City People has won a $10,000 City of Sydney grant to host an innovative accelerator to develop ideas for how we create active, vibrant public spaces for people during Covid-19 and beyond.
Our focus will be on how arts and culture can continue to make places people love, places where people connect with each other while being at a safe physical distance.
City People designs and facilitates accelerators as a dynamic, innovative way to bring people with diverse expertise together, over a short period of time, to create project ideas that celebrate, interpret or activate places.
In this Accelerator for Arts and Culture in the Public Domain – Covid-19 and Beyond, supported by a City of Sydney grant, we aim to develop a repertoire of creative ideas or concepts to activate our shared community places. Some of the issues we will grapple with are:
- How do we connect when Covid-19 prevents or limits the close proximity of people and has in some ways increased social disconnection?
- How do we welcome and connect people back into our shared community spaces with new social distancing requirements?
- How does the arts and cultural sector adapt to the necessary change in arts practice and audiences?
We will share what we learn with other professionals working in arts and culture and creative placemaking to ensure our public spaces can be active and vibrant places for people during Covid-19 and beyond.
The Accelerator for Arts and Culture in the Public Domain – Covid-19 and Beyond will take place in late August 2020 and we’ll share more details about the participants and their insight on our News page.
