Beyond exchange: raising the value, increasing flow and ensuring socio-economic impact of arts & cultural resources in peripheral territories (Brazil)

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International cultural exchange combined with collaborative knowledge creation increases the ability of arts organisations to develop social capital and "engaged citizenship", delivering multiple socio-economic benefits for low-income territories. Previous research undertaken through the AHRC-funded project THE ART OF CULTURAL EXCHANGE: 2014-2016 [AH/M003612/1] produced research showing how knowledge mobilization between artists and arts companies in UK and Brazil produced dynamic and innovative benefits linked to human and social development. This new proposal will shift the axis of exchange, moving from between Brazil and the UK to across Brazilian arts and cultural organisations focused on delivering significant economic, social, cultural, welfare in low-income territories of extreme vulnerability. British and Brazilian researchers will collaborate with civil society arts organisations based in socially vulnerable territories in Brazil to develop resources, training activities and knowledge-mobilization activities for hyper-local cultural institutions in the creative economy of Rio de Janeiro's peripheral communities to strengthen and measure their impact towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals, with particular emphasis on: SDG1 (no poverty), SDG8 (decent work and economic growth), SDG16 (peace, justice and strong institutions) and SDG17 (partnerships for the goals). Drawing from the original research and by continuing on the pathways to impact that have followed, a collaborative British and Brazilian team will set up a and run a Cultural Exchange Hub for the Creative Economy in the favela-complex of Maré, and support a shared learning programme to train 60 arts leaders and managers working in the creative economy on innovative social technologies and methodologies that measure their socio-economic impact. The aim of the project is to draw from AHRC-funded research to strengthen the capacity of local arts organisations and create an engaged network across the city of Rio de Janeiro that builds alliances with key stakeholders responsible for policy-level decisions that can sustain development-focused creative economy initiatives.This Follow-on Funded project will take forward the innovations in creative practices advanced through research on UK-Brazil exchanges THE ART OF CULTURAL EXCHANGE. The hub and training programme will enable local producers, consumers and makers of policy in the cultural sector to construct new narratives of evaluation, facilitating civil society organisations based in vulnerable territories to enhance their work towards social and human development goals and to contribute to wider debates about how the arts create safer, healthier, wealthier and more equitable communities. The project has been co-created with two cultural organisations based in territories subject to high indices of lethal violence and low indices of socio-economic development in Rio de Janeiro. Redes da Maré [Maré Networks] and Agencia de Redes para a Juventude [the Agency for Youth Networks] will ensure that learning from the original research is put into practice by organisations using arts initiatives to achieve sustainable progress in multiple dimensions of human development across over 30 peripheral communities. The project has been designed to engage policymakers from government and non-governmental agencies in the co-creation of the evaluation indicators to ensure that the new evidence and data that is produced by the hub and training programme informs and shapes the creation of cultural policy that focuses on social and human development.This Follow-On project will mobilise knowledge, extend the impact of research and build a mutually sustaining network of cultural practitioners and policymakers that strengthens the capacity of arts organisation to address human and social development issues and demonstrate progress towards the UN SDGs.