Placemaking
On-going strategic consultancy for culturally-led regeneration of towns and cities.
Our Placemaking consultancy helps provide skills, development and workspace provision to artists at all levels nationally, while putting them at the centre of communities. We strategically advocate for artists through a place-based approach with local authorities, developers, asset owners and policy makers.
This culturally-led approach to regeneration places art at the centre of development initiatives creating joined-up thinking among all relevant stakeholders to help communities thrive and breath life into high streets and other neglected areas.
Increasingly, the need to re-imagine and redevelop our towns and cities in a post-retail context has become a huge area for debate and action. We bring cultural activism to that debate.
Through our extensive knowledge of meanwhile workspace provision we are well placed to deliver these art-focused, urban regeneration initiatives. Re-purposing buildings and recreating value in places of decline through working with artists we are able to drive inclusive growth, social and economic benefits.
We are involved in a number of place-based initiatives across the UK that work strategically to regenerate urban environments and advocate for artists resilience and sustainability, which you can explore below:
Earlier in 2020, East Street Arts began work in Derby supporting Creative Space Management on a feasibility study looking at the development of a new maker zone for the city.
Back in what seems long ago in pre-Covid times, January 2020 to be specific, East Street Arts collaborated with Creative Space Management to look at a study for the West Yorkshire Combined Authority on temporary use of buildings and land owned by the various councils in Leeds city region.
When the Future High Street’s Fund was launched by the government in December 2018, East Street Arts joined a group of arts organisations, operating predominantly in the north to initiate a conversation about the opportunities and challenges of the new initiative.
Earlier in 2020 East Street Arts was invited to work with Doncaster’s Economic Development Team on an ambitious plan to support the local creative community alongside their Future High Streets capital redevelopment project.
As part of the Contemporary Art Society "Culture Matters" webinar series, experts discussed how High Street's could be repurposed through culture.