Category: Creative Industries
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New York, LA and London: A Creative Industry World City Network
Being the newest member of the Globalisation and World Cities Research Group at Loughborough University, I thought that it was worth splicing together my interest in the creative industries and cultural economy with the methodologies of my new Ivory Tower. What GaWC pioneered in recent years was a methodology to…
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Creative Recessions: Are the Creative Industries the way out?
The last few weeks has seen myself and other creative industry commentators share information (through Twitter, Google Reader feeds etc) about how various institutions, companies, governments and individuals are championing the cultural and creative industries (some saying ‘the arts’) as a way out of the current financial turmoil. There is…
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Technologies, Local Governance and Community Informatics
The global economic downturn has forced us all to re-evaluate our economic, social and personal assets. A panacea that is often heralded for the general community malaise that is a consequence of the global crisis is community engagement and increased civil participation. This can take many forms, however a key…
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Andy Duncan puts Creative Industries back on the Map
The creative industries seem to have reached somewhat of a plateau in recent years in terms of their progression as a concept or vehicle for improving our economic competencies. I don’t mean in terms of actual economic performance, indeed David Harte recently blogged about how the creative industries may be…
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Who’s going to do the changing? Obama’s Victory and the Creative Class
First of all, congratulations to Barack, he certainly talks the talks, now lets see if he really can ‘change’ America – I think we all know what that would entail. I wanted to make a quick observation though. Watching the news this morning and seeing the cheering Obama supporters, one…
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Pitching up: Freelancers in the Creative Industries
There remain very few industrial sectors in which freelancers do not operate, yet they remain peculiarly absent from the mainstream academic literature (when it does, it exists sporadically). Focusing on, and researching these freelancers holds particular relevance to the creative industries, as much of the work undertaken is project-based, with…
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Underground Music
The London Underground system, known as ‘the Tube’ is often held up as the quintessential underground network map as it navigates the city dwellers to and from their starting point and destination with ease, in contrast to the complex and non-grid-lined road layout of the above ground roads (Vertesi, 2008).…
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Creative Industries: An Oxymoron?
It will be of little surprise to the majority of readers that the creative industries have become big business – they are the focus of a multitude of local, city, region and national governments’ attempts to redevelop, regenerate and reignite growth and development in their ‘place’. But their benefit and…
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