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Art spaces and creative clusters in Singapore

Venue:	City, University of London Northampton Square Room A130, College Building
Date:	04-06-2019
Time:	17:00

Dr. Tarek Virani will be joining with Dr. Su Fern Hoe (Singapore Management University) and Dr. Jenny Mbaye (City, University of London) for a discussion session on creative clusters/hubs. The session will shed light on the emergence of creative placemaking as an urban cultural policy and the ensuing implications for local arts practice. Please do […]

Effective Target Market Strategy and Social Media Content Management for a Creative Entrepreneurial Company

SME partnerFrou Frou Days Research TeamDr Nima Heirati (mentor), Cara-Jayne Smithson and Charles John David Kennedy-Markham (UG students) Project DescriptionFrou Frou Days (FFD) offers bespoke decor services for private celebrations (i.e. birthday, anniversary, and wedding) as well as corporate parties and charity events. FFD s is all about spreading the joy of parties to make […]

Songs for the Prophets

See the final project video on vimeo here.

〔A survey〕Are you working in craft sector?

We have been taking part in an project, Digital Platforms for Craft in the UK and China, funded by AHRC. If you are working in craft sector or related areas, may we invite you to take part in a survey our team is currently running? The survey is available at: https://qmul.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/digital-platforms-for-craft-qmul We appreciate your time […]

A symposium and a book launch on creative economy

Thanks for lovely people who turned up last Tuesday at Stour Space with us. We had a great afternoon with a bunch of insights on creative economy. Special thanks must also send to our speakers, the British Council and the delegation from Malaysia. The symposium covered three panels. The first one was on a new […]

Love vs. Trauma. The Frontiers of Healing Childhood Trauma. A Symposium.

This might be of interest to you who joined us on creative intervention on health care in March. Love vs Trauma, a day-long symposium of talks and performances by world-class neuroscientists, psychiatrists, psychologists, public health professionals, therapists, creative artists and brave storytellers, all shining a light on childhood trauma. Book you seats here at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/love-vs-trauma-the-frontiers-of-healing-childhood-trauma-a-symposium-tickets-59754586577

Creative hubs and urban policy: A symposium on creative work and the city

Venue:	Stour Space (postcode: E3 2PA)
Date:	14-05-2019
Time:	13:00

This symposium will include three panels that will investigate this ongoing situation. The first will look at the Creative Enterprise Zone initiative, the second will look to international cases from South East Asia, and the third will look at planning law and its effect on creative hubs in the UK and elsewhere. This event also […]

We are supporting a project on digital platforms and craft

We are supporting an AHRC project, Digital Platforms for Craft in the UK and China, led by Dr Nick Bryan-Kinns, Prof. Hao Tan, Dr Zhengyu Tan and Dr Yuanyuan Liu. In this project, Network supports to identify craft hubs in the UK and suggests 6 hubs for case studies, including 2 for workshops. For further […]

We hosted a delegation visit from Egypt and Indonesia

On 20th of March, we welocmed and hosted a delegation from Egypt and Indonesia while they were on a study visit to the UK. Professor Colin Grant, the Vice-Principal (International) of QMUL, officially welcomed the delegation and the British Council who organised the study visit. We shared with the delegation works and projects Network has […]

Local creative and cultural economy intermediaries: Examining place-based workers in the creative and cultural economy

This paper is about local Creative and Cultural Economy Intermediaries (CCEIs). There is a body of work that looks at other larger organisational constructs as intermediaries, however this is not the focus of this paper. For the sake of conceptual clarity and keeping in line with examining work in the spaces and places of the […]

Dementia Connect-A report for the Dementia Connect project

This report is an evaluation of the creative voucher scheme used in the Dementia Connect (DC) project. DC was an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Follow-on Funding project which drew on core learning and collective expertise from the AHRC’s ‘Knowledge Exchange Hubs’ for the Creative Economy (2012 – 2016). The project was designed to […]

Brilliant discussion on “Creative Intervention in Dementia Care”

Thanks for those who joined us on 18th of March for “”Creative Intervention in Dementia Care” event. Huge thanks must also send to our amazing speakers. We really had a great discussion, didn’t we?

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