Valuing and Evaluating Creativity for Sustainable Regional Development

This event is on 12 September 2016

This September, ICC Head of Research for Cultural Policy, Dr. Beatriz García, will deliver a keynote presentation at the Valuing and Evaluating Creativity for Sustainable Regional Development conference, which is being organised and hosted by Mid Sweden University at its Östersund campus.

The conference is designed to support and open the 10th Annual Summit of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN), and will connect researchers, policy-makers and representatives from member cities in the network in order to share study methods and findings, engage in dialogue, and advance the knowledge base regarding the use of creativity for sustainable development. Key research questions for the conference include:

What is the value of cities of culture, and how can this be evaluated?
What is the relationship between cities of culture and their surrounding regions?
How can the scientific community help develop guiding strategies and advance best practices for the UNESCO Creative Cities Network?

Conference presenters will be encouraged to address these questions or the seven Creative Cities thematic areas (crafts and folk arts, design, film, gastronomy, literature, media arts, and music) in their proposals, which will be allowed to pertain to any stage in the research process: from promising concepts, to works in progress, to published work.

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“Campus A4” by Britt-Marie Sohlström is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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APPG on Arts, Health and Wellbeing discussion event on research and evidence

This event is on 13 September 2016 2:00pm

The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Arts, Health and Wellbeing is currently conducting a two-year Inquiry, launched in November 2015 in collaboration with King’s College London and in partnership with Guy’s and St Thomas’s Charity and the Royal Society for Public Health Special Interest Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing. As part of this process, the ICC’s Head of Research Kerry Wilson has been invited to participate in a discussion event on research and evidence in the field.

Questions to be considered include:

How might we describe the existing evidence base for the arts, health and wellbeing, and how might this be broadened and deepened in the future?
How do we best describe the key challenges and opportunities regarding the existing evidence base?
Should the Inquiry attempt to give any guidance or policy recommendations connected to the way that arts, health and wellbeing projects are evaluated in the future?

Kerry contributed to a round table discussion on arts and prescription and social prescribing as part of the APPG Inquiry in May 2016. She is delighted to be part of this network on behalf of the ICC and welcomes the strategic leadership shown by the APPG in this important area of cultural practice.

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