Interventions: Context. Challenge. Discussion
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Some reflections on the challenges in setting up co-commissioned cultural projects as part of the AHRC-funded Cultural Intermediation research.
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Interventions WPContext. Challenge. Discussion.
Participatory budgeting
• Experiments in 1970s/80s Brazil • Famously implemented from 1989 in Porto Alegre• Philosophical commitment on political left to
increasing democracy within a socialist project• Desire to bypass corrupt/clientalist local cliques• Target deprived neighbourhoods for additional
funding• UN Habitat II Istanbul 1996, participatory budgeting
one of 42 best practices for urban governance
Birmingham’s ‘Jaws of doom’
‘Governments must have the resources to implement the projects that participants select.’ (Wampler, 2007, 25)
£600m funding shortfall
• DCLG’s Neighbourhood Community Budget Pilot Oct 2011-Apr 2013
• co-design• exploring the scales at
which decentralisation of services works best• assessing community
capacity and appetite (DCLG, 2013, 11)
Birmingham Cultural [budgeting] Pilots• Running 2013-14• Built on experience from DCLG’s Neighbourhood
Community Budget Pilot Oct 2011-Apr 2013
• £95k ACE/BCC/DCLG• Three case study neighbourhoods mapping onto
Community budget pilot areas• Balsall Heath• Castle Vale• Shard End
• £40k extension from DCLG/ACE agreed March 2014
Yorkswood Griffins
• An historical curiosity• Local rather than city-
wide interest• Local ownership = local
empowerment?
Challenge: Cultural Intermediation pilots• Balsall Heath & Ordsall• Assemble a commissioning panel for each
neighbourhood• Training from LJMU• Commissioning panel meetings – YVJ as expert
member• Commissions• Participatory evaluation – D O’B
