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A new version of the literature review ‘Measuring the Impacts of Large Scale Cultural Events’ by Floris Langen and Beatriz Garcia is available to download from the Impacts 08 website at:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/impacts08/index.htm#BkgrndDocs
(This is a revised and updated version of the literature review that was published in Arts Research Digest to accompany our joint seminar in October.)
Following the success of the first AHRC/ACE Impact Workshop in Liverpool, the next workshop in the series will take place on 11 June in Margate. This second workshop will focus on an exploration of the physical aspect of audience engagement with arts and cultural organisations and events, with a particular focus on the experience in open air environments. For further information about the AHRC/ACE Impact Workshop programme, visit
We have now published the latest report from our Local Area Studies project, which can be found in the Reports and Papers section of our website at www.impacts08.net . This is the report of the second phase of a three-stage project to explore the impact of Liverpool’s tenure as European Capital of Culture on residents of four distinct neighbourhoods of the city. Reporting on a survey that took place in Summer 2008, it draws comparisons with the previous survey in 2007 and also builds on this with qualitative data from a series of focus groups. The link to our Reports and Papers page is as follows:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/impacts08/Dissemination/I08reports.htm
The four Liverpool neighbourhoods taking part in this survey are profiled in a background document, ‘Local Area Studies – Key Statistics and Mapping of the Four Local Areas’, which is also available to download from the Reports and Papers page. A report of the third and final stage of this project, based on a survey that was conducted in Spring 2009, will be published later this year and will provide a full analysis of any changes since 2007 in terms of engagement, participation and perspectives on Liverpool’s year as ECoC. For further information about all of the project work we are undertaking within the theme of Cultural Access and Participation (as well as all our other projects), visit:
We are happy to announce that Impacts 08 has been successful in a joint bid with Liverpool City Council to secure funding from the European Commission’s Culture Programme. The project, titled ‘An International Model for research and delivery best practice on the European Capital of Culture programme’, is aimed at creating a cultural policy advocacy network and will be run in conjunction with research partners from the ECoC cities of Stavanger, Turku and Marseille.
This funding will create two new posts, an International Research Liaison Officer based with the Impacts 08 Team at the University of Liverpool, and an International Programming Liaison Officer based at Liverpool City Council. We will be recruiting for these posts shortly, but in the meantime expressions of interest would be welcome and should be sent to impacts08@liv.ac.uk
Narrative Space is a 3-day international interdisciplinary conference exploring the creation of narrative environments in museums, galleries, historic sites, buildings and landscapes. From the level of the site and the building down to the level of the exhibition and the object, how can we create environments which tell stories of people, of places and of collections? How can spaces, objects and a range of media be utilised to create spatial experiences which are engaging, meaningful and memorable?
Narrative Space draws together museum professionals, exhibition designers, architects and academics to explore practice at the cutting-edge of exhibition and experience making. In order to explore this vast area of research and practice it covers a range of themes including the ability of sites and buildings to hold or be overlaid with narratives; the history and theory of display; museums and exhibitions as spatial media; harnessing the spatial character, history and potential of buildings and sites; the nature and role of narrative and storytelling in the making of interpretive environments; the role of visitor-centred design in the production of museum space; and the emergence of a new range of interpretive approaches to museum and exhibition making which cut across architecture, film, design, digital media, interior and graphic design, literature and art.
Proposals are sought from museum practitioners, architects, designers, artists, filmmakers and others actively involved in the imaginative reshaping of museums, galleries and visitor experiences as well as academics researching in the areas of museum and gallery architecture, exhibition and display, both historical and contemporary.
Please send a short proposal of no more than 300 words to Suzanne MacLeod and Laura Hanks at:
Deadline: 29th July 2009
EUCLID is hosting the 35th Annual STP&A Conference, with Birkbeck University, in London from 29-31 October 2009. This year’s conference focuses on Innovation, Creativity and Change in a Glocalised World – more details can be found at:
SUPER EARLY BIRD BOOKING DISCOUNT UNTIL 31 MAY 2009
