This week, we’re launching a podcast. ‘Theory of Creativity’ is a series of weekly interviews with experts in research, economics, innovation, advocacy and policy. Here’s some of the reasons why we’re taking time out from client work, to do some listening and learning.
Research processes that can help project managers shape products, reduce risk and optimise around user needs. This article covers three relatively simple research methods that can be done at your desk, and don’t require big budgets or advanced technical skills.
Here at Patternmakers, we love hearing about new ways for people of all ages to access the arts. Here are five new projects that caught our attention...
In June 2014 I had the pleasure of interviewing Diane Ragsdale on behalf of Native, the online magazine of the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts. Diane is based at Erasmus University in Rotterdam researching and talking about cultural economics with a specialism in the performing arts. She previously spent six years at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and is one of the leading thinkers on arts governance of our generation...