SPACE

Spring 2008

Culture moving East is the subject for this year’s SPACE annual symposium about the Olympic legacy for culture in East London. Today’s focus is on the meeting point between the international world stage and the wealth of local culture which makes East London a vibrant creative centre.

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The event focussed on the potential  meeting point between an international world stage and local cultural infrastructure by addressing the following key issues:

Raising the game: the dynamic between international and local - exemplars and case studies
Defining the opportunity for creative meeting points between East London culture and the international stage.

Cultural legacy in the Olympic Park
What are the factors that will ensure that a cultural legacy is achieved in the park from 2014?

Can successful cultural provision be retained in a regenerative legacy in Olympic Edge Masterplanning?
Olympic Edge masterplanning process: what role can culture play in the masterplan?

New Kinds of local
How might the Olympic park engender new creative localities?