Culture in city administrations across the 40 cities became rapid response teams or, as the report suggests, ‘cultural care workers’. The “Creative Recovery: loss and hope for global cities” report shows that even though culture and the creative industries were hit hard by Covid - with closure of community assets and rapid job losses – culture was also key to driving recovery with city leaders deploying entrepreneurship. “ What World Cities Culture Forum partner cities gained from their involvement was not only the opportunity to share immediate solutions to pressing problems, but also to look further to the future.” Creative Recovery Report 2023Ĭulture city leaders crucial to Covid-response We joined forces with King’s College London to analyse nnearly 300 new policy measures, collated during the three years of pandemic, discussed at over twenty online meetings amongst our cities. The World Health Organisation declared the pandemic over in May, but are the culture and creative industries in global cities still suffering from long-Covid? The World Cities Culture Forum represents 40+ cities including Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Lagos, London, New York, Paris and Tokyo. The 5 “long-Covid” symptoms faced by culture in world cities Director of World Cities Culture Forum Laia Gasch shares what the main issues are, drawn from research in collaboration with King’s College London “Creative recovery? The role of cultural policy in shaping post-COVID urban futures ” launched today.ĭownload our policy briefing for city partners here.ĭownload full report by King’s College London here. However, we are still dealing with its effects. The pandemic is over and culture and creative industries have been key to city recovery.
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