What does Performing City Resilience enable?
Our partners report on the impact of our work
Rethinking strategy
A distinctive methodology that changed how our staff think about strategy.
Strengthening reflective practice
“These approaches strengthened reflective practice nationally and equipped members with new tools to understand and improve their everyday work.”
Rethinking city systems
PCR offers “a practical tool to create a meaningful multi-disciplinary dialogue and programme of action on how to build city resilience… [PCR is] re-thinking the way that a city system is run or managed.
Embedding arts in hazard migitation
PCR has “started [New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (NOHSEP)] on a long-term path of embedding arts and cultural practices in [their] strategic planning and opened channels with valuable groups not typically included in [their] planning and project activities”
PCR enabled NOHSEP to recognise that the “art/culture community and practices represent a central part of the identity of the city and, as such, should be appropriately represented in critical planning and policy development efforts… In recognition of their efforts, NOHSEP presented [PCR] with the agency’s challenge coin … to acknowledge [their] special achievements”
Initiating dialogue
They have done a remarkable job… initiating dialogue among the performing arts community about identifying, developing and maintaining areas of resilience… causing us to consider and reconsider our strategies.
Developing practices
PCR helped us develop “[s]hared language, deeper understanding, and new ways of approaching the work.
Identifying actions
“Helped us see what we hadn’t seen — and act on it.”
Finding clarity
A calm, structured process that offered rare clarity — helping us connect purpose, strategy and community context.
Enhancing relationships
Performing City Resilience enabled us to engage with City Hall in new and exciting ways, particularly in terms of recovery planning, thereby enhancing our strategic relationship with City Hall and, thereby, the city as a whole…
[PCR] helped us recognize the importance of arts and cultural spaces as sites in which individuals and communities develop and share their specific understandings of New Orleans.
Expanding horizons
PCR “expanded the scope of our vision … a fundamental shift in our own understanding of the role of the arts in our city’s fabric… now, when we ask ourselves how our programming helps build community, we have a wider view and more solid grounding in this resilience framework.”
Deepening understandings
“Our participation in PCR project events was materially significant in shaping our approach to programming in [our] new venue, and it deepened our understanding of ourselves and our work within a context of resilience—both at the institutional and civic levels.”
“It was refreshing to reflect openly and frankly about challenges and opportunities with visitors who not only have an impressive understanding of the city, but who also intentionally created a safe environment in which to have the discussion… we valued the opportunity to think about new ways of working and new areas of practice with established and emerging partners in New Orleans… the international perspective of the [PCR team] created a particular sense of opportunity, urgency and a new call to action.”
Brokering connections
the networking opportunities provided by the PCR workshops were of palpable benefit to our thinking … particularly by providing insight into other organizations’ perspectives on resilience in a civic context.
