Completed Research and Initiatives

2004-2005

REAL Partnership

CCC, together with the International Futures Forum, conducted a qualitative analysis of the REAL Partnership, a Glasgow-based learning programme. Commissioned by Scottish Enterprise Glasgow and designed to increase access to learning opportunities appropriate for the 21st century, REAL sees itself operating in a world of rapid change and complexity requiring new capacities and skills. Over 125,000 people from Glasgow have taken part and there is wide acclaim for its effective styles of learning. Download report as a PDF (330KB)

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2001-2004

Creative Community Building through Cross-sector Collaboration

Commissioned by the Ministry of Education and the Melina Project in Greece, this study was designed to produce a map of policies and practice in Europe that encourage collaboration across sectors on new approaches to social inclusion, well-being and formal and informal education. The initiative comprised focus groups in 9 countries (sponsored by the European Cultural Foundation), interviews, paper and telephone surveys and extensive desk and internet research. CCC produced a report, articles, speeches and special seminars based on the findings. For more detail about this study visit the Mapping Section of this website. In addition, a book on the findings was published in March 2004, which can be purchased from our BOOKSHOP section.

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1992-1997

International Arts and Education Initiative

This initiative set out to define the arts and education field not just as arts in schools and arts in the curriculum, but anywhere that creativity and learning were interacting. This definition included those places where the arts were working in tandem with the social services and with populations isolated in some way by circumstance.

As well as mapping the wide field of creativity and learning, a special study was devised to reveal the relationship of arts institutions and education. The study looked primarily at the interface between the institutions' arts policies and their growing educational functions. A book of the results, Creative Tensions was published with support from the Arts Council of Great Britain (now Arts Council England) and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

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1987-1993

Arts and the Changing City Initiative

Over a period of 6 years, through Arts and the Changing City, CCC/BAAA played an active role in developing the role of arts and culture in the burgeoning field of urban renewal. Through a series of research projects, conferences and publications, CCC studied the many ways that the arts and artists help the regeneration of cities. With this series of investigations, the work of many British practitioners was introduced to an international audience and new ideas were brought to the UK through visiting specialists from all over the world.

The whole initiative was based on a series of studies. The first, Arts and the Changing City, described and defined the field and held a landmark conference in Glasgow, which was widely recognised to have changed the nature of the discussion in the UK. The second, Investing in the Changing City, explored the dilemmas faced by corporations who recognised the success of economic regeneration of cities was largely dependant on socially sound communities, but were unsure about the contribution of the arts to building these communities. Finally, the initiative looked at the care and housing of artists within cities through The Artist in the Changing City. This critically acclaimed work was supported by many funders including the Leverhulme Trust, the Crafts Council, the Arts Council, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and others. These three studies are available from our BOOKSHOP section.

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1978-1987

Cultural Exchange Initiative

As the British American Arts Association, CCC facilitated cultural exchange mainly between the US and the UK, with an emphasis on issues, information and contacts. During this period, we staged two international festivals: Britain Salutes New York and the American Festival, a number of conferences and published Across the Street Around the World, a book concerned with cultural exchange and intercultural relations. The book can also be purchased from our BOOKSHOP.