Creative Places Exchange: People & Place

Join us for the second event in the Creative Places Exchange, a practical series designed to support individuals and organisations shaping place-based work and cultural regeneration. 

This session focuses on the essential role of a people-centred approach to creating better places. This means working with community-led organisations, residents, and in many cases prioritising support and programmes for those most in need. This event explores how different engagement methods can empower more inclusive, confident decision-making and meaningful relationship building over time. 

We’ll discuss people-centred practice and how different approaches, from consultation to collaboration and co-production, are more than buzzwords and can be used purposefully and effectively. 

Methods of engagement: 
From co-design and co-production to consultation and community led – what do we really mean? 

What works: 

And how ‘success’ looks different, project to project, place by place and with different participants. 

Learning from real examples 
We will share where our people-centred approach has been useful for local authority forward planning, cultural strategies, work in nature and more. 

As with all of our Creative Places Exchange events, we will open the floor for discussion. 

We’d love to hear from you: 
What are you working on? What has worked well for you? Are you looking for support? 

You don’t need to have experience of community work or know about our work at The Audience Agency - this series is about shared learning, practical tools and real-world examples. 

This series of online events has been designed to support individuals and organisations who are influencing, designing, and advocating for place-based work and cultural regeneration.  

Delivered by The Audience Agency, each event will revisit the key elements of place-based practice… People, Place and Culture – and how they can be applied together. 

We will share valuable insight from our work with local authorities, place-based partnerships and cultural organisations across England, Scotland, Wales and internationally, including: 

·      Strategic planning 

·      Civic and Community Engagement 

·      Creative and cultural programming 

·      And data insight as custodians of data from over 20 million households 

Who is it for? And Why? 

This series is open to all, but has been designed for individuals and organisations, including local and combined authorities, place-based partnerships and networks, and organisations shaping culture, community, and place.  

Places are navigating major change: local government reorganisation, rising expectations around evidence, participation, and impact.  

The Creative Places Exchange offers a practical space to explore how combining data, people, and culture supports confident, inclusive decision making for better places. 

At the end of each event, you can book in a 30 minute, 1-1 conversation with our team to discuss your place needs. We’re here to help.