Healing Arts Chicago: Embedding creativity in community health
Through cross-sector partnership between city culture, health and labour departments, Healing Arts Chicago has trained local artists as certified Community Health Workers through training at City Colleges of Chicago.
How Taipei is reviving a heritage settlement with co-habitation between artists and residents
Treasure Hill, once a self-built military settlement in Taipei, has been transformed into a model of living preservation through the Artists & Residents Co-Habitation policy. Since 2010, the site.
START Box Tokyo’s creative affordable workspaces
Land prices in Tokyo surged post-Covid which led to increased rents for artist studios and gallery spaces. So in 2023, Tokyo launched START Box, a project to let out.
Foto Wien: Strengthening Vienna’s cultural infrastructure
Foto Arsenal Wien is a publicly funded institution dedicated to contemporary photography and lens-based media. Following a EUR 3 million renovation of a historic building in the Arsenal complex,.
Cultural Infrastructure: Establishing a dedicated Pavilion of Dance in Warsaw
Responding to a long-standing gap in infrastructure, the City of Warsaw is establishing the Pavilion of Dance and Other Performing Arts – a dedicated venue for contemporary dance and.
Cultural Infrastructure: Warsaw’s award-winning new Museum of Modern Art
In October 2024, after nearly 20 years as a nomadic institution, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (MSN Warsaw) opened its first permanent home in the heart of.
Culture for All: Expanding access to culture in Zürich
Launched in 2024, Zürich’s Transformation Grants for Cultural Participation support cultural institutions in removing barriers to access and embedding diversity in their structures. Funded jointly by the City and.
How NYC Create in Place is protecting cultural space through cross-agency collaboration
NYC Create in Place is a cross-agency initiative launched in 2024 to address the affordability crisis threatening the city’s cultural and creative sectors. Led by the NYC Department of.