Theme: Hubs and communities
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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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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Insights
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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Insights
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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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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Research
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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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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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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Toolkits
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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Research
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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Toolkits
Creative Hub Leader's Toolkit Translations
Download our Creative Hub Leader’s Toolkit in a variety of languages for free.
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Evaluations
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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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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Research
Informal Economy in the Global South
Research and creative outputs from 10 countries across the Global South.
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Research
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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