Mapping Creative Hubs in Wales
This mapping report provides a record of creative hubs across Wales, along with an overview of their role, their challenges and their drive to deliver social and economic impact.
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State of Creativity report
A Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre report now available in eight additional languages: Arabic, French, Indonesian, Mandarin, Spanish, Portuguese, Uzbek and Ukrainian.
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UK-SEA Creative Hubs Connect
A new online network connecting Creative Hub leaders, innovators, and practitioners in South East Asia and the UK.
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Facilitating Creative Collaborations
This course is designed for entrepreneurs and creatives who would like to improve the quality of engagement and collaboration to nurture a deeper sense of community.
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Responsible Design for Meaningful Experiences
How might we build a better world through design? This course contextualizes concepts of diversity, inclusion, accessibility, and sustainability within the design and creative process.
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Jakarta Creative Practitioners and Hubs Mapping Research
Jakarta, as the biggest city in Indonesia, is not only the centre of government and economy but also the centre of arts and cultures.
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Malaysia Arts and Technology Research
Following five months of research, this document examines the best opportunities, partnerships and approaches that could connect Malaysia and the UK through cultural practices in arts and creative technology.
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Mapping the Creative Economy Around Durga Puja Sept 2021
This research report looks at ten creative industries that drive Durga Puja, possibly the world's largest public arts festival.
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Arts and Technology in Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong
This research seeks to support future partnerships and exchange by offering insight into the key trends and characteristics of the arts and technology sectors in Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong.
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Informal Economy in the Global South
Research and creative outputs from 10 countries across the Global South.
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Making Space
Making Space is a series of essays commissioned in collaboration with the Barbican. The essays undertake a body of research into how arts organisations and cultural producers are seeking to become more responsive to an increasingly complex world beyond their walls, and play a stronger role in civic and social life.
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Mapping Creative Hubs in England
This mapping report provides a record of creative hubs across England, along with an overview of their role, their challenges and their drive to deliver social and economic impact.
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Creative Enterprise Toolkit
Are you starting or running a creative business? Nesta’s Creative Enterprise Toolkit is a practical resource to help you plan, build, test, communicate and launch your new creative business.
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Mapping Creative Hubs in Scotland
This mapping report provides a record of creative hubs across Scotland, along with an overview of their sustainability, social and economic impacts, their international connections and their inclination to respond to global challenges.
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Creative Hub Leader's Toolkit
We are delighted to launch our brand new Creative Hub Leader’s Toolkit, a free practical guide for emerging and established creative hubs.
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Creative Hubs: Understanding the New Economy
This report takes a closer look at the dynamic ecosystem of creative spaces and communities over the last 10 years to better understand their diverse value, processes and motivations.
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Creative Hub Leader's Toolkit Translations
Download our Creative Hub Leader’s Toolkit in a variety of languages for free.
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Enabling creative communities in Southeast Asia
This report is an external evaluation of the Hubs for Good programme led by the British Council in Southeast Asia between 2018 and 2021.
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Research
Intersections: Emerging creative trends across UK art and digital culture
A series of conversations looking at the ideas and creative practices at the junctures of art and technology in the UK.
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Toolkits
How to set up and run a creative hub
Hubs are co-working or cultural spaces focussed around collaboration and community. If you are looking to set one up or run one, the Creative HubKit has examples of best practices from some of the most successful hubs in the UK and Europe. It was created together with Creative Edinburgh and Creative Dundee.
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Toolkits
How and why to run a creative hack
Hacks bring together people to find new ways of looking at challenges, start to think about ways of solving them, and most importantly finding ways to collaborate.
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Toolkits
Find new ways of doing things
The IDEO methods cards have been created by design firm IDEO to inspire creativity, make it easier to communicate with your team, help you think about things differently.
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Insights
Introduction to the Creative Economy
First published in 2010, this is an excellent guide to the creative economy, its reach and impact. Written by John Newbigin OBE.
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Toolkits
Mapping the Creative Industries: a Toolkit
In many places, little is known about the size or location of the creative industries, or what their needs are. Mapping is the first step in changing this. This toolkit, developed by BOP Consulting does just that.
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Evaluations
Creative Connections: Playable City Lagos
Evaluation by Nesta of the Playable City Lagos project. Helpful things to think about when taking the Playable City programme to other cities.
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Research
Connecting Creative Communities: Creative Hubs in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines
Research published in 2017. Beyond identifying and indexing creative hubs in Malaysia, the research looked at the challenges they face, how they operate and assessed their impact.
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Insights
Creative Hubs Mapping Taiwan
How the creative economy in Taiwan is developing, with recommendations and outlooks for the future.
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Mapping Creative Hubs in Malaysia
Mapping of creative hubs, including what we include in the definition of hubs, background, business models and structures. It also includes a directory of creative hubs and spaces in Malaysia.
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Policy and Creative Hubs in Vietnam
An overview of the cultural and creative industries and creative hubs in Vietnam. Includes an analysis of where hubs sit within the legal system.
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Research
Innovative Peacebuilding in Syria
A scoping study looking at the strategic use of technology to build peace in the Syrian context. The research in this report reviews the global context of the peacetech sector and examines current uses of technology in peacebuilding initiatives in the Syrian context. Click through for the Arabic version.
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Insights
New and Changing Dynamics: How the Creative Economy is Evolving
This guide, New and Changing Dynamics: How the Global Creative Economy is Evolving, shows how the global creative economy is changing. Published in 2016, it is an updated companion to the 2010 Introduction to the Creative Economy. Edited by John Newbigin, OBE, chair of Creative England, it has sections about funding, finding your audience and much more.
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Research
Creative and Cultural Districts in Thailand
This report presents insights into four creative districts in Thailand, to better understand the unique features of their creative ecosystems and focusing on the interlinks between hubs and the neighbourhoods.
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Happy Nests – The social impact of creative hubs in the Philippines
This research exercise sought to understand the creative hubs profiles, dynamics and effects, notably social impact, in the Philippines.
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Situational Analysis of Creative Hubs in Malaysia
This study looks at creative hubs and community-based collectives across Malaysia in an effort to understand who they are, what they do, share their successes and challenges, and imagine what a preferable future could look like.
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Courses
Creative Communities Learning Lab FAQ
This is the FAQ guide for the Creative Communities Learning Lab programme.
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Courses
Digital Community Strategy and Management
This course focuses on new ways to engage and maintain communities online, building on existing patterns of peer-support and collective sensemaking.
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Courses
Ways to Monetise Creative services
This course brings together practice-oriented insights and knowledge from the UK and from across the Southeast Asian creative hubs community to explore innovative ways to digitalise and monetise creative work.
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Bringing your Training Online
This course focuses on online skills training, outlining the key steps of a typical design process, useful digital platforms, and pedagogical approaches that can help create a compelling learning experience.
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Research
Mapping of the Ethiopian Creative Ecosystem
A report summarising the results of research on the Ethiopian Creative Economy between the period of 2018 and 2021, commissioned by British Council Ethiopia.
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Research
Heritage for inclusive growth
Heritage for inclusive growth provides a powerful and timely model for addressing social, economic and environmental inequalities, a case made in this report by the RSA in association with the British Council.
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British Council Cultural Cities Profile China
12 emerging Chinese cities were mapped to capture the fast-changing landscape of China’s cultural, creative, urban and environmental sectors.
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Cities Culture Creativity
‘Cities, Culture, and Creativity’ (CCC) provides guiding principles and a CCC Framework to support cities in unlocking the power of cultural and creative industries for sustainable urban development, city competitiveness, and social inclusion.
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Insights
Creatives ZW Unlocked
This report provides a mapping of the creative industries ecosystem in three Zimbabwean cities; Harare, Bulawayo and Mutare.
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Research
Festivals in South East Asia
This festival research was commissioned due to a lack of evidence and data to demonstrate the socio-economic impact of the festival sector in the region.
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Creative and cultural industries in Sri Lanka
A study into the current state of the cultural and creative industries of Sri Lanka.
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Malaysia Cultural Insights Report
This Malaysia Cultural Insights report is intended to provide insightful information about the Malaysian cultural sector and wider creative industries.
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