Exchange: Case Story

Exchange, made up of BalletLorent, The Empty Space, Name and Northern Stage are rationalising and re-imagining access to and use of rehearsal and development space for emerging work in the performing arts in the region.

Caroline Routh, Co-founder of The Empty Space said: 'Even with the transformation of the cultural infrastructure in the North East region, access to research and development space appropriate for supporting a range of emerging work in the performing and digital arts sector remains limited. In order to encourage optimum health in our arts and cultural ecology the full lifecycle of creative processes needs to be nourished from the grass roots up. Each member of our group is intimately connected to supporting the early stages of creativity and our MMM collaborative pilot will deliver not only a better understanding of those lifecycle needs but a series of nationally relevant strategic responses to the physical space requirements of our target group.'

You can follow their story so far (autumn 2010) told using the concept of the 'adaptive cycle' via prezi. Below the prezi window are materials related to their collaborative working pilot including the briefs they set for the early stages of the collaboration together with the first stage report.

This document describes the first stage brief

This document describes the second stage brief

This document is the report from the first stage brief