Cobalt Connects Project: Expressing Vibrancy
Challenge
The Expressing Vibrancy project arose out of CoBALT Connects’ past and current consultation work. After noting the term “vibrant communities” used often in municipal cultural planning documents – and always as a desired end goal of the work of cultural planning – it became clear that without a working definition and a set of tools to reach that end goal, the plans were incomplete.
Solution
Through the support of the Government of Ontario’s Creative Communities Prosperity Fund, Ontario Trillium Foundation, and MITACS, and partnerships with McMaster University’s Dr. Jim Dunn, Acting Chair in the Department of Health, Aging and Society, McMaster’s LIVE Performance Lab, the City of Hamilton, and the Center for Community Study, Expressing Vibrancy commenced the summer of 2013, and captured a year’s worth of research and data on eight of Hamilton’s neighbourhoods.
Results
This project was selected as one of the key note presentations for the 2015 National Business Improvement Area Conference, and has been published in numerous magazines across Canada.
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