Performance as City Pandemic Response: Innovations to Innovate

Interim report from Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded research project 'Sustaining Social Distancing and Reimagining City Life'. The report explores the value and importance of performance and the arts to city pandemic preparedness and response processes to identify 5 key challenges facing emergency planning professionals. Partly responding to calls for new approaches and ways of thinking from within emergency planning, we offer a series of 'invitations to innovate' in relation to the challenges identified, inviting conversations on questions of urban resilience, pandemic planning and response and cities’ social and aesthetic performances.