This Toolkit, provides some of the building blocks to help guide the process of delivering cultural infrastructure, by helping developers.
The Building Culture Toolkit is published by Dublin City Council (Arts Office and Planning), working with Turley and Arrow Architects, as a complementary resource to Chapter 12 Culture of Dublin City Development Plan.
Policies within the development plan require the delivery of 5% cultural and/or community uses within the footprint of a development if it:
The Toolkit provides some of the building blocks to help guide the process of delivering cultural infrastructure, by helping developers:
This video and Culture Infrastructure Toolkit PDF file below summarise the content of the Toolkit.
The Cultural Infrastructure Toolkit has five core documents, 2 guidance notes and 3 Toolkit resources:
This handy one page Decision Tree below gives a roadmap through the three stages of delivery.
The Partnership Framework
The Arts Council / An Comhairle Ealaíon and Dublin City Council Partnership Framework is committed to working together to promote and develop the arts in Dublin City. The Partnership Framework identified that Dublin City is divided into five administrative areas. Dublin City Arts Office has been working with Turley and Thrive towards building an Administrative Area based approach for arts development. The North Central and North-West Administrative Areas of the city were identified as areas of deficit in arts funding and infrastructure. These reports represent a pre-development phase of work, offering baseline evidence and key insights about arts practice, participation and audience development in order to highlight needs and explore possibilities such as capacity building, effective communication and resourcing for hard and soft infrastructure and sustainability.
Report 1
Dublin North-Central Arts and Cultural Infrastructure Research
Report 2
Dublin North-West Arts and Cultural Infrastructure Research
