All Outputs (38)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Proximity and knowledge sharing in coworking spaces: The case of São Paulo (2023)
Journal Article

This paper studies proximity and knowledge creation and sharing in coworking spaces, which are currently abundant in large metropolitan areas. Physical and non-physical proximities can have a positive effect on knowledge sharing, as they facilitate c... Read More about Proximity and knowledge sharing in coworking spaces: The case of São Paulo.

Social inclusion and SMEs: The case of creative SMEs in Hackney Wick and Fish Island, London (2022)
Journal Article

Creative cluster urban policy, aimed at regenerating parts of cities in the UK, has been linked with ameliorating social exclusion in the extant policy literature. This is paradoxical given levels of exclusion within the creative and cultural industr... Read More about Social inclusion and SMEs: The case of creative SMEs in Hackney Wick and Fish Island, London.

Cultural districts and innovation: A focus on the global south (2022)
Report

This report explores how cultural districts in the Global South are either innovating or creating the conditions to meet the needs of new and existing challenges – either brought about or amplified by the pandemic. Here, innovation is understood as t... Read More about Cultural districts and innovation: A focus on the global south.

Investment into R&D will be vital for the recovery of creative and cultural organisations (2021)
Digital Artefact

Tarek Virani looks at the impacts of the pandemic on the UK's creative and cultural sector, and why the evidence shows that investing into R&D is vital for helping organisations recover from COVID-19.

Live art sector research - A report mapping the UK live art sector (2021)
Report

Live Art Sector Research – A Report Mapping the UK Live Art Sector is the first ever UK-wide research project into the Live Art sector, funded by Arts Council England and commissioned by the Live Art Development Agency in partnership with Live Art UK... Read More about Live art sector research - A report mapping the UK live art sector.

Mapping the creative economy around Durga Puja (2021)
Report

This project has investigated the Durga Puja Festival in West Bengal in order to develop a framework and a methodology for more extensive mapping of the economic worth of the creative industries in West Bengal. It was commissioned by the British Coun... Read More about Mapping the creative economy around Durga Puja.

Business resilience and visual art: New directions for research in business- oriented practice for visual artists (2021)
Report

Surprisingly, relatively few studies exist that ask what resilience looks like for freelancers and this is especially true for visual artists; who are the main focus of this study. This research asks what factors increase business resilience for visu... Read More about Business resilience and visual art: New directions for research in business- oriented practice for visual artists.

From catastrophe to hybridity to recovery? Unpacking the implications of a sector in transition as a result of COVID-19: A focus on South West England’s creative and cultural sector (2021)
Report

COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on the creative and cultural sector in South West England. This is the first comprehensive piece of work looking at the impact on the region but also asking questions about medium and long term transition and res... Read More about From catastrophe to hybridity to recovery? Unpacking the implications of a sector in transition as a result of COVID-19: A focus on South West England’s creative and cultural sector.

Micro-community engagement and area-based regeneration in East London: The case of Chrisp Street Market (2020)
Journal Article

This paper critically engages with how the notion of community is used in local economic development in England. Its primary concern is how current understandings of the concept of ‘community’ in regeneration, as well as how it is instrumentalised th... Read More about Micro-community engagement and area-based regeneration in East London: The case of Chrisp Street Market.

Coworking spaces in urban settings: Prospective roles? (2020)
Journal Article

Coworking spaces (CWS) are workplaces created to provide infrastructure and interaction opportunities for independent professionals and freelancers. They are a result of a trend toward flexible and project-based assignments, shared use of durable ass... Read More about Coworking spaces in urban settings: Prospective roles?.

São Paulo’s creative hubs: Local embeddedness as a tool for creative cluster development (2020)
Book Chapter

Hip Hub? Class, Race and Gender in Creative Hubs (2019)
Book Chapter

Creative Hubs In Question - Introduction (2019)
Book Chapter

Exploring the Relationship between Creative Hubs and Urban Policy in East London (2019)
Book Chapter