In search of the social impact of cultural districts - Emerging principles for social impact evaluation

• Main Author: HOE, Su Fern
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: social impact; cultural impact; cultural value; social value; cultural districts; placemaking; urban planning; arts; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Sociology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3611; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4869/viewcontent/HSF_In_Search_of_The_Social_Impact_of_Cultural_Districts_GCDN_2022.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Across the globe, the transformative powers of cultural districts have been widely noted, particularly with respect to how they add value to the lives of individuals and to society as a whole. Yet the ways in which cultural districts deliver and evaluate their social impact have yet to be fully explored. Importantly, there is a stark absence of rigorous methodologies and assessment frameworks to assist cultural districts in articulating, planning, delivering, and evaluating their social value proposition. Based on findings from a follow-up study to our 2019 report on Social Impact, untimely terminated due to Covid-19, this publication highlights there is much to be learned about the social impact of cultural districts.