Let’s make it public! is the title of a valuable selection of articles on developing audiences for the arts and cultural industries which have been written by professionals from different European countries and from different points of view and disciplines.

This publication has good ideas and best practices from Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom and Italy to use in improving the relationship between artistic and cultural organisations and their audiences.

It has been directed by the team at Asimetrica as coordinators of a work which will be of great use to everyone who works professionally in culture management as well as small scale entrepreneurs who manage their own initiatives.

The CARPET project is coordinated by the Fundación Tres Culturas (Three Cultures Foundation) together with the following partners in other countries: Creative Kernow in England, UK, CEARTE: Centro de Formaçao Profissional para o Artesanato e Património in Portugal and APDN: Agence pour le Développoment du Nord du Maroc in Morocco. This project has financial support from the Europa Creativa European programme.

Articles from: Inês Bettencourt da Câmara, Stuart Nicolle, Raúl Ramos, Antonia Silvaggi, Federica Pesce, Ana Bragança and Ricardo Baptista.

It was published in october 2019.

JOURNEY MAPPING* is the process of identifying every encounter and interaction that your customers or audience have with your organisation (known as “touchpoints”), and analysing how these encounters can be improved - for both you and your audience.

This resource provides us a very useful template to apply this logics to arts organizations.
Is was created in 2013.

Download this useful tool to evaluate your touchpoints. 

*Journey mapping is often also referred to as ‘Customer Journey Mapping’ or ‘Customer Experience Mapping’.

This guide to audience development planning reflects the views and experience of The Audience Agency team and is based on a combination of documented theory and our observations and experience of what helps organisations to develop thriving, sustainable audiences. 

It is vital to note that there is no single, right way to create an audience plan. Organisations play different roles in the “cultural eco-system”, and any audience development plan should reflect the scale, resources, personality and purpose of each. Organisations try to reach different audiences for different reasons and do so in different ways. This diversity is the sign of a healthy, creative and audience-focused eco-system. 

What this guide suggests is a flexible process that can help organisations surface and test its ambitions for developing audiences and then take realistic steps towards achieving them with a good chance of success. The framework for building a plan is a simple one, suitable for all sorts of experiences, artforms and types of organisations, regardless of scale, resources or mission. 

The audience plan – and phases of the planning process - can be more or less integrated into other plans, as long as it is commonly understood and used. This process is embedded in our online audience development planner. The tool offers a simplified 6-step process (as detailed in this article) guiding users through the process of creating their plan. Plans can be saved and downloaded as word/pdf documents in Audience Finder www.audiencefinder.org/plan/