Creative Industries and Creative Communities
The conference brought together a wide range of groups with an interest in promoting and growing creative industries and communities, including academics, businesses, policy managers, planners, local authorities, other public sector organisations, and creative workers.
Keynote speakers:
- Professor Calvin Taylor, Chair in Cultural Industries, School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds.
- Andrew Mackenzie, Dundee College.
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Full Conference programme can be downloaded here.
Short Film competition – Cycling in Stoke on Trent
Conference Presentations
Morning presentations
Keynote Speaker Professor Calvin Taylor, Chair in Cultural Industries, School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds: "Creative industries and creative communities: policy futures?"
Morning parallel sessions
Session 1: Cultural Industries: international perspectives1
Aaron Mo, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London: "Brno-based creatives' urban spatial activities."
Giles A. Barrett and David McEvoy, School of Social Science, Liverpool John Moores University: "The impact of Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008 on Merseyside tourism business."
Session 2: Cultural Communities1
Penny Vincent, Creative Communities Unit, Staffordshire University, and Jane Goetzee, Freelance Community Artist: "Learning from community stories using creative technologies."
Chloe Brown, Multistory: "Beyond bricks - cultural industries connecting communities."
Morning Session
Nigel Barrett, Manager, Build Up North Staffordshire, and Peta Murphy-Burke, North Staffordshire Regeneration Partnership: "Creative supply chain development in North Staffordshire."
Afternoon presentations
Keynote Speaker Andrew Mackenzie, Dundee College: "Towards fostering innovation in the creative and scientific sectors: the Creative City Challenge (CCC) project."
Interactive Workshop Carolyn Powell, Bizfizz Coach, and Clare White, Project Manager, Workers' Educational Association: "Collaboration, cooperation and generosity towards the spaces in-between; undestanding and nurturing support structures that work."
Afternoon parallel sessions
Session 1: Cultural Industries: international perspectives 2
James Fair, Lecturer in Film Technology, Staffordshire University: "Rethinking the filmmaking production models."
Tatjana Volkova, BA School of Business and Finance, and Kaspars Steinbergs, Ventspils University College, Latvia: " Policies for developing film industry clusters in the "pre-cluster" stage in Baltic States."
Session 2: Cultural Communities 2
Anna Francis, Lecturer in Fine Art, Staffordshire University: "The artist's role in the changing city."
Tony Jones, Freelance Artist, and Cath Ralph, Chief Executive, Burslem School of Art: "Creative collaboration - story of a partnership."
Afternoon Session
Arie Romein and Jan Jacob Trip, OTB Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands: "Creative city policy: bridging the gap with theory."
Conference Themes
1. Promoting the creative industries sector – which policies work?
The importance of a thriving creative sector to the economy of cities is well recognised. In this theme we are interested in how we might promote the growth of creative industries. What types of policies have been successful? What types have been unsuccessful? We are particularly interested in ‘organic’ approaches to growing a creative sector vs. ‘top-down’ policy approaches which aim to rapidly develop a creative sector from new.
2. Attracting, training, and supporting culturally creative workers
Culturally creative workers are central to promoting creativity in cities and growing the creative industries sector. In this theme we are interested in these workers, what do they do, and their importance to the creative sector. How can we attract these types of workers to our cities? How can we best support creative workers so that we foster rather than smother their creative tendencies and abilities? How do we train new creative workers for our cities?
3. Fostering cultural creativity within creative communities
Successful creative cities both provide the spaces in which creativity happens, and sustain the networks that support creativity. These creative networks, especially at the very local, grass-roots level, can be extremely fragile, and can easily be smothered by over-prescriptive policy. In this theme we are interested in how creative communities at the very local scale can be supported and grown. We are particularly interested in local initiatives that have proven to be successful in supporting and promoting creativity.
Date, venue and fee
The conference was held on Wednesday, 11th November 2009 at the Moat House Hotel, Stoke on Trent, ST1 5BQ. (By train, 45 mins from Manchester and Birmingham, 1.5 hours from London. Map)
Conference delegate fee £119 + VAT
Contact
Conference Administrator: Christine Dover 01782 294110
Conference organisers: Jon
Fairburn 01782 294038
Allan Watson 01782 2984441
Sponsors
The Creative Industries and Creative Communities Conference 2009 was sponsored by RENEW North Staffordshire:
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