This partnership, recorded on 19 May 2022, was co-devised by colleagues at Keele University, Staffordshire University and Age UK Oxfordshire, as part of the Age of Creativity Festival 2022 and Creative Later Life 2025.
The keynote presentations and panel discussions around creative aging and placemaking, is now avaiable from the link above.
C3 Centre’s Professor Carola Boehm gave a talk on #Culture30Walks: How Creative is your Place?
Speakers included:
- Professor David Amigoni FEA- Director, Keele Institute for Social Inclusion (KISI), Keele Deal Culture & ArtsKeele (chair)
- Carola Boehm– Professor of Arts and Higher Education, Staffordshire University
- Rose Gilroy-Professor of Ageing Planning and Policy, Chair of Future Homes Alliance, School of Architecture Planning and Landscape
- Steven Millington– Director/ Senior Fellow at The Institute of Place Management and Reader in Place Management at Manchester Metropolitan University
- Jason Jones-Hall– Director of Development, Five10Twelve
- Neil Johnson– Engagement Project Lead, Liverpool City Region
It covers topics and case studies exploring the following:
- How does creativity/ culture contribute to ‘vibrant’ places for older people beyond local tourism?
- What constitutes a creative/ cultural ‘asset’ to older communities experiencing inequality?
- What ‘value’ do we give creativity/culture and older communities experiencing inequalities in rebranding places?
- What role does place based leadership have in making places both ‘Creative/ Cultural’ and ‘Age Friendly’?
- How can inequalities be tackled by ‘making’ in place and is this place leadership?