SDG Innovation Lab
Demonstrating the Impact of Culture
About
The Culture Next SDG Lab is a collaborative innovation space helping cities demonstrate the impact of their cultural activities and connect culture to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Working with our partners at Whitelabel, we’re co-designing and building new tools and methods to measure, compare and amplify the cultural impact of cities across Europe and advocate for a Cultural SDG.
What We’re Doing:
A Strategic Innovation Lab for Culture in Cities.
Through collaborative experiments, we’re helping cities:
- Align local strategies with global cultural and SDG goals.
- Develop shared indicators for cultural impact.
- Use data and AI for smarter cultural decision-making.
What We’ve Got So Far: Methods And Tools
The Culture Next Framework:
- Development of six strategic thematic areas for alignment to global frameworks.
- Condensed over 3000 indicators from across the cities into 26 aligned and comparable indicators.
- A glossary of common terms and policy recommendations.
Cultural Strategy AI Dashboard
- Upload strategies, reports and cultural documents.
- Analyse them against the Culture Next Framework and SDG indicators.
- Benchmark performance with other cities.
- Visualise strengths, gaps and opportunities through your city co-pilot.
- Reporting and alignment made easy.
Cultural Conversations
- A public interface to make cultural strategies more accessible.
- Analysing how citizens are engaging with cultural strategy across the cities.
