[ecrea] CFP: Creativity, Knowledge, Cities Conference

*Creativity, Knowledge, Cities*

*Hosted by the Digital Cultures Research Centre, UWE Bristol*

*4th-5th July 2018, Bristol, UK*

*CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS*

For over twenty years, creativity has been hailed as a panacea for 
challenges as diverse as economic growth, urban regeneration, social 
cohesion and wellbeing. However, since the crash of 2008, it seems that 
there is no creative transformation of the economy on offer. The promise 
of digital has dissolved in the monopolisation of attention by companies 
like Google and Facebook. The gig economy has exploited the promise of 
technology by supporting precarity and unstable working conditions 
whilst arts and cultural infrastructure continue to face excessive cuts 
in the face of austerity. And yet, alternatives to capitalism continue 
to be cultivated through emancipatory network cultures, platforms of 
co-operation, and other creative practices geared towards generating 
radical social innovation.

Under these conditions, we argue that universities have become key 
brokers in the development of regional cultural clusters and networks. 
As well as talent pipelines for the creative sector, they offer 
knowledge, money, brokerage, and stability to dynamic creative sectors. 
In light of their ‘third mission’, universities are becoming enmeshed in 
more intimate relationships with creative and cultural industry 
partners, raising key questions. Who are the winners and losers in these 
new cultural sector-university relationships? What happens when arts 
organisations see universities as key investors? What policy directions 
can we develop that move us away from uncritical advocacy to critical 
engagement? How could the university intervene to support placemaking 
that is inclusive, anti-austerity, pro-enterprise, and encourages a 
common space to share knowledge, experience and skills?

/Creativity, Knowledge, Cities/invites academics, activists, and 
practitioners to contribute to critical and productive dialogue around 
these tensions. Sessions will be programmed as provocative panels 
organised around contrasting perspectives, followed by space for discussion.

*Abstracts due Friday, 2 February, 2018.*

Visit
https://creativeeconomies.dcrc.org.uk
for more information.


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