Education and Culture – re-imagining a Grand Partnership
I joined an illustrious panel at the RSA last week to debate the current picture regarding the relationship between arts & culture and education.
A New Direction's support for local collaborations and partnerships in London.
Between 2012 and 2015, AND worked in partnership with the Innovation Unit and partners in 10 London boroughs to test and experiment with the process of constructing a local partnership to support cultural ad creative education and learning. Our current work with local areas builds on this action research.
On this page you can find out more about this programme, the places and programmes that were involved, and read reports from the workshop sessions that took place with the Innovation Unit along the way.
Through our work with the Innovation Unit, AND developed a guide for area leaders looking to connect young Londoners to exciting cultural opportunities. The guide identifies 6 approaches which any place can adopt.
I joined an illustrious panel at the RSA last week to debate the current picture regarding the relationship between arts & culture and education.
AND are currently supporting a number of local initiatives which explore different models of collaboration and exchange.
Yogesh Dattani, Head of Ealing Music Partnership, and participant in A New Direction’s Connected London programme, shares his thoughts on some developmental work that he has undertaken to embrace a more holistic approach to arts and culture for children and young people.
John McMahon explores how Innovation Unit’s Radical Efficiency approach has benefitted our Connected London places, and how the same thinking can be used more widely in cultural education.
Following the 21 March 2013 event at Coin Street, The Innovation Unit produced Cultural education in London: Making the case for change.
The second report from the Connected London programme shares discussions and insights from a workshop held at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation on 16 July 2013.
The third report, based on the Connected London session held at LIFT Islington on 8th October 2013, highlights the strength of a prototyping approach to developing and continuously improving not only the Connected London projects, but current and future cultural education projects more broadly across London and beyond.