{"id":1280,"date":"2009-04-07T08:56:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T15:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2009\/04\/duck_and_coverbut_dont_change\/"},"modified":"2009-04-07T08:56:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T15:56:31","slug":"duck_and_coverbut_dont_change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/duck_and_coverbut_dont_change.php","title":{"rendered":"Duck and cover&#8230;but don&#8217;t change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cultural leaders in Orlando offered an odd response to the current economic crisis with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/entertainment\/arts\/orl-asecdpac03040309apr03,0,5110764.story\">their latest decision<\/a> about the proposed $425 million Dr. P. Phillips Orlando Performing Arts Center. With a tough economy and missed targets on their fundraising, they&#8217;ve decided that architects should continue with detailed construction blueprints on the facility, while they wait for the economy to stabilize. In a year or so, with detailed plans, they say they&#8217;ll be in a better place to make their next decision.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a chilling metaphor for much of our industry&#8217;s response to economic and social shock in the past year &#8212; duck and cover, cut and suspend, but don&#8217;t significantly change the way you work. Once we come out the other side, we seem to be saying, all will return to what it was.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess what the other side of this seismic shift looks like, whether it&#8217;s boomtown again for cultural facilities, or whether the high-fixed-cost strategies become largely unsustainable. But these days, <i>every<\/i> industry is rethinking how it aligns capital, cash, and debt toward larger goals (from airlines to banks to manufacturing to insurance). It seems reasonable that the arts should be rethinking as well.<\/p>\n<p>What if, in the coming year, Orlando decided to dive into an open charrette of the many ways $425 million can be invested in their community in sustainable and dynamic ways (or $350 million, or $200 million)? What if they didn&#8217;t assume that the plans that made sense a few years ago still make sense today, or tomorrow?&nbsp; <br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cultural leaders in Orlando offered an odd response to the current economic crisis with their latest decision about the proposed $425 million Dr. P. Phillips Orlando Performing Arts Center. With a tough economy and missed targets on their fundraising, they&#8217;ve decided that architects should continue with detailed construction blueprints on the facility, while they wait [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}