The Artisanal Heritage Studies and Creative Enterprise Center (AHSCEC) at the Philippine Women’s College of Davao’s KABILIN Mindanao Folk Arts Museum was one of the 15 and the lone Mindanao-based hub in the British Council Creative Innovators Program in the Philippines Batch of 2018. It has since developed and operationalized its Culture, Heritage and Identity+ Innovation through Science, Technology, Research, Entrepreneurship Education and Arts Management or CHI+ Innovation STREEAM Framework for creative enterprise. A grantee of the CHED Institutional  Development and Innovation Grant, AHSCEC is currently cascading its best practices to 5 partner state colleges representing each of the 5 provinces of Davao Region through the Tambayayong Hub Network.  A conduit of the Tambayayong Dabawenyo Virtual Festival (TDVF), THN will culminate on May 2021 with an Exhibition of the 5 Creative Hubs, a Summit and a launching of the THN Government-Industry-Academe-Society-Media Network.

Because of the AHSCEC experience and CIPF mentorship, PWC of Davao has institutionalized CHI+ Innovation STREEAM and expanded its stead to what is now known as  PWC of Davao’s Center for Innovation and Social Ventures (CISV). It’s service support units are:

• INSPIRATION: Kabilin Mindanao Folk Arts Museum and Studies Center
• IDEATION: Institutional Management Enterprise (IME) Curricular Program of Study
• INTEGRATION: Institute of Indigenous Science, Technology, Arts and Society (I2STArS)
• INCUBATION: Product Design and Development Shared Service Facility:
  • Food Processing and Innovation Center (FPIC)
  • Simulation and Training for Industry and Technology-transitioning Creative Hubs (STITCH)
•  INDUSTRY INDUCTION: Artisanal Heritage Studies and Creative Enterprise Center (AHSCEC)

CISV took after the CIPF paradigm and further envisioned its strategic positioning as “Mindanao’s center for culture-based creative enterprise for social impact” while also carrying on its mission as an “advocate in establishing a network of creative enterprise for social impact hubs grounded on indigenous and homegrown knowledge systems and practices.”  It hopes to contextualize creative enterprise models starting from Davao Region and positively with the rest of Mindanao’s indigenous traditional cultural groups and their contemporary communities of practice. The long-term impact is to strengthen an inclusive ecosystem where stakeholders of tradition and contemporary interventions co-exist as equals.  CISV’s CHI+ Framework is vividly expressed through culturally-sensitive intervention and utilization among the hubs’ design ideation and business incubation initiatives. To this far, the program has assisted:

• Institutional Management Enterprise (IME) Retooling and Thesis-to-Business Programming through the mandatory Entrepreneurial Mind and IME Courses for PWC student entrepreneurs (fashion , arts, design, food, hospitality, IT and education)
• Product design and development for partner indigenous artisans in Davao Region: Bagobo-Tagabawa Arts & Crafts Center in Lubogan;  Matigsalug MACOEMMADACI in Marilog;  Mandaya Women in Andap;   Blaan Women in Kiblawan; and the Tagakaolo Women in Malita
• Creative Policy and Program Development  for the Davao Fashion and Design Council Foundation, Inc. (DFDCFI) and its wider participation in the Philippine Fashion Coalition (PFC) 
• Capability and Capacity Development and Enhancement Program for up and coming designer-entrepreneurs in Mindanao through the design ideation-to-business incubation approach of Stellar Mindanao Young Designers Competition and Habi Kadayawan Fashion and Accessory Design Competition
• Online and Offline Marketplace Platforms in Tambayayong Dabawenyo Virtual Festival and Fashion Weekend Davao, which won a silver for exhibit and events milestones at the Anvil Awards 2019
• Sectoral Representation and Exhibition at the Davao Investment Conference 2019’s “One Thread, One Color, One Vision;” MindanaOne at both Philippine Business Conference and Manila FAME in 2018 and 2019; Davao Collective at Panasonic Manila Fashion Festival since 2018; Yuchengco Museum’s “Origins of Translation” Exhibition for DFDCFI; Tenun Asia Fashion Week during the 2nd BIMP-EAGA Budayaw Festival of Cultures in Malaysia; and the research paper presentation at the Borneo International Beads Conference (BIBCo) in Malaysia
• Mentorship for designers who have participated and won awards in London Fashion Week and Japan International Design Competition

The pandemic did not hinder us from pushing the boundaries and creating meaningful and hopeful beacons of challenge and change. After more than half a year negotiating with the five (5) state colleges in Davao Province, the hub organizing and networking program is finally rolling.  Fifty-four (54) academics and community organizers are onboard the 2-month intensive Tambayayong Hub Network CHI+ “Hub Organizing Capability Building Training Program” (THN CHI+ HOCBTP).  The program is grounding them to CHI+ Innovation STREEAM framework  in building their culture-based creative enterprise for social impact hubs in their respective schools and communities. The HOCBTP includes:

• tapokCHI+ Online Learning Sessions through Zoom and Microsoft Teams using applications like Padlet, Miro, Mural, Google slides among others with more than ten (10) resource persons across diverse fields in the CHI+ terrain who have been sharing their decades of experience and wisdom 
• Focus Group Sessions on Human Design
• Hub Organizing Workshop adapting the British Council Hub Leaders Toolkit and other BC resources
• Online Boot Camp on Project Management with ACT International LLC
• Program, Project and Product Design and Development 
• Mentoring, Critique and Incubation 
• Summit 
• Pentahelix Government-Industry-Academe-Society-Media (GIASM) Networking

The 5 hubs have the following themes based on their current initiatives (community extension or research) as well as their  available resources: 

• indigenous textiles
• indigenous arts & crafts
• indigenous food
• indigenous farming
• emerging homegrown technology, systems and processes.

An online platform through the Tamabayayong Virtual Festival has also been allocated to accommodate the online presence of the hubs. Truly believing in collaboration, the THN CHO+ HOCBTP program works across the GIASM network.  The program is ably funded and supported by CHED IDIG, NCCA and the British Council CIPF Sharing Grant.