Culture Commons has released its fifth Insight Paper delving into pan-regional governance approaches to explore how they may work in tandem with the wider ‘devolution’ agenda.
Culture Commons invited two of their programme partners and senior representatives from live pan-regional creative, cultural and heritage sector governance and delivery mechanisms to share their views as part of a special Knowledge Exchange panel.
Lorraine Cox, Director of Creative Estuary and Tom Stratton, Chief of Staff at Royal Society of Arts (RSA) shared insights from their own project experiences.
Lorraine hosted representatives from local authority officers within the Creative Estuary partnership who provided a rich account of what it’s like to be part of pan-regional activity.
In the Insight Paper, Culture Commons cover a few themes emerging from the session, including:
Building capacity in the sector: Pan-regional approaches have created hundreds of new commissioning opportunities, platforms and forums for networking and knowledge exchange which have been created and expanded over time. There is also evidence to suggest that they have opened up creative, cultural and heritage sector infrastructures to a wider set of sector actors.
Exploring Cluster vs Ecosystem approaches: We were able to explore whether pan-regional activity to support our sectors might work best taking ‘strengths-led’ approaches scaffolded around creative clusters, or whether new ecosystem approaches could offer an alternative route.
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