Creative Equity Toolkit

The Creative Equity Toolkit has links to hundreds of practical resources, inspiring case studies and important research on increasing diversity in the arts.

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Report

Measuring Cultural Engagement: A Quest for New Terms, Tools, and Techniques

Report from a symposium held in Washington, DC, in partnership with the UK’s Arts & Humanities Research Council, which brought together cultural researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from the U.S., the UK, Australia and other countries. Looks at cultural engagement measurement and evaluation strategies, and they can be made relevant to different stakeholder groups.

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  • 60 minute
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  • Published: 2014
    Country: USA

  • Author: National Endowment for the Arts

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Measuring progress

Informative round-up of the business case for monitoring diversity, written from a tech-industry perspective. Includes recommended metrics/indicators.

'Avoid vanity metrics... For example, some companies include non-engineers, like administrative assistants, in their definitions of their engineering teams, artificially inflating their diversity numbers with groups that are usually more diverse. Internally, this practice can erode trust with employees who see a lack of diversity on their teams.'

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  • 12 minute
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  • Author: Project Include

Article

Media-based Organizing

A short article and video on ‘media-based organising’ by the renowned Detroit-based, international network Allied Media Projects. Outlines this community-based, collaborative process using media, art, or technology to address the roots of problems and advance holistic and creative justice solutions.

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  • 2 minute
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  • Published: 2024
    Country: USA

  • Author: Allied Media Projects

Article

Meet the Illustrator Diversifying Airbnb's Image

AirBnB hired an illustrator to diversify its imagery and branding. This article explores how design considerations can seem small compared to policies or features for tech companies, but they are learning the value of people imagining themselves in the product.

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  • 10 minute
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  • Published: 2018
    Country: USA

  • Author: Arielle Pardes, Wired

Article

Melbourne Fringe Festival cancels show after accusations of 'yellowface'

Coverage of the the Melbourne Fringe Festival's decision to pull a show titled 'Aisha the Aussie Geisha' after 70 artists signed a letter accusing the show of yellow face published in Liminal magazine.

'Reducing entire segments of humanity to punchlines is antithetical to the values of Melbourne Fringe, and harmful and insulting to Asian and Asian-Australian people,' the letter said.

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  • 4 minute
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  • Published: 2019
    Country: Australia

  • Author: SBS News

Checklist

Mini IP Toolkit - Considerations Checklist

While not designed for arts projects, this checklist for commercial collaborations from Intellectual Property Australia attempts to ensure that major drivers and interests of all parties are understood and catered for in a collaboration contract. A hand one-page checklist to help make resources, IP and power structures explicit.

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  • 2 minute
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  • Published: N/A
    Country: Australia

  • Author: IP Australia