In 2024 ODAC's Trustees and Staff have refreshed our Vision, Mission and Values. They have been developed through action over the last couple of years, drawing on the spirit of our history, the urgent realities of now, and the need to imagine new futures for a neighbourhood and city in flux.
VISION
'To catalyse artistic creation and collaboration to transform our society and city.’
Photograph from Regent’s Roots 2023, credit Zbigniew Kotkiewicz
MISSION
‘To be a vibrant, nurturing centre where artists and residents come together to make the change they need; serving as a springboard for artistic creation and community action, with the neighbourhood and cityscape of Euston as our inspiration, collaborator and stage.’
VALUES
COLLABORATIVE
We believe that ideas are enhanced and change is created through exchange and partnership. We work with other voices and across disciplines to support new ideas.
EXPLORATORY
We are a creation centre: for making; for early stages of ideas; for taking risks, trying new things and seeing what happens. We learn through doing, and challenge ourselves to do things differently.
COMMUNAL
We bring people together, to meet and share experiences, space and resources. We are open, flexible, adaptive, and led by the changing needs and goals of our communities.
REGENERATIVE
We’re committed to ensuring our organisation creates a positive impact on the world around us: our natural environment and climate, as well as the people and communities we are part of.
MULTIPLICITY
We embrace and nurture variety in our users, our projects, our team, our collaborators. We are different things to different people, and we celebrate that multiplicity and the diversity that it brings.
Photograph of Lucky Pigeons by Brainfools performing at Regents Roots 2023, Photo credit: Claire Haigh
OUR ACTIVITY AND FOCUS
Arts creation and communities – the two key elements of ODAC’s work – are mutually reinforcing and never binary. We support multiple, overlapping communities of place, interest, identity, profession and more, all creating together and building new communities in the process.
With the arts as our tool, we work towards the cohesion of communities who live and work in the Euston area, particularly the Regent’s Park ward of Camden.
We produce the conditions needed for new collaborations to form, ideas to be brought to life and communities to thrive through creativity.
Dedicated to making, while much of what we do begins behind the closed doors of our studios centre, our programmes burst through our glass walls into the streets, spaces, organisations, economies, and fabric of the communities around us.
SPACE TO CREATE
Space for the live arts, creative industries and local communities to make, explore and collaborate.
RESIDENT PARTICIPATION
Inclusive, participatory projects co-created with residents of Regent’s Park ward and wider Camden.
ARTISTIC EXPLORATION
Interdisciplinary artistic support and commissioning, as part of London’s Knowledge Quarter.
Our focus is on:
CIVIC & SOCIAL ACTION
Using the arts as our tool to contribute to the health, wellbeing and cohesion of our communities, and the development of the environments in which we are located.
