Meeting of Working Groups and Workshop, Pavia, 21-23 March, 2016
December 12, 2015 | By Vicky Reid |
A meeting of Working Groups was held in Pavia, near Milan, Italy on 21-22nd March, 2016, hosted by the University of Pavia. Read More
December 12, 2015 | By Vicky Reid |
A meeting of Working Groups was held in Pavia, near Milan, Italy on 21-22nd March, 2016, hosted by the University of Pavia. Read More
October 12, 2015 | By Vicky Reid |
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: CREATIVE HUBS IN QUESTION
Dr Tarek Virani and Professor Rosalind Gill are putting together a book proposal for an edited volume about ‘creative hubs’, developing out of our research as part of AHRC’s Creativeworks London http://www.creativeworkslondon.org.uk/research/place-work-knowledge/
The term ‘hub’ seems to be everywhere. Starting in and around 2003, the growth and proliferation of these types of largely urban industrial agglomeration has been exponential. From San Francisco to London to Moscow to Durban to Hanoi to Shanghai, creative hubs are on the increase. But the academic work on creative hubs is surprisingly scarce. Although the term is currently in wide use in policy circles its actual meaning is not always clear. The term has no commonly accepted definition and has been criticised for lacking clarity as well as being ‘all encompassing’. Hubs have been understood as co-working spaces, studios, incubators, accelerators, districts, quarters, zones and/or a mix of all of the above. The lack of clarity – let alone consensus – is especially troubling given that policymakers, research councils, consultants, and governments have been so quick to promote and endorse the effectiveness of creative hubs in catalysing growth and innovation in local creative economies, as well as producing urban regeneration.
We are looking for expressions of interest and abstracts for a book that will look critically at the idea of ‘creative hubs’ from interdisciplinary perspectives including Sociology, Geography, Media and Communications, Culture and Creative Industries, Critical Policy studies, Gender studies, Race and Ethnicity, and Urban Studies. Contributions may be empirical studies of actual hubs, or may be theoretical reflections on the concept of creative hubs. We are interested in what ‘creative hubs’ as a notion does performatively/ideologically in particular (global/local) policy contexts; we are interested in where ‘hubs’ are situated in relation to existing ideas such as ‘clusters’ or ‘co-working spaces’; we are interested in critically examining how hubs may intervene in geographies of inequality, austerity and injustice; we are interested to explore how the concept of creative hubs travels and materialises in different contexts, and in exploring how ‘creative hubs’ may relate to ‘knowledge hubs’ or ‘innovation spaces’ – either as an idea or in concrete locations. Above all we hope the volume will start a critical conversation that interrogates the taken-for-grantedness of ‘creative hubs’.
We have approached Palgrave who have expressed interest in considering such a volume. If you are interested in contributing, please send an abstract to Rosalind.Gill.2@city.ac.uk by November 13th 2015. If accepted, final drafts of chapters will be needed by November 2016.
Rosalind Gill
Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis
Room D610
School of Arts and Social Sciences
City University London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
May 14, 2015 | By Vicky Reid |
The 6th Meeting of Working Groups took place at Pärnu College, University of Tartu, Estonia from 16th-18th September, 2015.
November 14, 2014 | By Ursula Huws |
A workshop on Ambient Play: Digital creativity, play and labour in everyday life was held in collaboration with the Digital Ethnography Research Centre of RMIT University in Barcelona, Spain on June 20-21, 2015
October 15, 2014 | By Ursula Huws |
The global digital Workplace – New Ways of Working, New Forms of Labour, a training school for PhD students and Early Stage Researchers was hosted by the Department of Sociology at the University of Vienna, July 6-10, 2015
September 24, 2014 | By Ursula Huws |
A meeting of all four Working Groups took place at the Escola Superior de Turismo e Technologia do Mar (ESTM) in the seaside town of Peniche in Portugal.
September 11, 2014 | By Ursula Huws |
The Dynamics of Virtual Work: the Transformation of Labour in a Digital Global Economy
This conference took place at the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield, UK on September 3-5, 2014.
February 13, 2014 | By Ursula Huws |
A workshop on Gender Perspectives in the Analysis of Virtual Work was held at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute in Barcelona, Spain on 10-12 November, 2014.
November 11, 2013 | By Ursula Huws |
The third meeting of Working Groups was hosted by the University of Bucharest in Romania, March 26-28, 2014 Read More
June 18, 2013 | By Ursula Huws |
A major international conference will be held at the University of Hertfordshire, in Hatfield, near London, UK entitled ‘The Dynamics of Virtual Work: the Transformation of Labour in a Digital Global Economy’
