Digital Culture Talks 2025
Join The Space two-days of key notes and panel discussions exploring the key topics and challenges facing arts and cultural organisations today.

Digital technologies are transforming the way the world operates. For creative organisations and individuals, digital tools are supporting innovation, enhancing creativity and opening up new possibilities to collaborate, share, tell stories, and express ideas and profile talent. Central to this is the role of creativity and its ability to inspire, inform, and record the lives and experiences of communities and individuals across all artforms and sectors of society.
As artists and audiences embrace new mediums and possibilities, we will explore the ways in which creativity is shaping – and being shaped by – digital tools and ask how digital tools can serve creative practices in ways that engage a variety of audiences.
Digital Culture Talks 2 will continue the focus of DCT1, providing opportunities for thought leadership key notes and panel discussions from artists, industry practices to include digital activities and technologies.
Day 1 of this 2-day conference will highlight and profile the work of creative organisations, community groups and artists using digital to improve access, inclusion and empower their local communities. We’ll also explore the opportunities and challenges of social networks and platforms.
Day 2 of this 2-day conference will examine the role of artists and storytellers in a digital world and profile the work of creative organisations, community groups and artists in the West Midlands.
Day 1 – Digital communities
10am – 12pm – Roundtable 1:
Digital Accessibility, Inclusion and Community
Convening, curating and enabling – community ownership, engagement and empowerment through digital
2pm – 4pm – Roundtable 2
Building online communities, social networks and how to mitigate against online harms
Exploring the opportunities and challenges of social networks and platforms to engage audiences and build communities, including the pressing and growing issue of abuse, misrepresentation and IP theft online.
Day 2 – The role of artists in a digital world
10:30am – 12pm – Roundtable 1:
The Digital West Midlands and Beyond – Local and Global
Most recently the region was awarded funding from AHRC Creative Industries Clusters: CreaTech Frontier, celebrating and highlighting the importance of innovation and collaboration in the creative digital work happening across the West Midlands. This is an opportunity to gather creatives and academics from across the Midlands and further afield to discuss opportunities arising and what this means for the region and beyond.
2pm – 4pm – Roundtable 2
Platforming artists and storytellers – why are artists and storytellers missing from modern discourse?
Artists and storytellers have historically played pivotal roles in shaping societal narratives and fostering cultural discourse. However, in contemporary society, their presence in mainstream discussions appears diminished.
In partnership with:
Birmingham City University
Create Central
HM Government
SteamHOUSE
West Midlands Combined Authority

- Date:
- Feb 12, 2025 - Feb 13, 2025
- Time:
- 10:30 - 16:00
- Organiser:
- The Space
- Booking:
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