The Rural Cultural Wealth Lab addresses some of the most critical issues facing rural people and places through the development of innovative metrics that identify opportunities to improve rural quality of life and quality of place. The RCW Lab considers the roles that arts, culture, entrepreneurship, and innovation play in forming the diverse assets within rural communities.
The Rural Cultural Wealth Lab is a National Endowment for the Arts Research Lab with additional support from the USDA and the University of Iowa.
To create a more robust conceptual framework for understanding the diverse assets within rural communities, RUPRI scholars developed the Comprehensive Rural Wealth Framework. This framework considers eight different types of wealth assets that may be found within a community.
The Role of the Arts & Cultural Capital in Rural Innovation & Entrepreneurship: Feb. 23 & 25, 2021
RUPRI is hosting a virtual research conference on the important role that arts and cultural capital play in rural innovation, community well-being, and rural community sustainability and resiliency. This virtual conference will ask the research community to explore issues of rural cultural capital through basic research and collaborations with researchers.
The technical working group identifies potential research opportunities and grant opportunities for the RCW Lab to pursue and recommends a direction for the RCW Lab.
February 23-25 2020 RUPRI and the RUPRI Rural Cultural Wealth-Lab will be hosting a virtual research conference, Role of the Arts and Cultural Capital in Rural
The RUPRI Rural Cultural Wealth Lab is pleased to announce the release of several products from the first phase of the Lab’s research. These are
Our review of the literature reveals that: Current research in arts and culture, creativity, and innovation has a significant metropolitan bias. Most research either focuses
The Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) is honored to announce that John Davis, who recently retired as Executive Director of Lanesboro Arts in Minnesota, has
January 23, 2018 The RUPRI Rural Cultural Wealth Lab is one of four inaugural National Endowment for the Arts Research Labs named last year, following a
Browse the RUPRI library for more work on the Rural Cultural Wealth Lab.
Browse the RUPRI library for more work on Cultural Wealth.
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