[ecrea] CFP: Creative Citizens: the conference

*Creative Citizens: the conference***

Royal College of Art, London,/ September 18-19/ 2014
http://creativecitizens.co.uk/events/

*Call for Papers***

Creative citizens make new things happen in their communities. Their 
activities are vital to civic life but also to the creative economy, 
where their contribution mostly goes uncounted. They invent new ways of 
delivering music, visual art, film and literature. They come together as 
fans; they make things, sharing space and place.

The conference is the climax of a 20 month multidisciplinary research 
project, Media Community and the Creative Citizen which explores the 
dynamics of creative citizenship in the context of digital media. We ask 
how social media are affecting the value and sustainability of creative 
citizenship and, with our community partners around the UK, we 
experiment with co-created media interventions to enhance networks of 
creative citizenship in Bristol, Birmingham & London.

We now want to widen our conversation, test our findings and convene a 
network of researchers and activists interested in developing research, 
policy and activism around the idea of Creative Citizenship. We are 
looking for conference contributions that include themes or topics such as:

Definition of, and critical perspectives on, creative citizenship
Research approaches and methods
Cultural, economic, civic and social values of creative citizenship
Creativity and innovation
Co-production and design
Representation and identity
Inclusion/exclusion
Practices and business models
Role of media literacy and creative skills
Research Ethics
UK and international case studies
The impacts of creative citizenship and its practices: critique, 
evaluation and measurement
Policy and investment

We are delighted to have keynote contributions from:

*Paola Antonelli*, curator for the Department of Architecture and Design 
at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

*Jean Burgess*, Queensland University of Technology, one of the first 
researchers to focus on every day creativity and the digital Jean is the 
co-author of the groundbreaking /YouTube: Online Video and Participatory 
Culture./

*John Hartley* is Professor of Cultural Science and Director of the 
Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University (Perth, Western 
Australia).

*Geoff Mulgan* is Chief Executive of Nesta. He is a visiting professor 
at LSE, UCL, Melbourne University and a regular lecturer at the China 
Executive Leadership Academy.

*Ian Hargreaves* holds The Chair of Digital Economy at the University of 
Cardiff.

We are looking for conference contributions from arts and humanities and 
social sciences in the form of traditional papers (15 mins) as well as 
informal poster presentations from early career researchers and PhD 
students. The conference will have three tracks and several workshops; 
we will programme two tracks from this call.

Please send your abstracts to (creativecitizensproject /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(creativecitizensproject /at/ gmail.com)%20> by 5pm (GMT) on Monday 
20th January 2014.

Notifications in March 2014. *Hold the date.* Booking will be available 
in Feb 2014.
http://creativecitizens.co.uk/events/