African Hub for Sustainable Creative Economies (AHSCE)

该项目旨在通过开发有益于创意企业家的有价值的知识，并认识到学术研究可以为其可持续发展带来的价值，来支持非洲可持续创意经济的发展。该项目以AHRC以前的研究为基础，强调高等教育机构(HEI)和创意中介机构在发展创意经济方面可以发挥的作用。它将他们支持创意企业家的实践、网络和知识置于可持续创意生态系统的核心。它旨在使用新的跨学科协作互动模式，对创意企业家、创意毕业生、更广泛的社区以及政策组织产生重大影响。该项目建立在与三所非洲高等院校和当地创意经济项目合作伙伴平等伙伴关系的基础上。它侧重于他们的优势，即尼日利亚拉各斯大学的表演艺术(与Kininso Koncepts和非洲皇冠剧团合作)，肯尼亚内罗毕大学的时尚与设计(与肯尼亚时装理事会合作)，以及南非威特沃特斯兰德大学的电影与数字媒体(与南非文化观察站和南非银幕联合会合作)。该项目涉及“体面工作、经济增长、创新”等可持续发展目标(8)，但也涉及“性别平等”(5)和“可持续城市和社区”(11)。它将创造机会，思考新冠肺炎对非洲社区的挑战和影响，以及非洲社区的创造力和文化，走向可持续的未来。在采用伙伴关系模式并促进英国和非洲以及非洲国家之间的合作时，该项目还发挥了“为实现目标而建立伙伴关系”的作用。该项目还将进行自我反省，积极支持妇女和青年的参与。这将使参与者的多样性也成为创造力和创新的来源。该项目的活动围绕开发一个虚拟知识中心展开，该中心将成为学者和从业人员的参照点。该项目将强调在这些背景下，在文化、教育和社会利益攸关方之间建立平等伙伴关系和道德工作做法的价值。该项目分为三个阶段：(1)传播现有知识。这一阶段将侧重于使更广泛的受众能够了解和支持AHRC资助的以往研究的成果和结论，将图书章节转换为通过虚拟知识中心共享的一系列视听格式。(2)与业界发展新的协作想象项目。这一阶段将侧重于发展知识(通过与创意企业家和从业人员的访谈)，并支持非洲高等教育机构合作伙伴与其当地创意经济之间的30个合作项目。这些活动将包括协作性在线活动和创意协作代金券计划。研究人员将通过该中心跟踪项目发展并分享学习成果，还将创建故事地图来捕捉正在开发的知识。(3)对协作学习和项目遗产的反思。最后阶段将允许对整个项目所形成的整体学习进行反思。它还将集中精力通过在阿鲁阿建立可持续创意经济体英才中心(COE)的潜力，为该项目创造遗产。该项目的主要成果将是：(1)提高高等学校在支持可持续创意经济发展方面所能做的工作的知名度和认可度；(2)通过虚拟知识中心，建立一条途径，从高等学校和该部门获取协作知识。

The project aims to support the development of sustainable creative economies in Africa by developing valuable knowledge that can benefit creative entrepreneurs and recognise the value that academic research can bring to their sustainable development. The project builds on previous AHRC research highlighting the role that higher education institutions (HEIs) and creative intermediaries can play in developing creative economies. It puts the practice, networks and knowledge they have to support creative entrepreneurs at the core of a sustainable creative ecosystem. It aims to use new interdisciplinary modes of collaborative interaction to make a significant impact on creative entrepreneurs, creative graduates and wider communities as well as policy organisations. The project builds on equitable partnerships with three African HEIs and local creative economy project partners. It focuses on their strength, namely performing arts for the University of Lagos in Nigeria (working with Kininso Koncepts and The Crown Troupe of Africa), fashion and design for the University of Nairobi in Kenya (working with the Kenya Fashion Council) and film & digital media for the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa (working with the South African Cultural Observatory and South African Screen Federation). The project engages with the sustainable development goals (SDGs) of 'decent work and economic growth, innovation' (8) but also engage with 'gender equality' (5) and 'sustainable cities and communities (11)'. It will create opportunities to think about the challenges and impacts of Covid-19 on African communities and their creativity and culture towards a sustainable future. In adopting a partnership model and promoting collaborations across the UK and Africa, as well as across African countries, the project also engages with the role of 'partnerships for the goals (17)'. The project will also be self-reflective and proactive in supporting the participation of women and young people. This will allow the diversity of the participants to also be a source of creativity and innovation. The activities of the project are centred around the development of a virtual knowledge hub that will become a point of reference for academics and practitioners. The project will emphasise the value of establishing equitable partnerships and ethical working practices across cultural, educational and societal stakeholders in these contexts. The project is divided in three phases: (1) Disseminating existing knowledge. This phase will focus on making the outputs and findings from previous AHRC-funded research Understanding and Supporting Creative Economies in Africa accessible to wider audiences, converting book chapters into a range of audio-visual formats shared via the virtual knowledge hub. (2) Developing new collaborative imagination projects with the sector. This phase will focus on developing knowledge (through interviews with creative entrepreneurs and practitioners) and supporting 30 collaborative projects between African HEI partners and their local creative economies. These will include collaborative online events and a Creative Collaboration Voucher Scheme. The researchers will follow project development and share learnings via the hub, also creating storymaps to capture the knowledge being developed. (3) Reflecting on collaborative learning and project legacy. The final phase will allow for reflection on the overall learning developed throughout the project. It will also concentrate on creating a legacy for the project by scoping the potential for a Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Sustainable Creative Economies within ARUA. The main outcomes of the project will be (1) greater visibility and recognition of the work HEIs can do to support sustainable creative economies development and (2) the establishment, through the virtual knowledge hub, of a pathway for collaborative knowledge from HEIs and the sector.