Working with Canterbury City Council, Shea Debnam Associates has developed two editions of CD:EK, taking place in 2005/ 6 and 2009/ 11
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Curatorial Development in East Kent (CD:EK)
Our approach to Project Management
CDEK is a unique professional development programme for early career curators which brings new curatorial perspectives and capacity to visual arts venues in East Kent through mentoring, exhibitions, seminars and conferencing.
Working closely with Canterbury City Council and partnering organisations across two editions of CD:EK, Shea Debnam Associates has been responsible for developing, planning, managing and monitoring all aspects of the programme and for motivating all of those involved towards and beyond agreed expectations.
We originally developed CD:EK’s concept as part of Make it Real, Canterbury City Council’s Urban Cultural Programme (UCP) and have refined the model through the two editions in 2005/ 6 and 2009/ 2011.
We delivered a research paper on the significant strategic opportunity that the CD:EK model offers and have successfully raised funds for the programme from Arts Council England, local authorities and partnering arts organisations.
We recently completed the second edition, which built on the success of the first focussed on supporting sustainability through the embedding of curatorial expertise in East Kent.
Our Principles for Project Management Our success in delivering CD:EK and other project management initiatives has been by working with stakeholders to apportion time and responsibilities, maintaining the scope and quality of initiatives, making best use of resources and money within a clearly defined but flexible management framework which takes appropriate account of risk.
Scope Successfully balancing the needs and expectations of stakeholders, participants and beneficiaries more
Resources and Money Making best use of the skills as well as the financial resources of projects, ensuring that these match the project scopes more
Time and Responsibilities Identifying and apportioning tasks, duties and responsibilities between us, stakeholders, participants and beneficiaries more
Risk Ongoingly identifying, agreeing and appraising risks, so that they can be effectively managed with the project stakeholders more
Quality and Success Defining quality and what success will look like, and effectively implementing agreed quality standards to meet the needs of stakeholders, participants and beneficiaries more | ||||||||||
