Cultural Intermediation

and the creative urban economy

Cultivating Culture Symposium

Dr Phil Jones, University of Birmingham @philjonesgeog18 March 2014

Universities are about learning not lecturing

Gini coefficient

Type SectorsCultural promotion and preservation

Museums, galleries and archives; exhibitions and festivals

Creative activities Music, visual, literary and graphic art

Creative communication Film, TV, radio, new media, social networking

Creative interfaces Creative interactions with business, intellectual property

Creative Economy to the rescue?

Who are the intermediaries?

How do people experience culture in their neighbourhood?

Hard to reach communities or hard to reach culture?

Co-Commission projects that engage communities

with creative economy

Permission to fail

How are things done?What works?What does failure tell us?

Find new ways to value and evaluate

Contact

Dr Phil Jonesp.i.jones@bham.ac.uk

@philjonesgeog

Dr Saskia Warrens.warren@bham.ac.uk

@cultintermed

culturalintermediation.org.uk