Resources tagged with place

Creating a sense of place: using creative facilitation and visual notetaking with Museum Development Midlands.

Creative studio Buttercrumble worked with Museum Development Midlands to close out its Sense of Place Programme, using creative facilitation and visual notetaking to capture the region’s museum impact. Through a co-produced memory map, practitioners reflected on their communities’ past, present and future, turning intangible themes into something visible and memorable. The session created space for … Read more

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My essential reads: The value of culture in urban sustainability

Traditionally, sustainable development has been seen as having three main pillars – environmental, social and economic. But what role does culture play in developing sustainable societies? In particular, it appears vital to consider the value of cultural heritage, as it relates to both the tangible and intangible legacy that we receive from the past and … Read more

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Evaluation report: Birmingham 2022 Festival

An overarching evaluation report of the key findings from the Birmingham 2022 Festival. This report represents the culmination of 12-months’ work collaborating with the Organising Committee for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games (the OC) to evaluate its cultural programme, the Birmingham 2022 Festival.

Culture in Crisis: impacts of Covid-19 on the UK cultural sector and where we go from here

Culture in Crisis shares research findings from one of the world’s largest investigations into the impacts of Covid-19 on the cultural industries. The research project was led by the Centre for Cultural Value in collaboration with The Audience Agency and the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre and was supported by the Arts and Humanities … Read more

Webinar: Creative places & new localism

How can cultural organisations and local communities work together towards recovery? This is a recording of a session from our conference Covid-19: Changing Culture? in November 2021. The conference shared emerging findings from our Covid-19 research project and discussed implications with practitioners and policymakers.

Place matters: Greater Manchester, culture and ‘levelling up’

In this article we examine how values-led partnerships between local government and the cultural sector in Greater Manchester have allowed for a place-based response to the impacts of the pandemic, and what this means for the ‘levelling up’ agenda.

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