TCCE’s Conferences and Symposia
TCCE’s Conferences and Symposia bring people from Higher Education, the arts and cultural sectors and indeed sectors beyond together around issues of mutual concern and interest.
Back in 2007, we held our first major conference, The Art of Partnerships. Other conferences have included: Culture and Consequence (2008) with King’s College London, Beyond the Academy: Research as Exhibition (2010) in collaboration with Tate Britain, Connectivity, Values and Interventions (2012) with the British Library, Making the Extraordinary (2013) with Cass Business School and Culture, Creativity and the Academy, Building a New ‘Grand Partnership’ (2014) and Culture, Creativity and the Academy: Exploring the New Normal (2015) both with Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Exit Velocity: Supercharge your academic career (2016) with the University of West London, Complex Webs: Exploring Connections Between Universities and the Arts and Creative Sectors (2016) as part of London Design Festival and Refresh, Reboot, Retool: new imaginaries for challenging times (2018) and Beyond Resilience: Co-designing our Creative Futures (2019) with Bluecoat Liverpool as part of our Boosting Resilience Programme.
Our conferences are carefully and imaginatively curated events designed to encourage debate, conversation, knowledge exchange and co-creation around big challenges areas such as health, place, diversity and environment.
Through this part of our work, we also seek to showcase the values and benefits of collaborations as well as shining a spotlight on the role of policy in partnership development between research the cultural and creative sectors.
Examples of other relevant activities can be found in our events archive.
You can listen to the symposium Refresh, Retool, Reboot: new imaginaries for challenging times here.