The Centre for Cultural Value is connecting with international academic colleagues as part of a new COST Action: Connecting Critical Pedagogies, Inclusive Art Forms and Alternative Barometers for Urban Sustainability (also known as CIRCUL’ARTs).

The CIRCUL’ART COST Action has a particular focus on developing innovative methodologies that stimulate solutions for sustainable cities, seeking new ways of co-creating knowledge, sharing it, and transforming it into action, orientating the learning towards practical outcomes.

The group aims to take the knowledge gained into global circulation, fostering a participatory and creative approach to developing solutions through information exchange.

Discover more about CIRCUL’ART and its aims

What is a COST Action?

The European Co-operation in Science and Technology (COST) is an intergovernmental organisation that provides funding for the creation of research networks. Rather than directly funding research, COST focuses on connecting communities of researchers and innovators from universities, as well as from public and private institutions, NGOs, industry and SMEs.

Learn more about COST Actions

Shared learning and making connections

CIRCUL’ART members have been invited to join working groups, each with a specific focus, for in-depth discussion and sharing. The Centre, with its interest in cultural placemaking and evaluation, is participating in three of these groups:

• Urban rituals, performances, street theatre and music
• Innovation through creative and circular technologies
• Dissemination and recommendations

Centre director Stephen Dobson says:

This COST Action presents an opportunity for the Centre for Cultural Value to extend its reach beyond the UK, connecting with academics from across the world. We plan to share our knowledge and insight garnered over the first five years of the Centre, as well as actively learn from our peers and the outcomes from the work taking place over the next three years.

If you are interested in finding out more about this work and the Centre’s role in the group, please email us at ccv@leeds.ac.uk.