Cultural organisations can play a key role in creating thriving places for people to live, work and visit, but only if they reach out to creative partners beyond the local ‘culture club’. Penny Mills, Anne Torreggiani and Patrick Towell explain how.
‘Place’ is the word of the moment. When we look at the work The Audience Agency is doing, there are few projects that ‘place’ is not integral to. But ‘placemaking’ or ‘place shaping’ is so much more. It is about the needs of communities, localities, neighbourhoods, city regions and combined authorities that are coming into starker focus as we look towards recovery and rebuilding post-pandemic.
Whether the perspective is grassroots up (community driven or people-centred) or policy down... more
Lois Stonock planned the London Borough of Culture 2020 to respond to Brexit. Then Brent became home to one of the UK’s first coronavirus fatalities.
What does it mean to have a civic role in challenging times? Andrew Barnett and Deborah Bull discuss.
Swindon's new Cultural Quarter - an £80m development by Swindon Council - will be the first thing visitors see when they step off the train. Sam Rackham explains why it will be worth every penny.
Public art can connect us to the places, landscapes and buildings where we live. Lindsey Hebden explains what that means in practice for young people in the Lakes and Dales.