In recent years, there has been a resurgence of practices and activities that involve artists and designers as change agents in cross-sector partnerships. These practices are often considered separate from artists’ core activities and remain underexplored in research. This paper aims to classify these practices into a typology, beginning with a conceptual framework informed by initial perceptions of the field, which was subsequently refined through insights from relevant literature and expert interviews. The typology highlights the diversity of ‘change agency partnerships’ involving artists and identifies the exchange mechanisms that define each mode: transactional commissions, coordinated public (co-)production, goal-directed collaboration, and transformational co-creation. This typology serves as a heuristic tool for discussing, analyzing, and organizing the role of the arts in addressing societal challenges and driving change. As a conversation starter, we discuss what is needed for artists to assume the role(s) as change agents and how creativity and change within such partnerships can be organized.

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艺术家作为跨部门合作中的变革推动者：类型学

近年来，让艺术家和设计师作为跨部门伙伴关系的变革推动者的实践和活动再次兴起。这些实践通常被认为与艺术家的核心活动分开，并且在研究中仍然没有得到充分探索。本文旨在将这些实践分类为一种类型学，从对该领域的初步看法获得的概念框架开始，随后通过相关文献和专家访谈的见解对其进行完善。该类型学强调了涉及艺术家的“变革机构伙伴关系”的多样性，并确定了定义每种模式的交换机制：交易委托、协调的公共（共同）生产、目标导向的合作和变革性的共同创造。这种类型学是一种启发式工具，用于讨论、分析和组织艺术在应对社会挑战和推动变革中的作用。作为对话的开场白，我们讨论了艺术家作为变革推动者需要什么，以及如何在这种伙伴关系中组织创造力和变革。