Cultural Policy, Innovation and the Creative Economy

Morag Shiach is Professor of Cultural history at Queen Mary University of London, UK, where she is also Director of Creativeworks London and Vice-Principal for Humanities and Social Sciences. Her publications include Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture; Feminism and Cultural Studies; Hélène Cixous: A Politics of Writing; and Discourse on Popular Culture. Tarek Virani obtained his PhD from King’s College London, UK. He is a full time researcher for Creativeworks London research project at Queen Mary University of London, UK. His research interests include the role of knowledge in the cultural economy, artistic knowledge within locally bounded artistic communities, and new work spaces in the creative and cultural economy.

• Chapter 1. Introduction; Morag Shiach and Tarek E. Virani.- Chapter 2. Cultural Policy, Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange; Morag Shiach and Tarek E. Virani.- Chapter 3. Bringing the Past into the Present: Mobilising Historical Research through Creative and Digital Collaboration; John Price.- Chapter 4. Creating Archival Value in a Changing Mediascape: The “World in a Cube” Project; Ian Christie with Wendy Earle, Eleni Liarou, Karen Merkel, Akim Mogaji.- Chapter 5. Consumer As Producer; Value Mechanics in Digital Transformation Design Process, Practice and Outcomes; Karen Cham.- Chapter 6. Goldsmiths Digital: Research and Innovation in the Creative Economy; Mick Grierson.- Chapter 7. Getting Inside the Creative Voucher: The Platform 7 Experience; Andy Pratt and John McKiernan.- Chapter 8. Devising Bespoke Art and Design Interventions for a Dialysis Community; Rachel Louis and Luise Vormittag.- Chapter 9. The BeatWoven Project; Noam Shemtov.- Chapter 10. At Home with Collaboration: Building and Sustaining a Successful University–Museum Partnerships; Alastair Owens, Eleanor John and Alison Blunt.- Chapter 11. Connections—Movements—Treasures: Unlocking the Potential of the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive; Emma Sandon and June Givanni.- Chapter 12. Process as Outcome: Research across Borders; Caspar Melville.- Chapter 13. Social Art Map: Reflections on a Creative Collaboration; Emily Druiff and Sophie Hope.- Chapter 14. Making Friends: Childhood, the Cultural Economy and Creative Collaboration through Technology; Tessa Whitehouse and Emilie Giles.- Chapter 15. Outside the Voucher: Evaluating the Creative Voucher Scheme; Andy Pratt, Helen Matheson-Pollock, and Tarek E. Virani.- Chapter 16. Creative Collaborations: The Role of Networks, Power and Policy; Roberta Comunian.