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Slides from the Cultural Intermediation Project Continuity Day, 3 October 2014
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Cultural Intermediation
Project OverviewPhil Jones
Overall aim
To identify means of enhancing the effectiveness of cultural intermediation as a mechanism for connecting different communities into the broader creative economy
Cultural intermediation
• Split between creative industries and cultural economy• We haven’t been looking at the ‘sexy’ tech/media end of
creative industries
• Many definitions of cultural intermediation• Our focus has been on the
individuals/organisations/events whose mission is to connect more deprived communities into cultural activity
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
WP0 Scoping & Theory Building
WP2 Historic
WP3 Governance
WP1 Valuation & Mapping
WP4 Communities WP5 Interventions
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
WP0 Scoping & Theory Building
WP2 Historic
WP3 Governance
WP1 Valuation & Mapping
WP4 Communities
WP5 Interventions
Business registrations• Analysis by Lisa De
Propris and Sam Mwara• Substantial over
representation of cultural intermediaries working on creative products in London & South East
Historical review of intermediation
Big Story Interviews
Experienced intermediaries reflecting on past and present situation
Governing cultural intermediation• Reviewing connections / disconnections between
intermediaries and policy• Birmingham and Manchester/Salford as case
studies• Interviews with key players, focus groups, intensive
diary keeping
Community case studies
• Investigating culture as it appears on the ground in two communities with high IMD scores and complex issues• Walking interviews, community researchers, focus
groups• Ordsall: fragmented by infrastructure, divisions
between different neighbourhoods and Media City• Balsall Heath: much more ethnically mixed, major
problems with housing density, environmental issues, reputational damage via anti-terror CCTV / Trojan Horse
Ordsall
Balsall Heath
City Centre
Mac Arts
Digbeth
Moseley
Printworks
University
Edgbaston
Birmingham Cultural [budgeting] Pilots• Running 2013-14• Built on experience from DCLG’s Neighbourhood
Community Budget Pilot Oct 2011-Apr 2013
• £95k ACE/BCC/DCLG• Three case study neighbourhoods mapping onto
Community budget pilot areas• Balsall Heath• Castle Vale• Shard End
• £40k extension from DCLG/ACE agreed March 2014
Cultural IntermediationInterventions• Focus groups / arts interventions• How would you like to see your neighbourhood
differently?• What things of (cultural) value would you like to see
more of in your neighbourhood?
• Setting up rolling ‘panels’• Can a cultural intermediary help realise that vision for
change?• Panel members co-design proposed interventions with
intermediaries• Panels decide which interventions to fund
Outputs• Warren & Jones, Edited book for Ashgate based on sessions at the Royal Geographical
Society (Q2 2015)• Grosvenor & Macnab (in press) Education, community and documentary photography
in post war Britain. Paedagogica Historica• Warren & Jones (in press) Local governance, disadvantaged communities and cultural
intermediation in the creative urban economy, Environment & Planning C: Government & Policy
• Perry, Warren & Smith (final revisions) Revealing and re-valuing cultural intermediaries in the ‘real’ creative city European Cultural Studies
• [various other papers in review + working papers/brochures]• May & Perry (2014) ‘Reflexivity and the Practice of Qualitative Research’, in Flick (ed.)
The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis Sage, London.• May & Perry (2013) ‘Universities, reflexivity and critique: uneasy parallels in practice’.
Policy Futures in Education 11;5, 505-514• O’Brien (2013) Cultural policy: management, value and modernity in the creative
industries Routledge, London• Durrer and O’Brien (2014) ‘Arts promotion’ in Smith Maguire & Matthews (eds.) The
cultural intermediaries reader Sage, London• 5 international working papers online • Various national/international conference presentations• Ongoing seminar series
Opportunistic initiatives
• Joint seminar with MISTRA Urban Futures• Some Cities, pilot of
participatory evaluation• Poetic transect, Chris
Jam
Schedule
10.20 Dave O’Brien (City University): Participatory evaluation- lessons from a pilot study 10.40 Paul Long (BCU): Culturing communities? Understanding intermediation and locality 11.00 Jessica Symons (University of Salford, Manchester) Saskia Warren (University of Birmingham): Community interventions: process and progress 12.00 Reflections from project collaborators
Steve Mclean (Soul City Arts) Ian Edwards (St Paul’s Trust)Ginnie Wollaston (Birmingham City Council)
Schedule
12.30 Tim May (University of Salford, Manchester): Values, evaluation and knowledge 12.45 Laura Ager (University of Salford, Manchester): Universities and festivals - thinking critically about cultural production 13.00 Lunch 14.00 Guided walk around Balsall Heath 15.30 Wrap up