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Media, Community and the Creative Citizen. Dave Harte – Birmingham City University Dr Emma Agusita – University of West of England http://creativecitizens.co.uk/ @crtvcitizens. Central Research Question:.
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Media, Community and the Creative Citizen Dave Harte – Birmingham City University Dr Emma Agusita – University of West of England http://creativecitizens.co.uk/ @crtvcitizens
Central Research Question: How does creative citizenship generate value for communities within a changing media landscape and how can this pursuit of value be intensified, propagated and sustained?
Our hypothesis • Substantial unmeasured and untapped resource among communities of creative citizens. • Web 2.0 technology offers the potential to increase the impact and sustainability of these communities. • Better knowledge = better policy design + more inspiring examples = more value
Hyperlocal publishing Cardiff University Birmingham City University Creative Communities University of Birmingham UWE Community-led design Open University Royal College of Art (Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design) Ian Hargreaves Cardiff University Management
Case 1: Hyperlocal publishing With Talk About Local and Ofcom
Case 2: Community-led design With The Glass-House Community Led Design and Nesta’s Public Service Lab
Case 3: Creative Communities With The Moseley Exchange, South Blessed and Knowle West Media Centre
What are the key innovative and exciting elements of this project? • To evaluate the wider significance of communities of creative citizens, offering new insights and tools to communities, policy-makers, investors, business partners and social entrepreneurs. • By grounding this work in three very different case studies, to demonstrate its breadth of applicability. • A reference point in understanding the evolution of the UK creative economy in the digital age: The Creative Citizen Unbound: a landmark book for 2014/15.
How will this help build vibrant and prosperous communities in the UK? • Our TAXONOMY OF THE CREATIVE CITIZEN will inspire and educate • Demonstrating the social, economic and cultural potential of creative citizenship will engage policy-makers, partners and investors. This will result in better POLICY AND INVESTMENT DECISIONS. • Our work will inform better REGULATORY DECISIONS with regard to e.g. planning, intellectual property and public service media, based on stronger evidence of the value of investment in creativity. • NEW TOOLS: our project will help stimulate knowledge exchange and co-creation of practical tools for high ambition creative citizenship.
CREATIVE NETWORKS – THE PLACE OF EVERYDAY CREATIVITY Seeking insights into the scale, ambition and potential of everyday or ‘vernacular’ creative practices in relation to more formal creative production.
“POLITICS of ENGAGEMENT” • - Discourse of co-creation: with/on • - Expectancy and direction: the research relationship • - Navigating relational spaces http://southblessed.co.uk/ Emma3.agusita@uwe.ac.uk
creativecitizens.co.uk Dave Harte – Birmingham City University Dr Emma Agusita – University of West of England http://creativecitizens.co.uk/ @crtvcitizens