Know Your Worth: Insights from the FAIR P(L)AY #3 event

The last edition of the FAIR P(L)AY events, taking place during Dutch Design Week, focused on questions such as: how do you establish yourself as a designer? What makes a professional? How do you know how much your work is worth? How does this affect your creative practice? As an artist or designer, unpaid work for “exposure” or compensations below the minimum wage in the form of vouchers still seems commonplace. It’s time to change this.

Fortunately, there are some warmly welcomed promising policy developments for the cultural field. A quick glimpse at the news shows that fair remuneration for cultural workers features on the agenda, both in the Dutch sector and in the European Parliament.

In the meantime, the voice of the cultural workers directed at funders rings loudly for fairness and a better understanding of the value of artistic work, in Platform BK's so-called Call to Open Calls.