Hull City of Culture

Hull is UK City of Culture this year, and Andy gave a keynote at the ‘Spaces and Flows’ conference in that city. The paper was entitled “The problem(s) of evaluation: urban cultural regeneration”, which was a salutary reminder of the positive and negative experiences of cities and culture; in particular urging policy makers and academics to explore the ‘production’ aspect of culture, and not relying on instrumental, and consumption focused policies.