Category Archives: arts infrastructure
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State owned facilities turned into artist live/work spaces. Pedestrian friendly streets with cafes and shops. Open studios where you can drop in and see sculptors and painters at work. Street art that is street art and not gang tags. It … Continue reading
Millennial? No, Boomer
A survey from Pew Research came across my twitter feed. It is designed to measure “How Millennial Are You?” Pew’s report is titled “Confident. Connected. Open to Change.” These are, apparently, the defining characteristics of the millennial generation, those who … Continue reading
Get Out of Your Room!
The hottest idea in entrepreneurship education circles for the last year or two has been the “lean launch pad” or “lean canvas” for business model generation as explained in Osterwalder and Pigneur’s book of that name and as evangelized by … Continue reading
Sticky Madness
For the concluding session of the recent Pave symposium on Entrepreneurship, the Arts, and Creative Placemaking, we wanted to bring the discussion to a local level, so recruited the Phoenix chapter of Emerging Arts Leaders (EALPHX) to lead an interactive … Continue reading
An Alphabet of Culture and Community
As part of the third biennial Pave symposium: Entrepreneurship, the Arts, and Creative Placemaking held April 12-13, the Phoenix chapter of Emerging Arts Leaders facilitated a workshop on connecting arts to communities in the Phoenix metro area (or “The Valley” … Continue reading
Spiraling Up
I went to a talk by my visiting colleague Nan Ellin recently. Nan is an urbanist and visionary, as well as well-respected scholar. She was talking about her new book, “Good Urbanism.” Her thesis is a simple one: in order … Continue reading
Cultural Infrastructure, Cultural Districts, and Creative Places
I was excited by the title of a recent post on the Americans for the Arts blog earlier this week. “Assessing Cultural Infrastructure,” would seem to be right up the alley of my interests in evaluation and creative placemaking, but … Continue reading
Diversity, Equality, Bus Lanes, and Arts
I had the opportunity to hear urban theorist and former mayor of Bogotá Enrique Peñalosa speak this week about his vision for more sustainable and egalitarian cities. He is a public transportation and urban greenspace evangelist. One of the basic … Continue reading
Danger, Will Robinson
As a child, I heard the Robot on “Lost in Space” warning “Danger, Will Robinson, danger, danger!” As an adult, I sometimes find myself in the precarious position of the Robot seeing danger signs before me, but being a human, … Continue reading
Measuring Incubator Success
Coincident with a spate of interesting blog posts about defining success for oneself (digested today by Thomas Cott), I am traveling to a conference to present some research on measuring the success of arts venture incubators. Specifically, I look at … Continue reading
