Event

The 4th CivicLAB Annual Conference, 2024

Date and time
Thursday, 4 July 2024
09.30 - 16.00

Location
Artcore Gallery
8 Albert Street
Derby
DE1 2DS

The CivicLAB Conference 2024

CivicLAB is based at the University of Derby, a UNESCO City of Life Long Learning and home to a fantastic selection of World Heritage Sites. It has been designed to support academics, creative and cultural industry professionals and freelance creatives to share their insights on research and practice through a place-based approach to knowledge generation. 

The main objective of the Conference is to provide a supportive and creative environment for academics, creative and cultural industry professionals and freelance artists to share their insights on research and practice through a place-based approach to knowledge generation. Together, we will discuss approaches to building civic practice, research and community capacity as a means of addressing long-standing social issues.

As a Civic University, we are committed to supporting Derby and Derbyshire, our place, our people and its rich and diverse community by enacting and enabling imaginative communities to flourish and support creative cultural ecosystems and strategies to grow.

2024 Conference themes

Conference Chair: Dr Cara Courage

Cara is the Editor and Convenor of The Routledge Handbook of Placemaking (Routledge, 2021); Co-Editor of Creative Placemaking and Beyond (Routledge, 2018); and author of The Arts in Place: The Arts, the Urban and Social Practice (Routledge, 2017).

Find out more about CivicLAB

Conference programme 2024

9:30am - 10:00am 

10:00am - 10:30am 

10:30am - 10:50am

10:55am - 11:15am

11:15am - 12:30pm 

Panellists: 

12:30pm - 1:00pm

1:00pm - 1:10pm 

1:10pm - 2:00pm (Lunch)

1:30pm - 1:45pm 

1:45pm - 2:00pm 

2:00pm - 2:10pm 

2:15pm - 2:30pm 

2:30pm - 2:45pm

2:45pm - 3:00pm 

3:00pm - 3:10pm (Refreshment break)

3:15pm - 3:55pm 

3:55pm - 4:00pm 

Certificates of attendance can be issued, post-conference by emailing civiclab@derby.ac.uk 

Our venue

Artcore Gallery - 8 Albert Street, Derby, DE1 2DS

Organising Committee

For more information surrounding Civic, please email at civiclab@derby.ac.uk or visit the CivicHUB page.