CCCI@City

Jenny advises on the pilot programme of Arterial Network’s African Creative Cities in Harare (Zimbabwe)

On May 1st-5th, on the margin of the Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA), Arterial Network’s pilot programme (2016-2018) on African Creative Cities was launched in Harare (Zimbabwe). On May 1st, acting as the scientific adviser for the programme, Jenny was invited to lead a preliminary meeting workshop with the team of Harare Creative…

Work in cities

Janet presented a paper at a conference at the University of Portsmouth (20 April) organised by Carol Ekinsmyth on how the nature and location of work in cities is changing. Janet gave a paper to the international audience on ‘The role of co-working hosts in co-working spaces: Examples for Berlin, Paris and London. Andy spoke…

Music Cities Convention Berlin 2017: Janet took part in a panel debate

Last week, Janet was invited to participate in the fourth edition of Music Cities Convention which took place in Berlin on April 4, 2017, and explored music and urban development in international cities. Her panel brought together Dr. Lee Dong Yeoun ( Master Planner of the K-Pop Arena Construction and the Platform Changdong61 by Seoul…

Conversations and voices

Andy has been disseminating his work via journalistic outlets. Today he has a piece in The Conversation on ‘cultural appropriation’. Andy wrote another piece on recession and the growth of the cultural economy in January this seems to have been getting a fair number of reads. In connection with a big conference that the British Council…

Andy in Aarhus: European Capital of Culture

Andy visited the current European Capital of Culture (Aarhus, Denmark) last week; further material to insert in the modules that Andy teaches on Creative Cities. He was fortunate to experience great weather, the high points were the visit to ARos the contemporary art museum with the spectacular ‘spectrum halo’ on the top of the building…

Kate’s publication inspires

Well done Dr Kate Mattocks, who gained her PhD late last year, and is now Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Politics & International Relations, Department of History and Politics at Liverpool Hope University. Somehow she has managed to find time to write a paper – based on her thesis -which has just been published in European Politics & Society.http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/F5uemG8t9SbwDzuSqPUz/full The…

Joy White talks grime and entrepreneurship

CCI and Sociology were very happy to host Dr Joy White today, who came in to talk about on her research on grime music and youth cultures. Joy’s five-year ethnographic study of grime for her PhD led to her book Urban Music and Entrepreneurship: Beats, Rhymes and Young People’s Enterprise, recently published by Routledge. Joy…

BA CCI student success in Mayor’s entrepreneur competition

Following a ‘Dragon’s Den’ style pitching event at City Hall, Alborz Bozorgi (Cultural and Creative Industries, 2017) and Ellenor McIntosh (short course – Business Administration, 2016) were announced the winners. They were presented with the prize by Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. Their innovation ‘Twipes’ has won the first prize of £20,000 at the 2017…

Students visit the Museum of Brands

Ros took a group of third years to the Museum of Brands this week, where we enjoyed a workshop on gender and advertising. Below two groups of students are redesigning the branding for Persil and Johnny Walker along much more inclusive and progressive lines. Potential brilliant future copyeditors are (Lto R) Nha, Dimitris, Nina, Anne,…

Ros Gill: thinking aloud/allowed

Ros was on Thinking Allowed this week, talking with Laurie Taylor about her co-edited collection Aesthetic Labour: Rethinking Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism. Rachel Wood, a contributor to the volume, also took part discussing her research on how sex and relationship advice is changing. The BBC’s podcast is available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08k34n6