PROJECTS
This section describes project areas and contains links to initiatives and partnerships that ICSCS currently has under development.
DATA FROM THE GROUND UP
Arts and culture as a sector are undercounted, undervalued and isolated. This has negative impacts for funding, the allocation of resources, community life and a broad range of other policy considerations. It also prevents us from realizing our maximum potential to engage with other sectors. Not only does the arts and culture sector need better quantitative economic data, for instance, to capture information on individual artists and freelance workers, but we also need to create a way of valuing the intangible benefits that arts and culture generate. Our goal is to engage the cultural sector in taking control of the conversation about what arts mean and do.
Strategies for Celebrating and Strengthening Folk Arts
PILOTS WITH ADVANCED POLICY CONCEPTS DEVELOPED BY INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS
In other parts of the world, work is well underway in creating alternative ways of measuring and valuing the impacts of the arts on community life and sustainability. We are committed to bringing that knowledge from around the world to the United States to benefit our cultural sector. We are bringing New York City into international cultural policy discussions.
International Futures Forum (IFF), Scotland
Re.think, Mission Models Money (MMM), Great Britain
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
The arts have a critical role in not messaging important information about environmental sustainability, but also in modeling sustainable practices.
Arts, Climate Change & Environmental Sustainability
DEMOCRATIC PRACTICE
The arts can foster empathy and respect for the opinions and feelings of others – the main prerequisites for a vibrant democratic practice.
Engaging Arts as a Medium of Change and Transformation in Kenya