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Andy and Jenny contribute to the newly launched UNESCO Global Report on Culture for Sustainable Urban Development

The Global Report, “Culture: Urban Future” explores the role of culture for sustainable urban development. UNESCO officially launched it in Quito as a core contribution of the Organization to the Habitat III Conference on Habitat and Sustainable Urban Development, which gathers Heads of State, Ministers, Mayors from all around the world, actors of the international…

Lisa Adkins talks ‘Speculative Futures In The Time Of Debt’ on 2nd Nov

All are welcome to a talk by Professor Lisa Adkins on Wednesday 2nd November 2016, 5pm, AG21, College Building. It’s called ‘Speculative Futures In The Time Of Debt’ and here is a description: This paper concerns the temporality of debt. Against the claim that the society of debt has emptied out futures via the elevation…

BSA Race and Ethnicity Studies Workshop and Mentoring Scheme

Diana Yeh was a discussant during a workshop co-organised by the BSA Race and Ethnicity Study Group and the BSA Postgraduate Forum. The event brought together early career researchers with more experienced researchers within the field of race and ethnicity studies and to launch the Race and Ethnicity Study Group’s new mentoring scheme. Panel sessions,…

Inter-American Development Bank reaches out to culture

Andy was invited to Washington DC this week (Oct 4th) to speak with experts at the Inter-American Development Bank about extending their strategic investment into the cultural economy. The main event was an initiative called ‘Demand solutions’ which was a show case and celebration of creative innovation. The special networking meeting was held the next…

Welcome Dr Suzanne Burke

CCI today welcomes Dr Suzanne Burke who is on sabbatical from the University of the West Indies. At UWI she teaches on a masters programme on cultural policy, and she does research on carnival, cultural policy and on cultural clusters. Suzanne has a prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship to fund her visit to City for this academic…

Li Yuan-chia Retrospective, 4 October–25 November, 2016

Diana Yeh is curating the first Li Yuan-chia retrospective in the UK in fifteen years. Li Yuan-chia is an under-recognised artist, whose significance is currently being discovered, as a pioneer of ‘Chinese’ abstract and conceptual art, despite his translocal history. Diana has conducted several years of fieldwork on Li, tracing his life and artistic work…

‘Showcase’ Special Edition – Food & Art

Diana Yeh was interviewed by TRT World, Turkey’s English-language television broadcaster, for a special edition of Showcase, its flagship arts and culture programme, on the role of food in art. Diana discussed how artists use food as a powerful medium to engage audiences in a range of contemporary social and political concerns – from undocumented…

Andy addresses Mexican Senators

Andy Pratt gave a keynote lecture at Mexico City’s first major conference on Creative Cities (Sept 23-4). Mexico has established a Creative City Strategy called Laboratory for the City, Mexico City’s Government Experimental Office. They hosted the event, PODER HACER (a play of words meaning “the power to do / what we’re able to do”) to…

Well done Dr Toby Bennett!

Andy was very pleased to congratulate Toby Bennett on gaining his PhD today (with no corrections). Andy has been supervising Toby remotely at KCL (where he was first registered when Andy taught at KCL). Toby’s thesis was on ‘Non-cultural work in the cultural industries’ and comprised of an in depth exploration of workers in the…

Andy talks to Nordic urban planners on the creative city

CCI acted as host for the Nordic City Network for the afternoon of their study visit of London. Senior planners and architects from Nordic region cities were visiting London to understand the sharing economy and London’s Creative Businesses. It natural that they contacted CCI who has a global reputation in this field. Andy was able…