Relative Values

最近的研究表明，小规模的文化活动可能对社区有特别的价值，因为它们有能力发展社会资本和“参与公民”。当小型组织充当“枢纽”或孵化器的角色时，它们也会刺激创意经济，在这些地方，网络可以发展，工具和专业服务可以共享，创新可以得到激发。据认为，小规模的文化活动可以产生这些影响，而不会导致当地居民和文化生产活动的流离失所，因为依靠大型艺术基础设施的重建项目已经证明了这一点。该项目将对四个当地艺术组织进行比较评估，这些艺术组织的工作旨在与他们的领土接触，产生社会资本和积极的社会影响。目的是为这些影响创建一个参考模型。每一个合作的文化机构及其主管都已对其所经营的地区有深入和广泛的了解，而文化交流艺术所进行的研究和建立的知识和技能交流结构，更加深了他们的了解。这个新的项目后续阶段将使他们能够将他们的专业知识和学习转化为指导公共政策的工具：一个确定小型艺术资源如何孵化艺术和文化资源的模型，为个人和社区提供证明其价值的方法。Valiati和他在CEGOV的团队将培训来自四个地方合作伙伴的一名主要工作人员，以便在其他情况下实施他们为巴西文化部开发的创意经济评估方法。这四个合作艺术机构将在确定指标方面发挥带头作用，以衡量创意经济在脆弱社区中的运作和孵化方式。项目小组将建立一套共同的组成部分，使每个组织能够绘制和叙述自己的领土，其中将包括当地发展优先事项的指标；社会脆弱性与创意经济；公认的孵化器、加速器和社会发展倡议；文化和城市发展的证据。该计划旨在寻找有效的方法，建立小型艺术机构的能力，根据本地创意经济的具体情况，衡量和提高自身的文化价值；为参考模型创建手册，并从试点项目中获取文档/经验；通过曼彻斯特、伦敦和里约热内卢的公共活动传播双语工具包/模式；并与参与“文化交流的艺术”原创性研究的文化资助者和利益相关者分享这些成果。参与这一后续阶段的每个艺术组织都因其在发展艺术活动的文化价值方面的成功而得到认可，这些活动对脆弱的城市地区的个人及其社区产生了重大而可衡量的影响。他们还通过以往的研究项目合作证明，他们可以通过国际艺术交流学习和发展新的实践和观点。这个后续阶段将使他们能够与Heritage和Valiati合作，根据他们的经验和专业知识共同制作和测试一个模型，该模型将成为政策制定者和更广泛的文化部门在寻求刺激脆弱和边缘地区的社会和经济发展时的参考。这两个组织在各自的社区、地区和国家已经获得了尊重，再加上Heritage和Valiati为这次合作带来的合作伙伴网络，确保了从原始研究中学习的成果将获得更大的影响，并为更广泛的目的服务。

Recent research suggests that small-scale cultural activities may be of particular value to communities because of their ability to develop social capital and "engaged citizenship". Small-scale organisations also stimulate the creative economy when they act as "hubs" or incubators where networks can grow, tools and specialist services can be shared, and innovation is inspired. It is thought that small-scale cultural activities can generate these effects without leading to displacement of local residents and cultural production activities, as regeneration projects relying on large-scale arts infrastructure have been shown to do.This project will undertake a comparative evaluation of four local arts organisations whose work seeks to engage with their territory to produce social capital and positive social impacts. The aim is to create a reference model for these effects. Each of the partner cultural organisations and their directors already has a deep and extensive knowledge of the territories in which they operate, which has been enhanced by the research undertaken and knowledge and skills exchange structures established by The Art of Cultural Exchange. This new follow-on phase of the project will enable them to turn their expertise and learning into a tool that guides public policy: a model for identifying how small arts resources incubate arts and culture resources, providing ways to evidence the value for individuals and communities. Valiati and his team at CEGOV will train a key staff member from each of the four local partners to implement creative economy evaluation methodologies that they have developed for Brazil's Ministry of Culture in other contexts. The four partner arts organisations will be protagonists in identifying indicators to measure the ways in which the creative economy operates and is incubated within fragile communities. The project team will establish a common set of components that enables each organisation to map and narrate their own territories which will include indicators of local development priorities; social vulnerability and the creative economy; recognized incubators, accelerators and social development initiatives; evidence of culture and urban development. The project aims to discover effective ways to build the capability of small-scale arts organisations to measure and raise their own cultural value in relation to the specifics of their own local creative economy; to create a manual for the referential model, together with documentation/learning from the pilot project; to disseminate the bilingual toolkit/model through public events in Manchester, London and Rio de Janeiro; and to share these results with cultural funders and stakeholders who were engaged in the original research, 'The Art of Cultural Exchange'.Each of the arts organisations that will participate in this follow-on phase is recognised for their success in developing the cultural value of arts initiatives that have a significant and measurable impact on individuals and their communities in fragile urban territories. They have also demonstrated through collaborations on previous research projects that they can learn from and develop new practices and perspectives through international artistic exchange. This follow-on phase will now enable them to work together with Heritage and Valiati to co-produce and test a model based on their experience and expertise that becomes a reference for policy makers and the wider cultural sector as they seek to stimulate social and economic development in fragile and peripheral territories. The respect that each of the organisations already commands within their respective communities, territories and countries - together with the network of partners that Heritage and Valiati bring to this collaboration - ensures that the learning from the original research will achieve greater reach and impact as well as serving a wider purpose.