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Best practice guide for the CITIES network Progress report 02.07.10 Friday, 2 July 2010

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Best practice guide for the

CITIES networkProgress report 02.07.10

Friday, 2 July 2010

A recap...

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What’s needed?

• A summary of what we’ve learned from the partnership

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What’s needed?

• A summary of what we’ve learned from the partnership

• Helpful advice to municipalities and other partners of how to support the creative industries

Friday, 2 July 2010

What’s needed?

• A summary of what we’ve learned from the partnership

• Helpful advice to municipalities and other partners of how to support the creative industries

• Focussed on the theme: converting “traditional” spaces

Friday, 2 July 2010

What’s needed?

• A summary of what we’ve learned from the partnership

• Helpful advice to municipalities and other partners of how to support the creative industries

• Focussed on the theme: converting “traditional” spaces

• A guide that’s going to be used

Friday, 2 July 2010

What’s needed?

• A summary of what we’ve learned from the partnership

• Helpful advice to municipalities and other partners of how to support the creative industries

• Focussed on the theme: converting “traditional” spaces

• A guide that’s going to be used

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“Best” Practice?

• Our research base is twofold:

1. The creative industries in our cities

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“Best” Practice?

• Our research base is twofold:

1. The creative industries in our cities

2. The experience of CITIES as a network

Experience of both can be used in the Best Practice guide

But does the practice have to be “best”?

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“Best” Practice?

• Our research base is twofold:

1. The creative industries in our cities

2. The experience of CITIES as a network

Experience of both can be used in the Best Practice guide

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“Best” Practice?How we define “Best Practice”

a) Where intervention meets or exceeds intended outcomes

b) Where unintended outcomes were positive

c) When the knowledge is transferable

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Format

• A wiki, to collect and add ideas

• Migrated to the CITIES website

• Printed as hard-copy (limited numbers)

• Case Studies with photographs, statistics and the views of the partners. (i.e. the guide should be qualitative)

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Content• Suggestions for other examples of best

practice should be sought by each partner and submitted and discussed at the Braga workshop (30th June)

• Partners are not under obligation to suggest best practice from their own city

• Partners can suggest best practice from other partner cities that they have observed

Friday, 2 July 2010

Content• Suggestions for other examples of best

practice should be sought by each partner and submitted and discussed at the Braga workshop (30th June)

• Partners are not under obligation to suggest best practice from their own city

• Partners can suggest best practice from other partner cities that they have observed

Friday, 2 July 2010

Content• Suggestions for other examples of best

practice should be sought by each partner and submitted and discussed at the Braga workshop (30th June)

• Partners are not under obligation to suggest best practice from their own city

• Partners can suggest best practice from other partner cities that they have observed

Friday, 2 July 2010

Content• Suggestions for other examples of best

practice should be sought by each partner and submitted and discussed at the Braga workshop (30th June)

• Partners are not under obligation to suggest best practice from their own city

• Partners can suggest best practice from other partner cities that they have observed

Friday, 2 July 2010

Results so far...Firstly, thank you for your hard work!

Friday, 2 July 2010

Results so far...Firstly, thank you for your hard work!

• You’re all adults

• We’ve learned a lot on the CITIES project

• Get involved and use the wiki!

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Conclusions regarding the shape of the guide...

Some principles:

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Principles

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Principles

• No work in the future

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Principles

• No work in the future

• Best practice? (again)

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Principles

• No work in the future

• Best practice? (again)

• A living document?

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The shape of the guide...

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The shape of the guide...1. Foreword

• Industrial History - a moment of transition

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The shape of the guide...1. Foreword

• Industrial History - a moment of transition

2. All about the CITIES Network• our aims• our process• creative industries definition (starting

point - Green paper split between “cultural & creative industries)

• who this document’s for

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The shape of the guide...3. A quote from each of the CITIES partners -

• the most important thing they’ve learned from the project or

• The one advice they’d advise others about to embark on a similar journey

• (with pictures!)

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The shape of the guide...4. Introducing the 4 themes:

A municipality/or development agency can facilitate:

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The shape of the guide...4. Introducing the 4 themes:

A municipality/or development agency can facilitate:

• Event organisation• Venue development• Market development• Workforce coordination

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The shape of the guide...5. Then present the case studies, divided into

the four themes:

• 1,500 words per case study (approx.) • Why “creative”?• With photographs, hyperlinks and wiki

annotation (so partners and audience/users of the guide to add their own comments)

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The shape of the guide...6. Conclusions - “Mythbusters” or “what we

didn’t learn”

• Clustering?• The shape & composition of the

creative industries?• How creative is “creative”• What if creative people don’t want to

be businesses?• One size fits all?

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The shape of the guide...

1. Foreword: Industrial History2. All about the CITIES Network3. CITIES partners “take aways”4. Introducing the 4 themes5. The case studies6. Conclusions - “Mythbusters”

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These arrows are

the interventions

This block is the various creative

and cultural industries &

This project is more interested

in the interventions

than the definition of the

sector

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So let’s talk!

Any further questions, email me:

[email protected]

Friday, 2 July 2010