Projects

Most of Creative Exchange projects have been research orientated and tended to draw on the knowledge and skills of the network in gathering evidence of effective practice and policy. This material is analysed and reflected on and usually shared as practice or policy-relevant materials at conferences, workshops or via publications or the web.

Materials from some of our thematic projects is available through the microsites (see right hand menu) and project reports and other publications can be downloaded from the Publications page. Below we list our current themes and past projects.

Projects 2007 - 2008

During 2007 Creative Exchange ran three main projects in the culture and development sector relating culture to: conflict, HIV/AIDS and refugees and asylum seekers. For more information on these please visit our microsites.

Culture in Conflict Transformation - Burundi

Funded by Comic Relief International Grants Programme to launch this new participatory research and learning project in Burundi.

HIV / AIDS, The Creative Challenge

Culture can contribute to tackling HIV and AIDS. This project is developing an evidence base and building an international practice and policy network in four regions - Kenya and Vietnam/Cambodia, South Africa and the Caribbean. It been developed with the support of Exchange/Healthlink, the UNESCO/UNAIDS joint programme on A Cultural Approach to HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care, and recently, with the UK Department for International Development, DfID.

Peer Leadership and Learning Network on Culture, Arts and Refugees

The Cultural Leadership Programme is supporting us to develop a peer network of arts leaders in England, Wales and Scotland who working with refugees and asylum seekers. It aims to increase knowledge and understanding among the network, develop exchange and partnership initiatives, building resources, networking and learning tools. Participating organisations are:
• Arts in the Community Programme, Portsmouth City Council, South
• Cardboard Citizens, London
• Exiled Writers Ink!, London
• Greenwich and Lewisham Young People’s Theatre, London
• Oval House, London
• Pan Centre for Intercultural Arts, London
• Paragon Internationals, Glasgow, Scotland
• Photovoice, London
• Small World Theatre, Cardigan, Wales
• Sound It Out, Birmingham

Major Thematic Projects

• Refugees and Asylum Seekers (A Sense of Belonging 2000, 2004-8)
• Culture, HIV and AIDS (HIV/AIDS: The Creative Challenge, 2004-8)
• Culture and Conflict (Culture and Conflict Transformation in Burundi, 2006-7, Creative Approaches to Conflict, 1999)
• Culture and Development (Culture: Hidden Development, 2005, and Routemapping Culture and Development, 2003-4)
• A Cultural Impact on Poverty
  

Other projects:

• Child Rights and Child Protection (1999)
• Gender Equality (Creative Agendas, 2000)
• Culture and indigenous people (People’s Participatory Project for Democracy and Human Rights, 1999)
• UK Arts and Social Policy (Developing the role of the arts in UK social policy, 2004, Emerging issues in Arts and Social Inclusion, 2003, Arts and Social Inclusion Consultation, 2001)
  

International Partnerships

• Adding Value Overseas
  
• Intercom: International Communications Network for Culture and Sustainable Development (2001).

Intercom Participating Networks:

• Asian Network for Culture and Development - ANCD (THAILAND)
• Art in the Public Interest (USA)
• Arts Access Aotearoa (NEW ZEALAND)
• Community Arts Network SA - CANSA (AUSTRALIA)
• Creative Exchange (UK)
• Culturelink Network - Institute for International Relations (CROATIA)
• Forum for Culture and Human Development - FCHD (BANGLADESH)
• InCorpore Cultural Association (COSTA RICA)
• Instituto de Investigacion y Desarrollo - IDES (URUGUAY)
• Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa - OCPA (MOZAMBIQUE)