Supporting Cultural Placemaking Across a Region
Durham is one of the largest counties in the UK, 2,700 sq km, vast rural areas, post-industrial towns and a university city, home to an ancient cathedral and a UNESCO world heritage site. It has a proud past but a more challenged future.
Place Lab was initially developed as a concept to support local connectivity for a county-wide city of culture bid. The bid wasn’t successful, but the Place Lab idea took root in local communities and with policy-makers; the local authority and the university realised the concept could transform local place-making, community decision-making and economic agency with culture at its heart. Now at feasibility stage, Place Labs are planned in 13 towns. Each will be autonomous and locally defined, connected to each other through a research hub. This is creative practice as an agent of change at scale in a large yet local geography with built-in learning and exchange."
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About the Creative Bureaucracy Festival:
The Creative Bureaucracy Festival’s second Digital Kick-Off Day on 23 March 2023 counted almost 2,000 digital participants from 77 countries, with 40 programme sessions and over 100 speakers from 20 countries, as well as over 10,000 votes cast to elect this year’s community voting winners! Every year the free online event offers a packed programme of inspiring examples of creative bureaucracy in action for everyone across the globe – offering an additional platform for forward-thinking ideas and projects prior to the live festival in Berlin in June.
The Creative Bureaucracy Festival puts excellent, creative solutions to community issues and the people behind them in the limelight. Everything from small adjustments to big visions for the future are highlighted! The festival represents a shift from a “no because” culture to a “yes if” culture that embraces experimentation and new ideas. In doing so, the festival aims to refresh the reputation of public administrations and appeal to imaginative new talent.
