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Workspace Provider Survey - Creative Workspaces: A Research Project & Action-led Report for Birmingham


Introduction
Thank you for your interest in taking part in this survey.

This survey is part of Creative Workspaces: A Research Project & Action-led Report for Birmingham commissioned and led by CVAN WM (Contemporary Visual Arts Network West Midlands) and hosted by DASH.

The research is being undertaken by Meaningfully Ltd to better understand creative workspace provision in Birmingham, including availability, accessibility, affordability, sustainability, demand, pressures and future needs.

This survey is intended for organisations, groups, collectives, studio providers, cultural organisations, workspace operators and others involved in providing, managing, hosting or supporting visual arts workspace in Birmingham.

For this research, visual arts includes contemporary artistic practice such as
  • Crafts
  • Drawing, painting, printmaking & graphic art
  • Graffiti and mural art
  • Live art and performance
  • Moving image
  • New media and digital art
  • Photography
  • Sculpture and installation
  • Sound art
  • Text-based art & artist’s books
  • Socially engaged art and participatory practice, within the above
  • Interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary or hybrid practice, including crossover with design, architecture or other creative disciplines

The findings will be used to help inform future work, advocacy and planning around creative workspace provision, with the aim of supporting more responsive, sustainable and accessible provision for artists and the wider visual arts ecology.

The deadline for completing the survey is 5pm on Friday 28th August.
Taking part
The survey should take around 20 minutes to complete.

Taking part is voluntary. You can skip any question unless it is marked as required, and you can stop at any point before submitting.

If you would prefer to complete the survey over the phone or via video call, please contact Anne Forgan at anne@dasharts.org.

There is also a separate survey for artists. If you are both an artist and a provider/host/manager of workspace, please feel free to complete both.
Privacy and how your response will be used
This survey is collected via SurveyMonkey and analysed by Meaningfully Ltd.

Responses will be reported in summary form, so individual workspaces are not identifiable. We may use short anonymised quotes in reports or communications, but any identifying details will be removed.

Some optional questions cover demographics, access needs, or personal circumstances. These help us understand equity and access, but you do not have to answer them. These responses will only ever be reported in aggregate.

Access to the raw data is limited to Meaningfully Ltd, CVAN WM and DASH for research purposes only. It will not be sold or used for marketing.

Full privacy information is available here.

For questions about the research, contact: Ellen@ellenohara.com