City Change Through Culture: Securing the Place Legacy of Coventry City of Culture 2021

考文垂英国文化城市2021是一个为期一年的文化活动和参与计划。它是由文化信托市、考文垂和沃里克大学以及考文垂市理事会合作交付的。英国文化之城每四年举办一次，上一次是2017年的船体。考文垂年的不同之处在于，它如何将其活动定位为，首先，增加城市的长期文化参与，其次，相信这种文化参与可以为城市带来长期的社会，经济和环境效益。有人认为，这一年是一个“城市变化模式”，通过文化针对整个城市的居民和公民。活动是更多的社区为基础的城市周围比通常的大城市中心为基础的望远镜。居民们正在共同创造他们的文化理念，并在社区中心、酒吧、俱乐部、公园和街道（甚至是墓地）以及通常的剧院、画廊和其他场所参与各种当地活动。鉴于这一“大型活动”的规模、范围和性质，人们对考文垂的文化版本带动社会经济发展，为城市带来效益和改变。它会成为文化主导的社会和经济发展的典范吗？在这两所大学的领导下，开展了大量的研究和评估研究，并收集了定量和定性数据，以研究所发生的情况。这项研究的大部分内容都是创新的，它将如何收集证据，以及它将使用的证据类型，看看考文垂文化城2021年是否对城市产生了（持久的）影响。考文垂的经验、其研究和发现的证据在各个城镇、城市和地区都很有兴趣--因为许多地方都对文化非常感兴趣，认为文化是一种再生和/或发展当地地方的方式，是居民和人们可以快乐地工作、休息和娱乐的地方。例如，英国有20个地方提交了2025年成为下一个文化之城的意向书，该项目将支持所有关于2021年文化之城的研究材料，以便参与，理解和讨论。参与活动计划的对象是那些申办和/或花费公款购买地方的组织和人士。无论是在当地，像考文垂市理事会和合作伙伴在城市感兴趣的文化，但也，全国各地的地方，如城市的文化2025投标人。其目的是让他们在计划和投标中使用文化主导发展研究的新知识。这些组织参与了为该项目规划的一系列知识交流活动，包括他们自己的知识交流冠军、闪电会谈、示范活动、知识咖啡馆/沙坑，以及向研究人员提出具体问题的设施。由考文垂大学与沃里克大学合作领导，该项目将在2021 - 2022年聘请一名专业知识交流官员，并提供预算，以支持与考文垂市理事会、考文垂文化变革和文化信托城市等地方和区域合作伙伴开展的一系列活动。

Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 is a year-long programme of cultural activities and participation. It is being delivered in a partnership between the City of Culture Trust, Coventry and Warwick Universities, and Coventry City Council. UK Cities of Culture are held every four years, the last one was Hull in 2017. What is argued as different about Coventry's year is how it is targeting its activity especially to, first, increase long-term cultural participation in the city and, second, in the belief that such cultural participation can deliver longer term social, economic and environmental benefits to the city. It is argued that the year is a 'city change model', through culture targeted at residents and citizens throughout the city. Activities are much more community-based around the city than the usual big city centre-based spectaculars. Residents are co-creating their ideas of culture and participating in all sorts of local activities in community centres, pubs, clubs, parks and streets - even a graveyard - as well the usual theatres, galleries and other venues.Given the scale, scope and nature of this 'mega-event', there is great interest as to whether Coventry's version of culture-led social and economic development will achieve the benefits and changes for the city it is seeking. Will it become a model of culture-led social and economic development? Led by the two universities, a very large range of research and evaluation studies and quantitative and qualitative data collection has been put in place to research what has happened. Much of this research is innovative in how it will collect evidence and the types of evidence it will use to see if Coventry City of Culture 2021 has made a (lasting) difference to the city. There is much interest across towns, cities and regions as to the experience of Coventry, its research and the evidence it has found - because many places are very interested in culture as a way of regenerating and/or growing their local places as places where residents and people can happily work, rest and play. One example is that twenty places across the UK have submitted Expressions of Interest to be the next City of Culture in 2025.This project will support all this research material on City of Culture 2021 to be engaged with, understood and discussed. A programme of engagement activity is targeted at those organisations and people who bid for and or spend public money on places. Both locally, like Coventry City Council and partners in the city interested in culture but, also, places around the country such as the City of Culture 2025 bidders. The aim is for them to use the new knowledge from the research on culture-led development in their plans and bids for spending on their places. These organisations have been involved in planning a range of knowledge exchange activities for the project which include activities like their own Knowledge Exchange Champions, Lightning Talks, Demonstration Events, Knowledge Cafes/Sandpits, and the facility to ask specific questions of researchers.Led by Coventry University in partnership with the University of Warwick, the project will employ a specialist Knowledge Exchange Officer for 2021 - 2022 with a budget to support this range of activities with local and regional partners such as Coventry City Council, Culture Change Coventry and the City of Culture Trust.