Arts in the City

The ‘Arts in the City’ online resource builds on the research project entitled "What is a good city in the context of the Global South: The role of the arts in social-cultural urban Infrastructure’’ - a collaboration between the Royal College of Music, London (UK); the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) and the Universidad Mayor de San Simon (Bolivia); led by an international interdisciplinary team from the humanities, social sciences, medicine and urban planning sectors in partnership with established charities.  

The research aims to understand and enhance the social-cultural urban infrastructure in two cities in South America: Salvador (Brazil) and Cochabamba (Bolivia). It investigates whether active engagement with the arts can change peoples’ perceptions of their own social connectedness, loneliness, and social wellbeing and promote integration across the divide of otherness in the two case study cities.

The project is funded by the British Academy Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research 2022 fund.