Place-shaping through cultural innovation
Creative Arc is a strategic collaboration between the University of Exeter and Exeter City Council to create a programme and network focusing on cultural innovation to shape place.
By bringing together interdisciplinary teams of practitioners, community groups, academics and Design Thinking facilitators, we explore the ways in which creative activity can contribute to ‘pride in place’.
Changing the world is possible.
Over the next two years, Creative Arc will commission creative projects that work within the themes of Health & Wellbeing, Environmental Sustainability, and People & Place-shaping.
Image: A moth made as part of Art & Energy Collective’s ‘Moths to a Flame’ project. Photo by Jim Wileman.
Opportunities
Over the next two years, we will be providing opportunities for creative practitioners, researchers, community groups, third sector organisations and the public to get involved with projects and/or join our growing network of cultural innovators.
Image: A model created during the RAMM About Town project, reimagining the High Street. Photo by Art Work Exeter.
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The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda and provides £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills. For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-shared-prosperity-fund-prospectus