Creative Footprint Lab London

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Research, Advocacy

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2026-2029

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Creative Footprint Lab London is a three-year partnership between VibeLab and HOLBA, the Heart of London Business Alliance, that brings together leaders from property, culture, government and the night-time economy to rethink how we plan, invest in and govern the city after dark.

VibeLab curates and produces the programme; HOLBA is exclusive Founding and Presenting Partner.

Together, they pair VibeLab's Creative Footprint methodology, a decade of research mapping nightlife and cultural infrastructure across cities worldwide, with HOLBA's convening power across the London’s West End. Rather than treat nightlife as a problem for enforcement to manage, the Lab works through where these interests collide: licensing, investment, cultural and creative infrastructure, governance, displacement, meanwhile use, community ownership and the practical delivery of a thriving 24-hour city.

The West End is the testbed, but the format is built to work as a laboratory for the whole of London, and a model other cities can learn from.