[Commlist] CFP: Rethinking, Resisting, and Reimagining the Creative City

      *CALL FOR PROPOSALS*


    */CKC 2019: Rethinking, Resisting, and Reimagining the Creative City/*


    */12-13 September, 2019/*


      Hosted by the Digital Cultures Research Centre, UWE Bristol


      *Proposal Deadline: 29 March, 2019*

In July 2018, the Digital Cultures Research Centre at the University of 
the West of England convened the first */Creativity, Knowledge, Cities 
(CKC) Conference /*to critically explore the tensions between the 
creative sector, cities and universities. We invite scholars to build on 
these productive debates by submitting proposals for */CKC 2019: 
Rethinking, Resisting, and Reimagining the Creative City./*

The ‘Creative Economy’ continues to be predominantly imagined and 
evaluated in terms of a narrow set of economic metrics and neoliberal 
assumptions regarding the value of ‘culture’, ‘creativity’, ‘digital’ 
and ‘innovation’. Despite the sector’s economic ‘success’, such policies 
often elide the persistent consequences associated with the creative 
economy including labour precarity, economic exclusion, gentrification, 
uneven regional development and negative health and well-being impacts.

Further, the University is becoming increasingly implicated in these 
dynamics. Regional and national economic policies position universities 
as urban placemakers, real estate developers, talent pipelines, and 
drivers of innovation. Through research practices, value metrics, and 
indicators of impact, scholars may also play a role in reproducing 
dominant constructions of the creative economy and subsequently, urban 
exclusions. The UK’s Creative Clusters Programme, which links 
universities, the creative sector and national industrial strategies, is 
illustrative of these policies, and we especially welcome critical 
attention to these projects this year.

Against this backdrop of neoliberalism coupled with continued austerity 
measures, Brexit, Trumpism, and increasing nationalism, creative 
practitioners, cultural organisations and their collaborators 
participate in various strategies of resilience and resistance. Hybrid 
academic-creative spaces of open innovation, radical organisational 
forms, plural economic practices and values, creative citizenship, and 
cultural activism, point to how global cultural networks are engaged 
with economies of care, urban repair, playful politics and experiments 
in performing just urban futures. However, these activities are often at 
risk for appropriation and displacement by urban growth regimes, and all 
the challenges associated with them.

Exploring these contradictory and complex dynamics in tandem, how might 
we reimagine the relationships between places, the creative sector and 
the university in order to collectively work towards more resilient and 
just urban futures? How do concepts such as ‘inclusive growth’, 
‘sustainable development’, ‘smart cities’, ‘urban commons’ and ‘the just 
city’ relate to these concerns? How can we mitigate the many and varied 
social, economic and cultural costs of creative urban policy?

Using these three themes of *Rethinking*, *Resisting*, and *Reimagining, 
*and foregrounding the notion of *Inclusivity *of all forms and at all 
scales, we welcome proposals for organised panels, individual paper 
presentations, roundtables and interactive workshops.

Topics may include:

  * Creative economy and university as policy objects
  * Creative Industry Cluster programmes
  * Co-creation, knowledge production, innovation
  * Creative labour, ownership and justice
  * Creative networks, ecologies, platforms
  * Post/anti-disciplinary research and activism
  * Cultural value, metrics, critical evaluation practices
  * Cultural production, manufacturing and digital fabrication
  * Placemaking, regeneration, gentrification
  * Inequality, mobility, representation, belonging
  * Creative citizenship, commoning, governance
  * Circular economies and sustainable development
  * Urban and university futures

We invite proposals from international scholars representing diverse 
backgrounds, research and practice disciplines, including urban studies, 
cultural studies, cultural policy, arts, geography, sociology, 
economics, and technology studies. We are especially interested in 
research representing a diverse mix of global, national and local contexts.

View *PROPOSAL GUIDELINES* and *SUBMIT ABSTRACTS* here: 
_https://uwe.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/CKC2019 
<https://uwe.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/ckc2019>_ or email 
(_CreativeEconomies2019 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(CreativeEconomies2019 /at/ gmail.com)>_ to discuss alternative methods 
for submission.


*IMPORTANT DATES*

Proposals due: 29 March, 2019

Decisions announced: 26 April, 2019

Participant confirmation required: 17 May, 2019

Early bird registration deadline: 30 June, 2019

Conference: 12-13 September, 2019


*CONFERENCE REGISTRATION*

Early bird registration: £175

Regular registration: £250

Concession rate (students, activists, cultural workers): £100

There are limited funds to support Early Career Researchers and PhD 
students. Please email for further details.



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