Geographies of Creativity Report
Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
A Creative PEC State of the Nations report arguing that place matters when it comes to creativity.
Creative Places
Investigate how audiences' cultural engagement habits are affected by place, including the working from home effect, the rise of localness and more.
Geography and place play key roles in cultural engagement, in several ways. There are, of course, patterns in where different types of people live, which are connected to the type and levels of cultural engagement (something which informs Audience Spectrum and which the mapping tool illustrates).
These patterns can be regional (most notably the difference between engagement in London and elsewhere) and our Place events show some of these differences. These include variation between different types of place within regions (e.g. shown by Indices of Multiple Deprivation figures, or rural/urban classifications). But we’ve also seen cross-cutting themes around place, such as a tendency for people to attend more locally since the pandemic and the rising influence of working from home on engagement for some (particularly professional, middle-class) groups.
From The Audience Agency
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Creative Places: Changing Hours
May 2024
We’ve been seeing a range of changing audience behaviours and attitudes since the pandemic, including shifting attitudes to event timings.
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Creative Places: Activities
May 2024
In our latest wave of the Cultural Participation Monitor, we asked about a wider range of cultural activities to get a fuller picture of the sorts of things people do outside our usual arts, cultural and heritage scope.
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Everyday creative participation
September 2022
While financial uncertainty might make people nervous about splashing out on more expensive arts and culture activities, over 40% of people say that pursuing creative hobbies in their own time is a key interest, a trend that skews towards younger participants and has increased through the pandemic.
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Working from home is here to stay
April 2022
Working from home is still prevalent, preferred and expected to continue in to some degree for most, which is likely a contributor to the widespread intention to attend more locally in future than before the pandemic.
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Changed working habits may trigger a surge in localness
September 2021
Most people who have worked at home for some or all of the pandemic expect to continue to do so for the foreseeable. As these tend to be high cultural engagers, they may drive increased local attendance in future.
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Engagement is set to decline and pantos may struggle
September 2021
People expect to engage less in general with arts, culture and heritage in the coming months, with a particular decline in interest in festive shows potentially signalling a bleak midwinter for venues.
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Wellbeing has Taken a Serious Blow, but Arts can Help
July 2021
Wellbeing has taken a serious blow across the population, although many say that arts do help increase wellbeing.
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Report | Creative People and Places: Digital Engagement & Opportunities
September 2019
Insight and practical recommendations for how CPPs can harness digital tools more effectively.
Place is a broad theme, but one which is - ironically - everywhere at the moment... It can include place-making and strategic planning of place, but also the way that where people are affects what they do and how they do it. We also recognise that different people live in different places, so place can also be a route into understanding different audience groups too.
Sources from elsewhere
10 Years of Learning from Creative People and Places
AMAculturehive
This report from Mark Robinson summarises central learning points from research commissioned around the Creative People and Places programme since 2012.
Transport Focus research on public transport
Transport Focus
A publications hub listing the latest research.
