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Resilience Checklist

What does resilience look like as a whole?

This tool provides insight into all components of resilience, from purpose to community, team to financials, to assess the direction, strength and sustainability of a creative hub.

It is recommended to evaluate the founding team together with the support of a facilitator.

Challenges

Further Readings

Resilience Self-Assessment and Crisis Planning Tool
Resilience Toolkit – National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE)

This toolkit helps small businesses assess their own resilience capacity, conduct risk analyses, and develop crisis plans for priority areas. Its three-stage structure enables organizations to identify internal strengths and gaps (health check), analyze internal and external risks in a structured way (risk analysis), and create crisis plans (crisis planning). With a user-friendly interface and automatic reporting features, it offers a practical assessment process.


Resilience for the Cultural Sectors: A Reading on the Role of Creative Spaces in Times of Crisis
Culture in times of COVID-19: resilience, recovery and revival UNESCO and United Arab Emirates. Department of Culture and Tourism, 2022

This report examines how the cultural sector survived and revived during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting why creative hubs are critical in times of crisis. It illustrates how hubs provide safe spaces for freedom of expression, intercultural dialogue, and the collective development of creative industries. From a resilience perspective, it offers a conceptual ground for reflecting on the role of hubs.


Layers of Resilience in the Creative Industries: An Academic Study on Individuals, Organizations, and Networks
Peters, Merril, & de Nie (2024), Organisational Resilience in the Dutch Creative Industries 

This resource approaches organizational resilience in the creative industries not only through internal structures but across four levels: from individuals to teams, from organizations to sectoral networks. It is particularly valuable for creative hub managers, policymakers, and network builders who seek to generate long-term impact without being confined to short-term funding cycles. The source emphasizes income diversification, flexible governance, and collaboration-oriented structures, while also drawing attention to external network factors that support resilience (such as supply chains, knowledge integration, and digital infrastructure). It provides a multi-layered foundation for those pursuing strategic sustainability in complex systems.

Staying True to Purpose While Adapting: Adaptive Resilience for Cultural Institutions
Making Adaptive Resilience Real ( 2010, Arts Council England)

This source focuses on the capacity of cultural institutions to remain productive and preserve their core purpose while adapting to changing conditions. It defines the concept of “adaptive resilience” as something that develops through the interplay of multiple factors—ranging from financial flexibility to organizational learning, from collective memory to leadership open to experience. For institutions seeking to build resistance against crises, it outlines the structural and cultural conditions necessary not only to endure but also to transform. It offers managers, strategists, and practitioners a roadmap for enhancing reflective capacity.


A Dialogue on Community-Based Creative Resilience
Directors Talk: Creative Resilience for a Planet B (2022, Ars Electronica)

This conversation discusses the need to transform the concept of resilience in creative fields from an individual survival strategy into a practice of solidarity and collective adaptation across communities. Participants frame resilience not as resistance to change, but as the ability to change together and to develop forward-looking strategies. The source provides an inspiring perspective on how, especially within creative communities, internal bonds and a shared sense of responsibility can become transformative in facing systemic crises.


Connecting Creativity, Resilience, and Community-Building
Resilience and Creative Empowerment ( TEDx, Seth Bernard, 2017)

 

This TEDx talk presents a framework that views creativity as a resilience practice, exploring how creative power at both individual and community levels can merge with collective impact.

Related Sections

Purpose of the Hub

How does your purpose determine the overall direction of your structure, from decision-making processes to team motivation, and how does that direction evolve over time?

Hub Features

To what extent does your structure reflect the key characteristics of creative hubs and how do these characteristics reflect on your work?

Indicators of Success

By what indicators do you define the success of your hub and how do you understand, measure and evaluate its real impact?

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