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Welcome...
Welcome to the Creative Workspace Toolkit
Knowledge and know-how about creative workspace. Designed for creative workspace managers, creative practitioners, arts development officers, planners, economic development and regeneration officers, creative industries development officers, agencies and business advisers, HE business development managers, RDA officers, Arts Council officers and property developers.
How this site works:
The toolkit is built around four "big questions". These are listed in the navigation bar on the left hand side of the screen, and further down this home page.
Sitting neatly beneath each of these questions are a series of Knowledge (information) pages, and Know How (skills) pages.
Which ever question you chose, the first page you visit will offer you
a general introduction, and an outline of the Knowledge on offer.
Similarly, each time you click into a Knowledge page you will find a
list of related Know How.
This structure aims to make your movement around the toolkit as simple
as possible, but shouldn't prevent you from just diving in and moving
around in a less linear way. To this end we have created a Knowledge Index and a Know How Index, so you can get a sense of the overall shape of the toolkit and get to the information that is most useful to you.
The Knowledge pages are based on the Inhabit research and have been
prepared by DCA with Burns Collett; the Know How pages are
based on various of The Management Centre's professional development
programmes, which they have tailored to develop the skills required for
creative workspace development and sustainability.
This is a temporary version of the "toolkit" that will form one part of a major new website that is currently in development. Funded by Arts Council England, and developed by DCA Consultants, The Management Centre and roomman, creativeworkspace.info will launch in autumn 2008. It will include places for those with a stake in the future development of creative workspace to share knowledge and know how, and will host England's largest searchable directory of creative workspace.
Now pick your question, and enjoy your visit!
The four 'big questions':
What is creative workspace?
Are you looking for creative workspace?
Why is creative workspace important to you?
How can you develop and sustain creative workspace?
Please remember, this toolkit is work in progress, and will form part of the full www.creativeworkspace.info site, which will be launched in autumn 2008. Please give us your feedback to help us make the website as useful to you as possible...
creativeworkspace.info images by Johnny Magee © 2007.
This toolkit is one major outcome of Inhabit, the creative workspace strand of Artists' Insights. See the right-hand column of this page for more details.
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About this site...
This toolkit, and the developing creativeworkspace.info website, are the result of over two years of intensive investment (of time, energy and money) by Arts Council England, DCA Consultants, researchers, creative practitioners, workspace managers and others from all across England.
Artists' Insights is a major Arts Council England development project, made up of six strands, which together aim to identify and provide artists with the tools to address common challenges and obstacles to creative and professional development.
Inhabit, which focuses on creative workspace, is one of these six strands. The others focus on: artists and the law (Interpret), improving financial wellbeing for artists (Influence), creative renewal for mid career artists (Invigorate), awareness raising of artists' skills (Inform), and innovative placements in industry (Interact).
The primary objective of Inhabit is to collect, collate, develop and disseminate a body of knowledge and know-how that could be used a) by those managing and using creative workspace to help improve the way they work, and b) as evidence by and for those with a vested interest in the future development of creative workspace (including Arts Council England itself, Local Authority Officers and Regional Development Agencies). Overall the aim is to ensure that there is more, and more sustainable, creative workspace across the UK.
This toolkit is one means by which the knowledge and know-how we have developed over the last two years is being communicated to the sector and those with an interest in helping to take forward the creative workspace agenda. At this stage the toolkit is work in progress for the Inhabit website, which will be launched in autumn 2008. Please give us your feedback to help us make the website as useful to you as possible.
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