‘Creative Economy and International Development’, part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s International Development Summit ’Mobilising Global Voices’, held in London, June 2017. Chaired by HERITAGE, Panellists included Liz Moreton (Senior Producer, BAC), Marcus Faustini (Director, Agência), Steve Vickers (Project Manager, Contact Theatre) and Maíra Gabriel Anhorn (Territorial Development Programme Manager, Maré Development Networks).
These seminars were an opportunity for UK partners in Relative Values to reflect on the research process and share their insights on the research process to a public audience. It included representatives from all four partner organisations as well as public policy makers from UK institutions including Greater London Authority, Department of Digital, Media, Culture and Sport and Arts Council England.
‘Relative Values: an artist-led model for development of cultural and creative entrepreneurship in communities’ curated by HERITAGE, was part of the ‘Creative Economy Networks: Research, policy and exchange UK – Brazil’ Conference at Queen Mary University of London, 1st May 2018. Seminar session included presentations from: Liz Moreton, Head of Creativity and Social Change, BAC; Matt Fenton, Artistic Director, Contact Theatre; Isabella Porto, Director of Arts and Culture, Maré Development Networks; Marcus Vinicius Faustini, Founder and Director, Agência.
‘Relative Values: a toolkit for assessing the socio-economic impact of arts initiatives in urban territories subject to multiple stress factors’ was curated and chaired by HERITAGE at the University of Manchester, 4th May 2018. Presenters included: Leandro VALIATI, Visiting Professor of the Economy of Culture, QMUL and Director of NECCULT/UFRGS; Mariana Steffen, Research Assistant Coordinator, Creative and Cultural Economy Study Centre (NECCULT/UFRGS); André Piza, Research Assistant, People’s Palace Projects.
‘Relative Values’ was curated and chaired by HERITAGE at the Museu de Arte do Rio, May 2018. This seminar was an opportunity for Brazilian partners to reflect on the research process and share their insights on the research process to a public audience. It included representatives from all four partner organisations as well as public policy makers from Brazil including the State Secretary of Culture.
The ‘Relative Values Toolkit for Arts Organisations’ by Paul HERITAGE and Leandro VALIATI is publicly available from the Counting Culture project website.
The tool kit was devised by HERITAGE and VALIATI, in collaboration with the four partner arts organisations (BAC, Contact Theatre, Maré Development Networks and Agência) and is intended for use by other arts organisations interested in understanding and evidencing the socio-economic impact of their work in vulnerable territories. The learning from this project informed components two and three of this output, where HERITAGE and VALIATI tested ways in which the methodologies could be adopted in different contexts - by young people living in vulnerable territories (component two) and arts organisations supported by a national arts funding programme (component three) – refining the research instruments to make them more accessible and functionable for different artists and cultural organisations.