Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals (UK/Brazil)

该项目将通过与巴西圣保罗的政府、学术和创意行业合作伙伴合作，为新的公共资助创意中心的设计和运营提供信息，从而为国际发展做出贡献。创意、数字包容和日益增长的创意经济的有益社会影响是圣保罗州发展目标的关键。国家过去在可利用的信息技术设施方面进行了大量投资，使弱势社区能够获得数字技术，现在认识到数字包容本身不足以实现其发展目标，因此正在寻求将这些设施重新用作创意中心，以支持创业活动，促进中小企业之间的网络和合作，并为圣保罗州的弱势社区创造积极的经济成果。他们对与伦敦创意工作室(CWL)和圣保罗大学(USP)的研究人员合作非常感兴趣，以告知他们将采用的方法，以促进其创意中心内的共同创作、网络和合作，并将此视为未来更重要和更持续的合作的试点。该项目建立在2012-16年AHRC资助的CWL项目内对创意中心的研究基础上。这项研究已在国际上广泛传播。2015年，USP的研究伙伴参加了一次研讨会，探讨CWL的方法和与创意中心有关的研究结果。CWL Pi(Shiach)于2016年5月在圣保罗举行的ABRAPCORP会议(通信和文化产业)上发表了主题演讲。此次调研访问得到了人民宫项目(PPP)的支持，该项目在英国和巴西的合作中有着突出的记录，重点是文化和创意。该项目将支持知识交流，对圣保罗的文化和创意组织和企业产生影响。它将通过研究CWL项目的一些主要研究成果如何对世界其他城市--特别是全球南部--的政策发展做出重要贡献，来提高原始CWL项目的价值。该项目将通过重点关注两个领域，为联合国可持续发展目标做出贡献：目标8，“促进持续、包容和可持续的经济增长、充分和生产性就业以及所有人的体面工作”；目标11，“使城市和人类住区具有包容性、安全性、复原力和可持续性”。就艺术和人文研究对国际发展的贡献而言，这项建议将在两个领域做出贡献：第一，支持官方发展援助受援国的新兴创意经济、创意实践和创意中心；第二，开发艺术和人文研究的潜力，促进圣保罗高等教育机构、州政府和创意中小企业之间的知识交流。

This project will contribute to international development by working with governmental, academic, and creative industry partners in Sao Paulo, Brazil to inform the design and operation of new publicly funded creative hubs. Creativity, digital inclusion, and the beneficial social impacts of a growing creative economy are key to the development goals of the State of Sao Paulo. Having invested significantly in the past in accessible IT facilities to enable access to digital technologies for disadvantaged communities, the State now recognises that digital inclusion is insufficient in itself to achieve their development goals, and is thus seeking to re-purpose these facilities as Creative Hubs that can support entrepreneurial activity, facilitate networking and collaboration between SMEs, and generate positive economic outcomes for disadvantaged communities within the State of Sao Paulo. They have a strong interest in working with researchers from Creativeworks London (CWL) and from the University of Sao Paulo (USP) to inform the methodology they will adopt to facilitate co-creation, networking, and collaboration within their creative hubs, and see this as a pilot for more significant and sustained collaborations in the future. This project builds on research into creative hubs undertaken within the AHRC-funded CWL project from 2012-16. This research has been widely disseminated internationally. Research partners from the USP participated in a workshop exploring the CWL methodology and research findings related to creative hubs in 2015. The CWL PI (Shiach) gave a keynote lecture at the ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication and Cultural Industries) in Sao Paulo in May 2016. This research visit was supported by People's Palace Projects (PPP), which has an outstanding record of UK/Brazil collaboration with a focus on culture and creativity. This project will support knowledge exchange with an impact on cultural and creative organisations and businesses in Sao Paulo. It will enhance the value of the original CWL project by examining how some of its major research findings can make an important contribution to policy development in other cities around the world - especially in the Global South. The project will contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals by focusing on two areas: Goal 8, 'promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all'; and Goal 11, 'make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable'. In terms of the contribution that Arts and Humanities research can make to international development, this proposal will make a contribution in two areas: first, by supporting emerging creative economies, creative practices and creative hubs in ODA recipient countries; and second, by developing the potential for arts and humanities research to catalyse knowledge exchange between higher education institutions, state government, and creative SMEs in Sao Paulo.