Event title
- Culture-led Regeneration and Place Transformation Seminar
Location
Date
- Thursday 6 November 2025, 15:00-16:00
Keynote speaker
- Emeritus Professor Graeme Evans (University of the Arts London)
Event details
This seminar will present the evidence and rationales for culture-led regeneration over time, based on research undertaken by Graeme Evans with Patrycja Kaszynska for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
The work by Graeme Evans and Patrycja Kaszynska investigates the place-based impacts of major capital projects, events and festivals, cultural districts, and community cultural infrastructure.
This field that has been the subject of analysis and debate for over 40 years since the association between cultural investment, urban regeneration and economic impacts have been the subject of public policy.
During the session, report co-author Graeme Evans will look at the challenges of measuring impacts, the trajectory of failed event bids that have then successfully pursued alternative strategies, and implications for future research and policy.
There will be time for a Q&A after Graeme's presentation.
This one-hour session is part of the Creative Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC)'s new Seminar Series.
Registration for this event can be completed via Culture-led Regeneration and Place Transformation Seminar.
Convened by the Creative Policy and Evidence Centre, Newcastle University.