The Creative Metroploes project, which several members of Interactive Cultures were involved in, has published a collection of case studies [PDF] on support for creative industries from across the project’s 11 partner cities.
Conference report from Annette Naudin.
The recent conference at the Open University, The Future of Cultural Work inspired much debate and discussion amongst delegates and touched on many pertinent issues for my PhD research into cultural entrepreneurship and education policy. With many strands including capitalism and work, precarious labour, working in television and inclusion & exclusion, it offered a variety of perspectives and provocations in relation to cultural work and cultural labour. Not only were the themes appropriate to my research, but many key academics on the subject presented and attended the conference – I must admit to being a little start-struck! Continue reading
During a recent trip to Oslo I spent some time chatting to Paal Shervan, formerly of Norway’s By:Larm Festival and now working on the Schous Cultural Brewery project. Recorded in the quietest corner we could find at the DogA during a conference (so apologies in advance for some of the background noise), I had an in depth chat with Paal. We discussed the Cultural Brewery concept and popular music heritage and about managing archives online and in the real world.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 17:55 — 14.4MB)
During my recent trip to Oslo I kept bumping into Paal Shervan, formerly of Norway’s By:Larm Festival and now working on the Schous Cultural Brewery project. A Cultural Brewery sounds slightly odd, but really it’s no stranger than our creative industries living in a Custard Factory. The Cultural Brewery is a redevelopment project that is turning a disused brewery into a world class centre for popular music education and culture. I was quite taken with this parallel between our two cities, but I had something much more important to talk to Paal about: that was our mutual interest in developing popular music archives.
Continue reading
Image CC Jon Hickman
One of yesterday’s speakers at the kick off event for Creative Metropoles was the Chief Town Planner for Oslo, Ellen S. de Vibe. In her presentation she had a lot to say about how town planning can create an environment to encourage creative industries, and help the city to learn value its creative industries. I was fortunate enough to be sat next to her at the dinner in the evening, and she explained a little more to me about here idea that cities needs to surprise their citizens and visitors, to ecnourage exploration of the space.
Continue reading
This week I am in Oslo at the kick off meeting of Creative Metropoles, and I will also be attending Kreative Oslo. I’m working on the Creative Metropoles project as a local researcher, tasked with identifying and writing up case studies of best practice in policy and funding for creative industries. Yesterday I spent an afternoon with reserachers from 12 countries, where we quickly realised that across Europe nobody knows what creative and cultural industries actually are.
Continue reading