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What is your favorite #Buffalo area attraction? Buffalo AKG Art Museum? West Side Bazaar? Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center? The vast park systems? We are lucky to have so many architectural wonders and arts and cultural sites here. In part four of our #BuffaloUnlocked series, Tracey Drury explores how quality-of-life benefits can attract potential residents and businesses, especially in a post-pandemic world where more workers can choose where to live. #tourism #hospitality

Preserve Summerhall as a Cultural Hub in Edinburgh! Please sign this petition to protect Edinburgh's cultural heritage and preserve spaces like Summerhall for future generations. The potential sale of Summerhall, a vital cultural institution in the city, is deeply concerning. To the petition: https://chng.it/F88BGtwb6k Since its transformation from the Royal School of Veterinary Studies in 2011, Summerhall has been a thriving multi-arts venue, hosting over 110 companies, galleries, studios, and community spaces, such as the Artiscience Library, which international Bioartist Oron Catts, University of Western Australia, called "a unique treasure-house of inspiration”. To convert Summerhall into apartments or student flats would not only strip away a crucial cultural asset but also diminish the unique character of the community. We urge to explore alternative solutions that preserve Summerhall's role as a hub for creativity, innovation, and community engagement. Whether through community ownership, partnerships with cultural organizations, or other innovative approaches, there are viable alternatives that can ensure Summerhall's continued success. #art #innovation #creativity #galleries #studios #communityengagement #communityspace #culturalinstitute #STEAM #libraries #artiscience

A very interesting report by Historic England, as it demonstrates how community engagement with local heritage can enhance quality of life. #localheritage #localhistory #communityengagement

💡 Vital urbanism short read in The Guardian: How flexible auditoriums and art displays from city museums could help to revive urban community spaces. 📣 What is your city doing to activate under-used urban spaces? Tell us in the comments! --- #urbanism #cities #placemaking #placebranding #citymarketing #economicdevelopment

Conference paper Cities, Cultural Resilience and Place-based Heritage-The Museum’s Role-Defining Consideration Toward Urban Coherence The consideration approach for an overall impact for urban coherence, cultural facilitates such as museum requires a rigorous and comprehensive exploration and deliberation for of practice toward resilience and sustainability in the urban centers. In considering for a meaningful urban coherence and cultural fortification, the incorporation of ‘role-defining’ elements as available redefinition of pioneering role-marking to cultural facilities in urban center are assessed, hence the purpose of this study. The theoretical frameworks, including the adaptive practice and thinking may be helpful when considering place-based heritage for cultural facilities. We suggest that a collaborative thinking through the practical implementation could aid the role-defining impact of museums in the urban context. Given this, the analysis revealed that consideration to cultural amenities may be categorized as those: (1) the enhancement with cultural amenities in urban setting, whether in the interior or exterior environment, can aid in the regenerative role toward the restoration of the urban ecological landscape; (2) the museum’s role positioning should consider the nature, heritage and assets available to benefit the cultural; (3) ideas and practices pertaining to the systemic design consideration requires the socio-cultural, economic and regenerative dimensional; (4) the focuses is placed on the available strategies that include thinking toward an urban coherence. Together, they contribute to the consideration for museum planning and role definition befitting to the cultural resilience for the future of urbanity. #Conferencepaper #Culture #Museum

🌍🏡 The Museum of Modern Art exhibition "Countryside, The Future" may no longer be current, but the questions it raised remain a pressing global agenda. Is the #future in #cities or in the #countryside ? 🎥 "Countryside The Future" has a creator: the renowned architect and thinker Rem Koolhaas, who asserts that the future is not in cities but in the countryside. And a place of prominence: The The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). Here, amidst the pandemic, architecture and art converged with innovative thinking and a clear vision: the revitalization of rural areas plays a fundamental role in the future of humanity. The intention is to prompt the world to reflect on the positive impact we can generate by focusing on the sustainable development of rural areas. This aligns with the ES VICIS foundation's promotion through its program Welcome to My Village, embodying Neo-Ruralization, revitalizing rural areas within a modern and global context. 🔗 And you, how do you #ImagineTheFuture? With #OvercrowdedCities or a balanced distribution and #NewUrbanRuralDynamics ? 👁️🗨️ Click to watch the video and share your thoughts on envisioning a more sustainable and prosperous future for all. #ESVICIS #CountrysideTheFuture #Sustainability #RuralFuture #InnovativeArchitecture #CommunityDevelopment #NeoRuralization https://lnkd.in/eKXNDDm

Royal Ontario Museum is 110 years old! To celebrate, its offering open entry on the weekend To mark #ROM’s 110th anniversary, the #entire #Museum will be #FREE on Saturday, March 23, and Sunday, March 24, from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm. #Notickets are #needed. However, due to the #anticipated number of #visitors #expected and #building #capacity #limits, there may be #wait #times for #entry. All #guest to enter through the Weston Entrance along #Queen’sPark. #Included during this anniversary weekend is free admission to the #special #exhibitions #Death: #Life’s #Greatest #Mystery and #Wildlife #Photographer of the Year. Plus, don't miss out on the #extraordinary #installation of #Zuul, ROM’s #world-#famous #ankylosaur, that closes on March 24. ROM opened to the #public on March 19, 1914, with a newly #constructed #building that today is the Museum’s west wing. Subsequent major #additions to the building were made in 1933, 1978, and 2007. Recently, the Museum announced #OpenROM — a #landmark #initiative that will #dramatically open the Museum even more to the #public, #creating #greateraccess, and a #thriving #cultural and #civic #hub in the #heart of the #city. #intergenerational #intercultural #onehealth #education #Canada #indigenous #knowledge #wellbeing #sdgs #arts #culturalheritage #scientificheritage #experiential #learning #artsandculture #design #inclusiveplanning #research #AQ https://lnkd.in/gDbeEAyg

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Partnership and landowners that get it. The key to the success of projects like this is one simple thing …….. say Yes. Be bold. There is always a excuse to keep sites shuttered or a space empty, perceived risk, profit and losses read or created by those that have never sold a drink or ticket or meal in there lives. Mayfield have built a park, created the biggest food hall in the uk, a cinema, theatre and had more than 3million visits to our culture venue, established mutiple licences, set bold planning precedents across the site…….all before signing one lease or building any new buildings. My point is this. ‘Place making’ is doing, not brands and strap lines on hoardings. Open up your land, your empty spaces, your basements and roof tops to those that can transition your places into the future working to a simple place stratergy. Place prove…..take the risk. Say YES like Landsec U+I on mayfield and british land with printworks. Dont leave the ideas on spreadsheet and moodboards. It is super super simple.