ThinkCreate

The Southbank Centre is one of London's most famous artistic venues. Joanna is Head of Individual Giving at the Southbank Centre, and has first hand experience of both the value people place on culture, and also the challenges involved in funding the arts. Joanna describes the current context around arts funding, and offers an interesting background into how the Southbank Centre is funded.

Dr Abigail Gilmore is a Senior Lecturer in Arts Management at the University of Manchester. Abigail discusses cultural value, and discusses ways in which it can be measured. Abigail has a wealth of experience in the field, and draws experience from both an academic and practitioner point of view.

Dr Daragh O'Reilly is a Senior Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries at Sheffield University Management School. In this talk, Daragh discusses Cultural Value from an arts marketing perspective. Daragh brings a wealth of experience from working in marketing roles for international companies.

External stakeholders, along with colleagues from around the university discuss some of the benefits ThinkCreate brings to our students. ThinkCreate is quite different to a normal week at university, so it's important to understand why we run this challenge.

Find out the importance and relevance to Cultural Value and Global Enterprise to a student of the Arts & Humanities.

A message for students doing ThinkCreate next year.

Achieve More is an exciting new addition to our curriculum. It's a chance to work alongside students from other disciplines, developing potential solutions for a range of real-life global problems. Achieve More is an ambitious, institution wide challenge that we think really benefits our students.

Follow one of the groups from ThinkCreare throughout the week, and find out what they got up to. The group were looking at the relationship between Cultural Value & Global Enterprise. Music is Big Because (Instrumental) by Minden CC BY NC 3.0

Think Create is the Faculty of Arts & Humanities iteration of Achieve More. ThinkCreate gives first-year Arts & Humanities students the opportunity to engage with questions and problems that are of relevance to their own disciplines of study and the world around us. Over the course of one week, students are asked to think about some of the ethical, cultural and issues surrounding the work undertaken by partner organisations we have worked with, such as the National Trust, Museums Sheffield, EY and Sheffield Faiths Together. Working in interdisciplinary groups. students respond to these questions by creating a digitally shareable artefact. Music is Discovery by Jon Luc Hefferman CC BY NC 3.0

Digtially shareable artefacts are one of the key outputs of ThinkCreate. Although quite different to the normal university essay or presentation, they are still extraordinary powerful, and foster creativity, along with other skills amongst students. Music is Event Horizon by Jon Luc Hefferman CC BY NC 3.0