Introductory slides for Work Package 3, examining the governance of cultural intermediation

1. WP3: The Governance of Cultural Intermediation
Dr Beth Perry
Senior Research Fellow and Associate Director Centre for Sustainable Urban and
Regional Futures (SURF), University of Salford Manchester

2. Aims and objectives
To critically evaluate the role of intermediaries in the changing governance of cultural
economy initiatives and how different actors undertaking cultural intermediation operate
What?
Changing governance of cultural economy and content of cultural economy
initiatives
Who?
Types and roles of cultural intermediation, resources, connections
Why?
Rationales and assumptions underpinning policy and practice
How?
Performing cultural intermediation in a changing context

3. Why does this matter?
Public sector funding cuts, localism and ‘Big Society’
Institutional support for capacity-building within communities
shifting
CI cannot be understood without analysing contemporary
governance and policy landscape
What and how? Actual and potential…

4. How does this contribute to the project and other
work packages?
WP0: Theory and practice of cultural intermediaries, typologies and framings
(‘cultural intermediaries’; ‘cultural economies’; ‘communities’)
WP1: Values, assumptions and rationales; best practices; mapping and
evaluation
WP2: historical WP 3: role of WP 4: formal, WP 5: guiding
/ contemporary state, cultural conditions and frameworks for
analysis, economy and contexts, framing interventions and
2005-2015 role of cities community local panels
WP 6: contribution to reflexive process, seminar, policy briefings and best
practices

5. What are the main research questions?

6. What methods and approaches will be
used?
Starting point of governance/institutional analysis – regulative, cognitive and
normative analysis – but influenced by RF
National interviews (10) – ACE, RSA, DCMS, Creative Partnerships, A-N etc
Mapping local landscapes: policy frameworks, organisations, networks,
individuals, communities
Case studies of forms of cultural intermediation informed by/informing WPs
1-5 – involving mini-placements and work shadowing as part of above
25 local interviews in each city-region
Diaries and biographies with 10 cultural intermediaries in each city-region
and focus group
1 day policy/academic workshop through seminar series (WP6)
Exhibition of materials
Legal frameworks analysis / PhD

7. Partners, stakeholders and communities
FIGURE 1
Policy-makers/Influencers International
DCMS; Mcr and Bham City
Councils; Core Cities; British
Council; NESTA
Artists/Creatives/Independent
Intermediaries Festivals/Events/Venues/Sites
Mitra Memarzia; Chris Jam; Manchester International
Laura Drane; Ruth Daniel; Festival; Unconvention;
Sheni Ravji-Smith Islington Mill; Media City
Communities
WP4/5
Intermediary Organisations Arts and Cultural Delivery
Visiting Arts; Creative Organisations
Partnerships; AIR; Community Sampad; Brighter Sounds;
Development Trust; NHS; Arts Unity Radio; BBC; B’ham
Council; Voluntary Arts Museums / Galleries /Library
Network; RSA BBC;
Academic
Tony Whyton; Paul
Benneworth; Louis Moreno;
Justin O’Connor; Malcolm
Eames
Links to EU HERA
network; AHRC
Creative City Network Local

8. Outputs
Journal articles on governance, cities, cultural
economy and cultural intermediaries
Policy and practice briefings
Workshop on intermediaries in the cultural
economy
Materials generated for exhibition and
multiplatform content
UK conference paper
Contributions to other aspects of project
(evaluation frameworks/best practices/guidance)