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[ecrea] CFP: Creativity, Knowledge, Cities Conference

Fri Dec 22 23:08:35 GMT 2017





*Call for Conference Papers***

*CREATIVITY, KNOWLEDGE, CITIES*

Hosted by the Digital Cultures Research Centre, UWE Bristol

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

We are witnessing an intensification of the relationships between universities and the Creative and Cultural Industries (CCIs). The industrialisation of ‘creativity’ as a catalyst for economic growth and innovation positions universities as talent pipelines, regional anchors, and incubators for the ‘creative economy’. These trends emerge from long-standing cultural and creative policies, and the presumed impact of ‘creativity’ on regional and national economies has led to similar university-CCI relationships across Europe. Simultaneously, state funding for public services continues to contract, the role arts and culture play in society is instrumentalised, and universities are increasingly pushed towards student-consumer models. As a result, the modern university finds itself in a space of contradiction.

Our involvement with creative industries is not new. University research, particularly in the UK, has been implicated in creative economies – through practice based research, mapping, scoping, constituting and challenging - in ways that both contribute to, and contest CCI’s dominant position in political discourse. However, recent policy shifts have pushed universities into new relationships with creative industries, as talent cultivators, economic drivers and placemakers, bringing key tensions and questions to the fore. In the case of the creative economy, universities are expected to cultivate creative talent for the job market, yet the creative industries are beset by problems with inclusivity, precarity and exploitation. What assumptions, constructs and discourses underpin the relationship between the current shape of creative labour and the university? Furthermore, as researchers are called to participate in knowledge exchange and R&D initiatives with CCIs, how do institutional systems compound problems particularly around fair and prompt pay, attribution, intellectual property and the articulation of economic and cultural value?

Universities forge relationships with organisations at different scales, such as schools, third sector organisations, cultural institutions like museums and galleries, creative companies, and businesses. The complexities of these multifaceted, and cross-scalar relationships have both geographic and political inflections. How do these networks, and our participation in them, both perform postcapitalist possibilities while simultaneously constituting the ‘creative economy’ as a neoliberal construct?

As placemakers, universities may become complicit in gentrification processes by constructing new urban amenities, student housing and downtown learning hubs while concurrently supporting social goals such as inclusivity, education and accessibility. How might universities participate in broader arts-led regeneration efforts while mitigating affordable housing crises and the displacement of residents, creative workers and cultural organisations? How do these dynamics impact not only city development but also regional economic and cultural vitality?

*THEMES *

/Creativity, Knowledge and Cities/ explores the contradictions at the heart of relationships between universities and the ‘creative’ sector. We invite creative economy critics and advocates, knowledge users and research producers, policymakers and practitioners to engage in critical dialogue using case studies, empirical analyses and theoretical interventions addressing the following indicative themes.

  * The third mission and creative economies 

  * The role of critical research, and post/ anti-disciplinary approaches
  * The university and creative economy as policy 
objects 

  * The university’s role in creative networks 

  *  From STEM to STEAM 

  * Participation, inclusivity and talent 

  * Universities, CCIs and intellectual property 

  * Open access and digital divides

  * Collaboration and knowledge exchange

  * Internationalisation beyond export
  * Ecosystems, networks and value

  * Universities and the city fabric: regeneration, gentrification and
    placemaking

  * Rural-Urban university networks

  * Social engagement and everyday creativity

Sessions will be programmed as provocative panels organised around contrasting perspectives, followed by space for discussion.

*PROPOSAL SUBMISSION *

Proposals for individual papers, organised panels, informal roundtable discussions and interactive workshop sessions are welcome. Panel proposals should be organised to encourage rigorous and productive debate around key themes or critical case studies.

Individual paper abstracts should be limited to 250 words. Also include title of presentation, full name, affiliation and 3-4 keywords.

Organised panel and roundtable proposals should include a 250-word description of theme/topic and 150-word bios of participants. Please include full names and affiliations.

We welcome contributions from PhD students to take part in a networking session, which will offer a chance to present their work in a supportive environment, meet other students and engage with the conference topics. Please contact us to learn more.

Email proposals to (CreativeEconomies2018 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(CreativeEconomies2018 /at/ gmail.com)> by Friday, 2 February, 2018.

https://creativeeconomies.dcrc.org.uk/


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