public sphere

The conversation is moving from ‘finding space for the arts’ to seeing culture as a core element of the city’s infrastructure that delivers wider public value

50% of our cities collect formal data to identify creative space supply and need but further evidence is needed. City governments can be more than just regulators – they can act as conveners, brokers and champions

Funders are beginning to shift their attention from one-off capital projects to long-term investment, leadership development, and permanent affordability mechanisms.

They can make public land available at discounted prices, embed cultural infrastructure into zoning and planning frameworks, or partner with philanthropists and ethical finance providers to make capital more readily available.

The property and affordability crises have also directly impacted the cultural sphere, limiting access to exhibition, studio, and performance spaces. Furthermore, the ongoing trend of converting light industrial and warehouse spaces — vital components of Los Angeles’ cultural infrastructure — into upscale residential developments instead of... See more

We are committed to the idea that study is what you do with other people. It’s talking and walking around with other people, working, dancing, suffering, some irreducible convergence of all three, held under the name of speculative practice. The notion of a rehearsal—being in a kind of workshop, playing in a band, in a jam session, or old men... See more

to have a barbecue or a dance—all forms of unrestricted sociality that they slyly call “study.”