Impact And Legacies Of Creative Clustering: The New Culture And Education District, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

伊丽莎白女王奥林匹克公园（QEO Park）内的新文化教育区（CED）的发展提供了一个独特的机会，可以充分捕捉和理解文化主导的主要再生计划的价值和遗产，因为它们正在展开。基于过去四十年来在世界各地城市积累的经验，并依靠大量相关的英国案例研究作为基准，我们拥有了理想的条件，可以对大规模城市干预的多重影响进行前所未有的研究。本文提出了四个优先调查线（见图1），作为范围界定研究的一部分，将汇集现有的知识和数据，以便为更大规模的研究计划奠定基础。这项范围界定研究将提出建议，并提出调查路线，这些建议应成为纵向研究（理想情况下，5至10年）的一部分，以研究创意集群的中长期影响。正如Garcia（2004年、2010年、2016年）所广泛论述的那样，理解再生的多重影响需要一个长期的观点：1990年后的格拉斯哥、1992年后的巴塞罗那或2008年后的利物浦等城市提供了清晰的例子，说明文化主导的再生如何在5到10年后产生一些最显著（和可持续）的好处，并以多种形式出现。我们现在与这些城市联系在一起的“成功”不可能通过短期的“一年”评估活动来适当地捕捉到。此外，这些“成功”及其可持续性的原因从未得到充分解释。这在很大程度上是由于我们缺乏这些城市出发点的信息。这项研究首次从一开始就记录了创造性集群的影响和遗产，从而为捕捉“正在形成”的影响提供了独特的机会。本提案假设环境保护利益相关者正在进行基线研究，以记录其活动并填充关键基准指标。这项研究的价值在于提供额外的调查线索，以捕捉更复杂的影响维度，并记录中长期遗产的发展。鉴于越来越多的人认为艺术和人文学科提供了急需的补充工具，以捕捉和解释围绕加速城市变化的各种好处和挑战，AHRC在资助此类工作方面处于领先地位，这是及时的。因此，该提案将既定的社会科学方法与艺术和人文科学方法相结合。Beatriz Garcia博士在影响08（2010年欧洲文化研究计划之都）和2012年伦敦文化奥林匹克评估（2013年）中开发的模型之后，提出的四个调查领域和相关方法确实相互关联。因此，选定的研究领导将协调方法、数据收集和结果分析，以确保对最后报告采取整体办法。最终报告将汇集所有调查结果，确定协同作用，并提出一套联合建议，以告知人权委员会以及其他供资机构的优先事项。

The development of a new Culture and Education District (CED) within Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (QEO Park) offers a unique opportunity to fully capture and understand the value and legacies of a major culture-led regeneration initiative, as they unfold. Building on the learning accumulated over the last four decades in cities around the world, and counting on a wealth of relevant UK-based case studies to benchmark against, we have the ideal conditions to set up an unprecedented study into the multiple effects of a large-scale urban intervention. This paper proposes four priority lines of enquiry (see Fig.1) as part of a scoping study that will bring together existing knowledge and data in order to set the foundations towards a larger scale research programme. This scoping study will make recommendations and propose lines of enquiry that should form part of a longitudinal study (ideally, five to ten years on) into the medium to long term impact of creative clustering. As argued extensively by Garcia (2004, 2010, 2016) understanding the multiple impacts of regeneration requires a long term view: cities like Glasgow post 1990, Barcelona post 1992 or Liverpool post 2008 offer clear examples of how some of the most remarkable (and sustainable) benefits of culture-led regeneration occur five to ten years on and come in a diversity of forms. The 'successes' we now associate with these cities could not have been appropriately captured via short term 'one year-on' evaluation exercises. Further, the reasons for these 'successes' and their sustainability have never been fully explained. This is largely due to the fact that we lack information about each of these cities' points of departure. This is study is the first of its kind to document the impact and legacies of creative clustering from the outset, thus bringing a unique opportunity to capture impacts 'in the making'. This proposal assumes CED stakeholders are proceeding with a baseline study to document their activities and populate key benchmark indicators. The value of the study is to provide additional lines of enquiry to capture the more complex dimensions of impact and document the development of medium to long term legacies as they happen. It is timely for the AHRC to lead the way funding such work, given the growing acceptance that the arts and humanities provide much needed complementary tools to capture - and explain - the full range of benefits and challenges surrounding accelerated urban change. As such, this proposal combines established social science methodologies with an arts and humanities methodological lens. Following on the model developed by Dr Beatriz Garcia within Impacts 08 (European Capital of Culture Research Programme, 2010) and the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad evaluation (2013), the four proposed areas of enquiry and associated methodologies do interrelate. The chosen research leads will thus coordinate methodologies, data gathering and analysis of findings to ensure a holistic approach to final reporting. The final report will draw together all findings, identify synergies and produce a set of joint recommendations to inform AHRC as well as, potentially, other funders' priorities.