Event overview
Too late to stop now? Untangling creativity from the new corporate urbanism. A talk by Ken Worpole.
The second in the Culture Industry Now! event series, in conjunction with the MA Culture Industry, profiling key debates, practitioners and theorists in the field of the creative economy. This series assembles critical thinkers to decipher & diagnose what happens when culture is classed as an industrial sector and assimilated into economic paradigms.
In the 1980s public cultural policy was in the vanguard of urban and social renewal. Although forewarned by Sharon Zukin’s 1980s analysis of the role artists played in paving the way for property speculation in New York, in the UK the relationship between cultural enterprise and market—based urban redevelopment has also now become problematic. Is it any longer possible to untangle creativity from the wider forces of corporate development and global ‘place-making’?
Ken Worpole has writted books on architecture, landscape and public policy. He is Emeritus Professor, Cities Institute London Metropolitan University, and served on the UK government’s Urban Green Spaces Task Force, on the Expert Panel of the Heritage Lottery Fund, and as an adviser to the Commission for Architecture & the Built Environment.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 2 Mar 2016 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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