away as a snack.
The magazine is published by Sculptors´ Society of Ireland.
Traumas and Funky Projects
17-12-2003
«De lo traumático a lo cool» (From Trauma to Coolness) is an article by Carles Guerra in which he describes some of our projects, including Kissarama, Funky Baskenland and works we.ve done for MEM. Guerra refers to our work in order to tackle subjects such as cultural globalization, the Basque conflict and the exportation of Basque culture.
Article appeared on December 17th, 2003 at La Vanguardia supplement Culturas (N. 78).
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