Build a system, not a site.

principle — attributed to Mike Duignan

The Centre for Events & Festivals does not behave like media or like an association brochure. It behaves as a working operating layer. Career planning, burnout, advocacy, accessibility, workforce planning, mentoring, recognition, jobs, standards — usually drifting around as separate categories — sit inside one connected ecosystem. The point is not content. The point is structure.

Duignan's build at eventsandfestivals.org, framed against decades of industry patchwork.

infrastructure, professionalisation, ecosystem, industry-tools