scholarly journals European Creativity and Urban Regeneration

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Ana Oliveira ◽  
Fernando Paulino
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Art Galleries ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Ultimate Objective ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Industrial Societies

<p class="Corpo">Since the end of the 1980s, in the light of research conducted by Charles Landry that theorized and formalized the concept of the Creative City, Creativity, along with other economic activities, has been considered as something that marks the life of cities.<br />Under its sign, a large part of post-industrial societies found the necessary momentum for urban and economic revitalisation, responding to the stagnation resulting from the collapse of industrial society (Albuquerque, 2006). Through the production of art and the strengthening of its cultural fabric, through the support of artists and infrastructures, Creative Industries grew and developed. Cities like Manchester, London and Liverpool saw their economy grow, the latter becoming a major cultural hub in the UK, incorporating music, performing arts, museums and art galleries, as well as an active and attractive nightlife.<br />Through a literature review focused on the key concepts and studies relating to the economic potential of Creativity, we seek to understand Creativity’s state, its impact and economic impulse and the importance of cultural policies, with the ultimate objective of understanding Creative and Cultural Industries as a secure source of sustainability for the future.</p>

Counting on Carrington Road: Street Numbers as Metonyms of the Urban

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Crosby ◽  
Kirsten Seale
Keyword(s):  
Visual Presentation ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Urban Futures ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City

As urban renewal agendas are fortified in cities globally, ‘creativity’ – as contained within discourses of the creative industries, the Creative City and the creative economy – is circulated as the currency of secure post-industrial urban futures. Using the nexus between creativity and the urban as a starting point, the authors investigate how local enterprises visually communicate the urban in a neighbourhood that is characterized by the interface between manufacturing and creative industries. This research takes a fine-grained approach to the notion of creativity through an audit and qualitative analysis of the visual presentation, material attributes and semiotic meaning of street numbers. The authors do this by collecting data on and analysing how street numbers have been made, selected, used, replaced and layered in a contested industrial precinct in Australia’s largest city, Sydney. They contend that street numbers, as a ubiquitous technology within the city that is both operational and creative, are metonyms for what they understand to be urban. In arguing for vernacular readings of the city, they make use of a top-down, governmental mode of reading the city – the operational legibility of street numbering – as an intervention in current discourses of the urban and of creativity in the city.

Attention to Education in the Post-Industrial Society

2019 ◽  
pp. 135-152
Author(s):  
Christoffer Green-Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Primary Schools ◽  
Party System ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Incentive Model ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Policy Problems

This chapter provides an analysis of party system attention to education based on the issue incentive model. The analysis shows that large, mainstream parties’ incentives are the key factor in explaining the dynamics of party system attention to education. However, compared to the three issues analysed before, problem characteristics rather than coalition considerations and issue ownership shape the incentives of large, mainstream parties. The fact that education is an obtrusive valence issue relevant to more or less the whole population implies that it is an issue that large, mainstream parties cannot ignore if public debates about policy problems emerge. The increased focus on education and human capital in the knowledge society has thus led to an increased focus on education. This focus has clearly been most pronounced in countries where it has materialized in a debate about the quality of primary schools. In Denmark, and later on also in Sweden, this debate came as a reaction to what was seen as disappointing PISA scores. In the UK, the PISA scores played a limited role in the debate about primary schools.

scholarly journals Predictors and impact of arts engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic: analyses of data from 19,384 adults in the COVID-19 Social Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hei Wan Mak ◽  
Meg Fluharty ◽  
Daisy Fancourt
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Social Study ◽  
Network Size ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Home Based ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Arts Engagement

Objectives. The global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 heavily affected the arts and creative industries due to the instigation of lockdown measures in the UK and closure of venues. However, it also provided new opportunities for arts and cultural engagement through virtual activities and streamed performances. Yet it remains unclear (i) who was likely to engage with the arts at home during lockdown, (ii) how this engagement differed from patterns of arts engagement prior to COVID-19, and (iii) whether home-based arts engagement was related to people’s ability to cope with their emotions during lockdown. This study was therefore designed to address these questions. Methods. We used data collected in late May from the UK COVID-19 Social Study run by University College London. Multivariate regressions were used for the analysis (N=19,384). Identified confounders included demographic factors, socio-economic position, psychosocial wellbeing and health conditions, adverse events/worries, and coping styles.Results. Four types of home-based arts engagement were identified during the COVID-19 pandemic: digital arts &amp; writing, performing arts, crafts, and reading for pleasure. Our results show that the strongest predictors of the engagement were age, education levels, social support, social network size, and trait emotion-focused or supportive coping styles. In particular, younger adults (aged 18-29), non-keyworkers, people with greater social support, and those with a trait emotion-focused coping style were more likely to have increased arts engagement during lockdown. Arts activities were used as approach and avoidance strategies to help cope with emotions, as well as to help improve self-development. Conclusions. Overall, our study suggests that some people who engaged in the arts during the COVID-19 pandemic were those who typically engage under normal circumstances. However, there were also some heterogeneity across social, cultural and economic groups when comparing normal circumstances and the pandemic. Additionally, this study highlights the value of the arts as coping tools during stressful situations.

scholarly journals Skansen tourist activity in the system of updating the resources of cultural intangible heritage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stepan Dychkovskyy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tourism Activity ◽  
Post Industrial

The purpose of the article consists of the study of the activity of skansen in the intangible cultural heritage system. The methodology is the application of historical, bibliographic, and analytical methods. The scientific novelty of the work is to justify the appropriateness and application of the new concept of tourism activity of scans in the system of intangible cultural heritage. Conclusions. Features of the development of tourism in a post-industrial society influenced the conceptual approaches to the museum topes, which first broadcast chronological meaning, but with the proliferation of skansen museums was beyond the phenomenological limits of time and space. The proliferation of scansions as interactive open-air exhibits became a reflection of changes in the cultural and socio-economic life of modern society. The trends in the development of active consumerism in the social and economic spheres, globalization processes, the growth of cultural and creative industries have identified new areas of activity for museums - skansens, which transformed from museums that showed ethnographic collections in the space of the formation of a new cultural being.

Revisionism Revisited

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Ehrke
Keyword(s):  
Economic Globalization ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
New Right ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Progressive Politics ◽  
Redistributive Policies ◽  
Old Left ◽  
Third Way Politics ◽  
Post Industrial

The “Third Way” became a synonym for progressive politics between or beyond neoliberalism (the new right) and traditional social democracy (the old left). Third Way politics responds to the transformation of the traditional industrial society into a vaguely defined post-industrial society, characterized, inter alia, by economic globalization; the increasing importance of information as an economic input and output as well as a structuring principle of economic activities; the emergence of a new underclass of unemployed or working poor; the increasing emphasis on the shareholder value; a new consensus on economic policy, emphasizing financial and monetary stability rather than economic growth; and individualization. In the European context, Third Way politics tries to enhance economic efficiency and to strengthen employment. It emphasizes that redistributive policies, typical of the traditional industrial society, are no longer sustainable and thus accepts a higher level of economic inequality. Although it offers equality of opportunity, civic participation and a new emphasis on inclusion as a substitute for “equality of outcome”, it lacks a convincing concept of social justice.

Revisiting the creative city: culture and regeneration in post-industrial Glasgow

2019 ◽  
pp. 239-256
Author(s):  
Venda Louise Pollock
Keyword(s):  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
The Real ◽  
Creative City ◽  
City Culture ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Cultural Regeneration

Responding to calls for the real, rather than rhetorical, ‘creative city’, this chapter revisits cultural regeneration in Glasgow during the post-industrial period when Glasgow was vaunted as an exemplar of how culture could reorientate the economy and identity of a city. Taking as its point of departure the typology of culture and regeneration put forward by Evans and Shaw in their comprehensive review of the evidence relating to The Contribution of Culture to Regeneration in the UK (2004): culture-led regeneration; cultural regeneration; and, culture and regeneration, it draws on specific examples to complicate these narratives and posit that a reconceptualization of the ‘creative city’ during the post-industrial era is necessary to fully understand the ‘post-creative’ city which, Malcolm Miles (2103) suggests, might arise from new alliances between art work and everyday cultures.

Modeling the Energetic and Exergetic Self-Sustainability of Societies With Different Structures

1995 ◽  
Vol 117 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Sciubba
Keyword(s):  
Technological Development ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Transient Behavior ◽  
Resource Scarcity ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Energy And Exergy ◽  
Technological Level ◽  
End Use ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Industrial Societies

The paper examines global energy and exergy flows in various models of organized human societies: from primitive tribal organizations to teocratic/aristocratic societies, to the present industrial (and post-industrial) society, to possible future highly “robotized” or “central control” social organizations. The analysis focuses on the very general chain of technological processes connected to the extraction, conversion, distribution and final use of the real energetic content of natural resources (i.e., their exergy): the biological food chain is also considered, albeit in a very simplified and “humankind” sense. It is argued that, to sustain this chain of processes, it is necessary to use a substantial portion of the final-use energy flow, and to employ a large portion of the total work force sustained by this end-use energy. It is shown that if these quantities can be related to the total exergy flow rate (from the source) and to the total available work force, then this functional relationship takes different forms in different types of society. The procedure is very general: each type of societal organization is reduced to a simple model for which energy and exergy flow diagrams are calculated, under certain well-defined assumptions, which restrain both the exchanges among the functional “groups” which constitute the model, and the exchanges with the environment. It is argued that not all societies are unconditionally self-sustained, and that certain size and technology-related restrictions apply to virtually all types of societal organizations examined here. These restrictions limit in general the distribution of the active workforce among different productive sectors; this distribution cannot be arbitrarily assigned, but depends quantitatively on the technological level of the chain of processes connected with energy extraction, transformation, distribution, and use. The results can be quantified using some assumptions/projections about energy consumption levels for different stages of technological development which are available in the literature; the procedure is applied to some models of primitive and pre-industrial societies, to the present industrial/post-industrial society, and to a hypothetical model of a future, high-technology society. No attempt has been made to study transient behavior (“evolution” or “decay” of a certain type of society), nor to relate quantitatively the steady-state case to resource conservation and environmental protection. For most of the cases examined here, neither resource scarcity nor finite biosphere capacity were considered as constraints.

Performing Arts Creative Enterprise

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Brown
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
National Council ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Professional Artists ◽  
Cultural Entrepreneurship ◽  
Training And Support

The UK government has recently established the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE) to promote entrepreneurship in higher education, across all subject disciplines. This article considers the UK government's policy initiative from the perspective of a new project supporting tutors in the performing arts sector, who are working to ‘bridge the gap’ between arts education and professional artistic practice. The article explores, in particular, fundamental issues such as: what is distinctive about cultural entrepreneurship and how can it be taught? It also discusses the role of higher education institutions in developing relationships with the creative industries sector and in developing training and support systems for aspiring professional artists.

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