Patagonia Colab promotes the collaborative relationship between its stakeholders and their projects, strengthening the collective impact on a local scale with a global impact.
Patagonia Colab is the logical consequence of the social, cultural and historical impact of a particular vision in the territory of Frutillar. This consequence arises from the growth of the created networks and the support of different stakeholders inside and outside of the network.
Patagonia Colab is created to extrapolate the experience achieved in the territory through sustainable, replicable and scalable models, strengthening and supporting the existing projects related to the foundation and managing from the efficiency of impact new ways of generating value for culture and its industries.
It is a lighthouse that captures interests in their innovation / enterprise, environmental / sustainability clusters, with cross-cutting areas of internationalization and creativity.
Commune located in the riverside of the Llanquihue Lake, Los Lagos Region, southern Chile, gateway to Patagonia and recognized for being a virtuous encounter between culture and landscape. It is located 1,010 km (626 miles) south of Santiago.
Population:
18,428 inhabitants
Area:
831 km2 (321 sq mi)
Frutillar is recognized by the UNESCO as a Creative City of Music since 2017, allowing its cultural positioning at international level as the first Chilean city to join. This recognition was the result of the collaborative work between the Municipality of Frutillar, the Teatro del Lago Foundation, the Frutillar Musical Weeks Cultural Corporation and the PLADES Foundation.
With 22 years of tradition and excellence, Teatro del Lago is a Bicentennial Work of Chile of 11,000 m2 (118,403 ft2), with 250,000 annual visitors, winner of 10 national and international awards where art, innovation, education and territorial development converge, understanding culture as the motor of integral and sustainable development.
The Foundation for the Sustainable Development of Frutillar (PLADES) is an public-private organization that works in partnership with the municipality and the community in the design and implementation of a sustainable development plan for the city, ensuring the organic and integrated growth of the city.
Kopernikus school:
A school for Frutillar and from Frutillar to the world, focused on innovative and creative education centered on the student, with an infrastructure with European standards and national and international acknowledgement for its model.
Kopernikus Lab:
Organization that seeks to extrapolate the Kopernikus experience, working with world leaders in creative learning with training and courses on creative and innovative education, autonomous and with a strong commitment to the environment.
To transform the development of our projects in Frutillar to models of social and environmental impact replicable to world level, promoting creativity and culture as fundamental aspects of human development.
The Patagonia Colab Foundation vision is to be recognized worldwide for promoting the efficiency of social and environmental impact in the territories with creativity as a driver of development, through a public-private collaborative approach.
To contribute replicable and scalable models of development for the territories with creativity and culture as a fundamental motor, focused on efficient, sustainable and innovative collaborative impact management, on a global scale, connecting the essence of the local with the world, respecting its identity and promoting improvements, facilitating the generation of innovative, sustainable projects that strengthen the territories and the creative industries.
*Patrick Geddes
