CULTURE & COMMERCE TASKFORCE LAUNCHES ‘FUELLING CREATIVE RENEWAL’ REPORT
The 62-page document acts as an urgent call to action while providing key details and solutions to challenges brought about by the pandemic.
The 'Fuelling Creative Renewal' report, launched by the Culture & Commerce Taskforce in February 2021
A new report published by the Culture and Commerce Taskforce is calling for urgent action from the cultural, civic and commercial sectors across London to work together to ensure the capital’s recovery from the Covid-19 crisis.
Encouraging a collaborative approach to regrowing the creative sector, the “Fuelling Creative Renewal” report looks at how each industry can play its role in helping to retain London’s competitive edge and in turn aid economic recovery.
Publica’s Founding Director Lucy Musgrave and Projects Director Lucy Pritchard both contributed to the report, which was put together by a team led by the Lord Mayor and made up of leading figures from across the capital.
“London has been hit hard by the global pandemic – new challenges have emerged for cities across the world and behavioural shifts have been accelerated,” the report states.
“The creative sector has been disproportionately affected, unemployment levels are rising and the City’s attractiveness as a place to work and do business is at risk. Only those cities able to adapt and help shape the new environment will thrive.”
Launched on 9th February, the report identifies three key recommendations for how culture and commerce can work collaboratively: Enable Creative Activation, by bringing London alive through creativity; Facilitate Culture and Commerce Exchange, by building skills and knowledge sharing between culture and commerce; and Develop Creative Enterprise Hubs, by providing spaces for cross-sector innovation.
As part of the Taskforce, Lucy Musgrave contributed specifically to a section named Secure Space, which looks at challenges brought about by the pandemic, such as the risk of empty spaces, workers missing human connections and a demand for improved public space.
It then sets out several key ideas and recommended actions, such as the ways in which innovative and experimental ideas can enable us to re-think how we consider and use space, and how the public realm and accessible lobby spaces can open new opportunities for artists and creative interventions.
This report summarises Phase 1 of the Taskforce's findings and from them, what needs to happen. These ideas will then be shared and tested, in order to identify the ones viable to be taken forward. The next phase will identify who needs to play a role, and how those ideas with most energy behind them can be made a reality.
Projects ⋅ February 2021
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CULTURE & COMMERCE TASKFORCE LAUNCHES ‘FUELLING CREATIVE RENEWAL’ REPORT
The 62-page document acts as an urgent call to action while providing key details and solutions to challenges brought about by the pandemic.
The 'Fuelling Creative Renewal' report, launched by the Culture & Commerce Taskforce in February 2021
A new report published by the Culture and Commerce Taskforce is calling for urgent action from the cultural, civic and commercial sectors across London to work together to ensure the capital’s recovery from the Covid-19 crisis.
Encouraging a collaborative approach to regrowing the creative sector, the “Fuelling Creative Renewal” report looks at how each industry can play its role in helping to retain London’s competitive edge and in turn aid economic recovery.
Publica’s Founding Director Lucy Musgrave and Projects Director Lucy Pritchard both contributed to the report, which was put together by a team led by the Lord Mayor and made up of leading figures from across the capital.
“London has been hit hard by the global pandemic – new challenges have emerged for cities across the world and behavioural shifts have been accelerated,” the report states.
“The creative sector has been disproportionately affected, unemployment levels are rising and the City’s attractiveness as a place to work and do business is at risk. Only those cities able to adapt and help shape the new environment will thrive.”
Launched on 9th February, the report identifies three key recommendations for how culture and commerce can work collaboratively: Enable Creative Activation, by bringing London alive through creativity; Facilitate Culture and Commerce Exchange, by building skills and knowledge sharing between culture and commerce; and Develop Creative Enterprise Hubs, by providing spaces for cross-sector innovation.
As part of the Taskforce, Lucy Musgrave contributed specifically to a section named Secure Space, which looks at challenges brought about by the pandemic, such as the risk of empty spaces, workers missing human connections and a demand for improved public space.
It then sets out several key ideas and recommended actions, such as the ways in which innovative and experimental ideas can enable us to re-think how we consider and use space, and how the public realm and accessible lobby spaces can open new opportunities for artists and creative interventions.
This report summarises Phase 1 of the Taskforce's findings and from them, what needs to happen. These ideas will then be shared and tested, in order to identify the ones viable to be taken forward. The next phase will identify who needs to play a role, and how those ideas with most energy behind them can be made a reality.
Projects ⋅ February 2021
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