In 2023, Tortuga and the aerie took part in Left Bank Co.’s Making Space for Culture Incubation Program, supported by the City of Sydney.
The brief went like this:
Following many years working at the coalface of creative space planning and championing alternative development models from overseas, Left Bank Co. realised the need to bring together the property sector and the cultural sector to truly tackle the creative space challenge. For three years running, Left Bank Co. has designed and delivered a professional development incubation program at no cost to participants, thanks to the City of Sydney’s ideas and innovation sponsorship program. The program brings these two sectors together to learn from international models and from one another, with the objective to build networks, share knowledge and better position both sectors to play a role in delivering future solutions to providing creative space.
And while we are not big fans of the developer culture in this city, this was a fascinating opportunity to relay the factual reality of creative space operation and its specific requirements.
Find out how it panned out here.