Outputs (6)

A new vision for city centres: Lessons from the Sparks project (2024)
Report

This interim evaluation report delves into the innovative ‘meanwhile use’ of urban spaces, a critical response to the revitalisation challenges faced by high streets, amidst financial austerity and the changing landscape of retail and cultural consum... Read More about A new vision for city centres: Lessons from the Sparks project.

An uncomfortable truth? Rethinking the relationship between neoliberalism and the creative and cultural industries (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines the profound interconnection between the creative and cultural industries (CCI) and neoliberal economic policies, highlighting the influence of such policies on the sector’s development, structural characteristics, and the chall... Read More about An uncomfortable truth? Rethinking the relationship between neoliberalism and the creative and cultural industries.

From strangers to a designer community: An ecosystem perspective of creative hub formation in Taipei City (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter argues that the notion of a creative ecosystem provides a better understanding regarding
the intrinsic rationale of how spatial agglomeration in cultural and creative industries work and
function. This is where the existing research... Read More about From strangers to a designer community: An ecosystem perspective of creative hub formation in Taipei City.

Global Creative Ecosystems: A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production (2023)
Book

This book reorients the lens of global creative economies in order to focus on ecological articulations of cultural production ecosystems. While numerous volumes and studies exist of how cities and regions all over the world produce culture, this vol... Read More about Global Creative Ecosystems: A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production.

Towards a creative and cultural industries ecosystem perspective (2023)
Book Chapter

The creative and cultural industries are increasingly being examined and understood through the lens of ecosystems as well as ecologies. Using ecosystems, and ecologies, has come on the back of a recognition that forensic efforts around defining, del... Read More about Towards a creative and cultural industries ecosystem perspective.

Creative enterprise zones impact report 2018-2021 (2023)
Report

This report brings together data and learnings from London’s first six Creative Enterprise Zones established in 2018-Brixton, Croydon, Deptford and New Cross, Hackney Wick and Fish Island, Hounslow, and Tottenham. Drawing on insights from workshops,... Read More about Creative enterprise zones impact report 2018-2021.