Working in collaboration with internationally renowned organisations, creative communities and practitioners to stimulate innovative practice and highlight the impact of artists and designers on us all. Strategic thinking in Art and Design helps people to develop the ability to work towards change. Many of our partnerships are based on a genuine desire to tackle aspects of societal challenges facing local communities globally, the need for people to belong and to have their cultural contribution recognised, the need for cities to change to meet technological and economic shifts while taking various and varying communities with them on the journey and importantly, the need to play a central part in an ecologically sustainable strategy for the global built environment. Our collaborations have been primarily forged, sustained and are maintained, within the public sector, including major international museums services, publicly funded art galleries, libraries, art and history archives, public record offices, county and city council arts development units, city planning units, cultural strategy groups, city re-generation agencies and a number of community arts projects. Most recently significant commercial partnerships have developed around sustainable materials for building.