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When regeneration brings new investment and opportunity to a place, how do you make sure the people already there have a say in what comes next?
Join Community Innovation Practitioner Dr Sara Hassan from the University of Birmingham in Digbeth, Birmingham, as she explores how regeneration can support growth without losing the creativity, relationships and sense of belonging that already make the area special.
With major developments including HS2 and the BBC bringing change and investment to Digbeth, Sara’s research brings together artists, youth organisations, cultural institutions, policymakers and developers to ask who gets to shape the area’s future, and who gets to stay.
Hear how creative workshops, walking field trips, mapping and storytelling are helping people with very different perspectives understand each other, and why devolution creates new opportunities for local voices to influence decisions about place.
Sara shares what her research has revealed about inclusive regeneration, belonging and growth and why better listening and bringing different voices together can help shape change that works for everyone.
Chapters
[00:00] – Welcome to Creative Communities
[02:14] – Digbeth: creativity, community and a place in transition
[05:13] – Regeneration, investment and the risk of displacement
[13:07] – Who gets heard when a neighbourhood changes?
[20:00] – Bringing Digbeth’s communities and decision-makers together
[30:28] – From regeneration ‘done to’ communities to regeneration ‘with’ them
[36:27] – What the research revealed about belonging and growth
[39:48] – What other places can learn from Digbeth
Useful links & further reading
About Dr Sara Hassan’s Creative Communities research, including case study and policy paper – here
Explore the AHRC Creative Communities Programme – here
Special thanks & credits
Special thanks to the people, creative practitioners and partners across Digbeth who contributed to the research and this episode.
Thanks to artist Linda Stupart, whose performance features in the episode, and Jo Capper and Cheryl Jones from Grand Union, for supporting Sara’s recordings in Digbeth.
About the series
The Creative Communities Podcast shares stories from across the UK exploring how devolution, culture and creativity can unlock inclusive innovation and place-based growth.
Across Series 2, you’ll hear how communities, researchers and cross-sector partners are working together to co-create culture and innovation across the UK’s devolved nations and regions.
Credits
Creative Communities is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK (Grant Agreement No AH/X001555/1 and hosted by Northumbria University.
With podcast production and training from MIC media.
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