Our main objective

in all initiatives and partnerships is to identify and assemble data that serves our mission.  We engage with individuals and organizations across geographic, income and sector boundaries, who have obvious synergies with our goals, and whose activities and initiatives are complementary but not redundant.

Research Objectives:

1. Assemble deeper and more complete data on the economic impact of the arts.
2. Explore, articulate and measure alternative (not solely economic) valuations of the arts and their contributions at every level of social organization.
3. Explore how cross-sector initiatives around all kinds of sustainability issues can bolster the arts sector and the communities in which it lives.
4. Develop methodologies for identifying and measuring outcomes.
5. Develop protocols for replication of this work.

The ICSCS Role in Collaborations:

1. Survey existing field activity and identify and communicate best practices
2. Identify new areas of inquiry/synergies between existing areas of inquiry
3. Articulate the need, the proposed methodology of inquiry, and identify outcomes and measurements
4. Connect and convene disparate communities of practice
5. Document processes of collaboration and create general protocols for optimizing partnerships
6. Help identify data objectives, construct the data strategy and design the matrix of data sets
7. Communicate the findings in a visualizing interesting way, experimenting with how data is presented, mapped and interpreted in order to reach the widest range of understanding and adoption
8. Identify and create bridges between artistic practice, measurable outcomes and tangible benefits to participants
9. Frame findings within a larger exploration of the relationship between arts and other social sciences in the context of a strong public commons and civil society

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