2003-08-20
What is "cultural planning"?
Excerpts from Community Cultural Planning Handbook: A guide for community leaders
Community cultural planning is a structured, community-wide fact-finding and consensus building process to identify cultural resources, community needs, and opportunities; and to plan actions and secure resources to respond.
Cultural planning is a public process in which representatives of a community undertake a comprehensive community assessment and planning process that focuses on arts and cultural resources, needs, and opportunities. Sometimes the planning is narrowly focused on the needs of artists, arts organizations, and audiences. Increasingly, cultural planning considers the role of culture in resolving broader community needs.
In spite of a diversity of approaches to cultural planning, most plans commence with assessment and conclude with planning. The most effective plans employ a five-step process as outlined below.
Cultural planning is a public process in which representatives of a community undertake a comprehensive community assessment and planning process that focuses on arts and cultural resources, needs, and opportunities. Sometimes the planning is narrowly focused on the needs of artists, arts organizations, and audiences. Increasingly, cultural planning considers the role of culture in resolving broader community needs.
In spite of a diversity of approaches to cultural planning, most plans commence with assessment and conclude with planning. The most effective plans employ a five-step process as outlined below.
by Craig Dreeszen, Ph.D., 1997
Arts Extension Service, University of Massachusetts
Arts Extension Service, University of Massachusetts
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