Mission, Models, Money (MMM) invited to take up residence at Goldsmiths new Institute for Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship
From December 2008, MMM will be working from a new base at Goldsmiths, University of London as part of their innovative new Institute for Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship (ICCE).
ICCE is Goldsmiths’ response to the growing significance of the creative industries and cultural sector in the UK’s economy. Goldsmiths’ reputation as a leading provider of creative education, and its longstanding engagement with cultural practice and analysis, make it the ideal home for the Mission, Models, Money programme whose vision is to is to transform the way the arts use their resources to support the creation and experience of great art in the 21st century.
Professor Geoffrey Crossick, Warden of Goldsmiths said
“Goldsmiths has demonstrated its strengths at the cutting edge of the creative industries. Its teaching programmes and research engage with some of the leading areas of the sector. Its research and knowledge transfer activities are of increasing importance in a fast-growing creative economy where new knowledge and its transmission is fundamental to key elements in the value chain. Direct engagement with initiatives such as MMM which seeks to advance new approaches and new solutions to organisational and financial sustainability in the not for profit arts and cultural sector ensure that ICCE’s courses and other activities address the priorities and needs of the growing creative and cultural sector itself.”
Clare Cooper and Roanne Dods, Co-Founders and Co-Directors of MMM said:
“Engagement with the creative industries and the not-for-profit cultural sector has long existed across many of Goldsmiths’ academic departments and research centres. What makes ICCE different is its interdisciplinarity. Artistic creativity increasingly blurs the old boundaries of subject disciplines, such as music, drama, dance, fine art, design, communications, media and technology. ICCE serves as an area for experimentation, where all of these disciplines can come together to learn from each other and to develop new creative alliances. Growing our ideas within the disciplined environment of one of the worlds leading academic institutions yet nourished by the experimental ethos of ICCE could not be more propitious.”
For further information contact:
Clare Cooper
clare.cooper@deft.org.uk
From December 2008, MMM’s address will be:
c/o Institute for Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship (ICCE)
Goldsmiths, University of London,
Lewisham Way,
New Cross,
London
SE14 6NW