Hybrid working: New research from Culture 24 drawing on the experience of nine cultural organisations.
Hybrid tackled a core challenge for the cultural sector in the 2020s, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. The project addressed how, as a sector and a society, the pandemic forced us to fundamentally question and rethink how we work. The forced experiments with remote working in 2020 and the hybrid working reality of 2021 posed a significant threat to collaboration, resilience, inclusivity, finances and more in the cultural sector.
The art of data: Empowering art institutions with data and analytics
Outputs from research with seven major US cultural institutions. The language is somewhat ‘corporate’ but the insights are great, including some advice around creating dashboards and thinking in three horizons (a favourite of ours).
Change is never simple or linear – you need to tap into networks and ecosystems
Thought provoking piece on change from the perspective of the Ukraine/Russia conflict.
Communities: Let’s Get Started!
A great set of tools and stories to help apply the ideas of Doughnut Economics to communities. Well worth exploring.
The Doughnut consists of two concentric rings: a social foundation, to ensure that no one is left falling short on life’s essentials, and an ecological ceiling, to ensure that humanity does not collectively overshoot the planetary boundaries that protect Earth’s life-supporting systems. Between these two sets of boundaries lies a doughnut-shaped space that is both ecologically safe and socially just: a space in which humanity can thrive. The Doughnut is the core concept at the heart of Doughnut Economics.
The arts in Britain are teetering on the brink. Here is my plan to save them: Nick Hytner
Couldn’t resist including this one, just in case you missed it. It has caused quite a discussion, some of which felt to Dawn like Déjà vu.
Why Nicholas Hytner is wrong about how to save the arts in England
A glorious, considered and welcome response from Francoise Matarasso.
Art is not binary, with good work produced by professionals and everything else second rate. It’s not even a spectrum. It’s a vast network, as large as humanity, of extraordinarily different and diverse creative expression and we are enriched by being able to explore it all as and how we wish. Art is one, humanity is one. Drawing borders in that interdependent network of life is simply to create sources of conflict.