Dance Mapping - Arts Council England

Ideas Park will allow a transparent and consistent entry point through which new ideas for
arts and creative industries projects can be collected.
Ideas Park is a system that allows for the open and external input of ideas to be questioned,
analysed for resourced for further development.
How will it work?
Ideas Park will provide a framework including British Council strategy and priorities that will
have to be addressed by the project idea. These will integrate the selection criteria.
There will be an online format for providing a summary of the project – its aims, what it will
deliver, who the partners might be and where would it happen.
The project ideas will be evaluated periodically by a panel integrated by British Council sector
heads and specialists, depending on its content.
This evaluation will analyse the project idea, will question its feasibility, its strategic fit and the
cost of continuing to research it.
If the project idea is approved for further research, resources will be allocated.
The project ideas will move through different stages while they continue to be developed and
built up, until some of them make it to the piloting and final implementation stage.”
Source: http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts-working-with-us-ideas-park.htm
Internationalism brings both economic and aesthetic benefit. Collaborations and co-
productions can generate new ideas and fresh influences as well as supporting the making of
work.
6. Economic downturn
Since starting the mapping research, England has fallen into recession and one can only
speculate about the potential impact of this on the field into the longer term. What is clear is
that this is not going to be a quick turnaround. Some commentators feel that the recession is
not only economic, but structural.
In The Guardian on 14 th March 2009, in Arts world braced for 'hurricane' as recession hits,
Charlotte Higgins wrote:
‘Two years ago, almost to the day, Tony Blair addressed a crowd of cultural leaders in the
Tate Modern. He talked of the past decade as a "golden age" for the arts. Art, he said,
"enlarges a country's capacity to be reflective, interested and bold. Dynamism in arts and
culture creates dynamism in a nation".
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