Eilish Victoria

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CIP Biography:

Eilish creates space for communities to collaborate; exploring new models for city-making which actively engage communities, create new opportunities and enhance quality of life. She brings people together to better understand the need for creative space in the city and develop new partnerships, with the aim of making culture and creativity more visible and valued as a key tool in the equitable transformation of our cities.

With a background in Urban Design, Eilish is passionate about how our cities and neighbourhoods can help us lead happier, healthier and more sustainable lives. She believes that creative and transparent processes allow for exciting collaborations between designers and communities, and loves bringing big ideas together and exploring the best ways to communicate them in fun, accessible ways.

Project Summary:

Creative Communities have a critical role to play in the necessary reimagining and equitable transformation of our city centres. To enable this, we need an ecosystem of creative spaces for people to gather, make, collaborate, experiment and collectively act.

For over 20 years, the University of Dundee has worked in partnership with organisations across Dundee, using culture as a means to regenerate the city. Through the ‘Creative Spaces as Catalysts for City Centre Regeneration’ project, the University of Dundee’s will work in partnership with Creative Innovation Practitioner Eilish Victoria and Creative Dundee – an organisation deeply rooted in the city and exploring the issue of creative space though their Hapworks project.

Together we will explore the models, partnerships and policies necessary to make vacant space more accessible to creative communities in Scotland.