3. What’s needed?
• A summary of what we’ve learned from the
partnership
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4. What’s needed?
• A summary of what we’ve learned from the
partnership
• Helpful advice to municipalities and other
partners of how to support the creative
industries
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5. What’s needed?
• A summary of what we’ve learned from the
partnership
• Helpful advice to municipalities and other
partners of how to support the creative
industries
• Focussed on the theme: converting
“traditional” spaces
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6. What’s needed?
• A summary of what we’ve learned from the
partnership
• Helpful advice to municipalities and other
partners of how to support the creative
industries
• Focussed on the theme: converting
“traditional” spaces
• A guide that’s going to be used
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7. What’s needed?
• A summary of what we’ve learned from the
partnership
• Helpful advice to municipalities and other
partners of how to support the creative
industries
• Focussed on the theme: converting
“traditional” spaces
• A guide that’s going to be used
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8. “Best” Practice?
• Our research base is twofold:
1. The creative industries in our cities
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9. “Best” Practice?
• Our research base is twofold:
1. The creative industries in our cities
2. The experience of CITIES as a network
Experience of both can be used in the Best
Practice guide
But does the practice have to be “best”?
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10. “Best” Practice?
• Our research base is twofold:
1. The creative industries in our cities
2. The experience of CITIES as a network
Experience of both can be used in the Best
Practice guide
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11. “Best” Practice?
How we define “Best Practice”
a) Where intervention meets or exceeds
intended outcomes
b) Where unintended outcomes were
positive
c) When the knowledge is transferable
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12. Format
• A wiki, to collect and add ideas
• Migrated to the CITIES website
• Printed as hard-copy (limited numbers)
• Case Studies with photographs, statistics
and the views of the partners. (i.e. the guide
should be qualitative)
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13. Content
• Suggestions for other examples of best
practice should be sought by each partner
and submitted and discussed at the Braga
workshop (30th June)
• Partners are not under obligation to suggest
best practice from their own city
• Partners can suggest best practice from
other partner cities that they have observed
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14. Content
• Suggestions for other examples of best
practice should be sought by each partner
and submitted and discussed at the Braga
workshop (30th June)
• Partners are not under obligation to suggest
best practice from their own city
• Partners can suggest best practice from
other partner cities that they have observed
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15. Content
• Suggestions for other examples of best
practice should be sought by each partner
and submitted and discussed at the Braga
workshop (30th June)
• Partners are not under obligation to suggest
best practice from their own city
• Partners can suggest best practice from
other partner cities that they have observed
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16. Content
• Suggestions for other examples of best
practice should be sought by each partner
and submitted and discussed at the Braga
workshop (30th June)
• Partners are not under obligation to suggest
best practice from their own city
• Partners can suggest best practice from
other partner cities that they have observed
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17. Results so far...
Firstly, thank you for your hard work!
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18. Results so far...
Firstly, thank you for your hard work!
• You’re all adults
• We’ve learned a lot on the CITIES project
• Get involved and use the wiki!
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19. Conclusions regarding
the shape of the guide...
Some principles:
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25. The shape of the guide...
1. Foreword
• Industrial History - a moment of
transition
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26. The shape of the guide...
1. Foreword
• Industrial History - a moment of
transition
2. All about the CITIES Network
• our aims
• our process
• creative industries definition (starting
point - Green paper split between
“cultural & creative industries)
• who this document’s for
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27. The shape of the guide...
3. A quote from each of the CITIES partners -
• the most important thing they’ve
learned from the project or
• The one advice they’d advise others
about to embark on a similar journey
• (with pictures!)
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28. The shape of the guide...
4. Introducing the 4 themes:
A municipality/or development agency can
facilitate:
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29. The shape of the guide...
4. Introducing the 4 themes:
A municipality/or development agency can
facilitate:
• Event organisation
• Venue development
• Market development
• Workforce coordination
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30. The shape of the guide...
5. Then present the case studies, divided into
the four themes:
• 1,500 words per case study (approx.)
• Why “creative”?
• With photographs, hyperlinks and wiki
annotation (so partners and audience/users
of the guide to add their own comments)
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31. The shape of the guide...
6. Conclusions - “Mythbusters” or “what we
didn’t learn”
• Clustering?
• The shape & composition of the
creative industries?
• How creative is “creative”
• What if creative people don’t want to
be businesses?
• One size fits all?
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32. The shape of the guide...
1. Foreword: Industrial History
2. All about the CITIES Network
3. CITIES partners “take aways”
4. Introducing the 4 themes
5. The case studies
6. Conclusions - “Mythbusters”
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33. These This block is the
arrows are various creative
the and cultural This project is
interventions industries & more interested
in the
interventions
than the
definition of the
sector
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34. So let’s talk!
Any further questions, email me:
amissingham@me.com
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