The aim of this event is to explore and develop critical insights into the various ways we ‘plan’ for culture and newness/cultural innovations. We want to take the phenomena of the ‘creative hub’ as a live policy object and interrogate it. Moreover, we want to consider who and in what roles art education can reinforce or extend it roles beyond practical and theoretical expertise. In short we consider a more subtle and more profound ‘impact’ agenda for the arts.
We are all familiar with pronouncements by politicians and institutional directors that a site or institution is designated a ‘creative hub’: what is the burden of expectation, is it appropriate? What and how does sustain a creative hub, and can one be created anew? This exploratory event will offer new and critical perspectives on these questions.
The event is initiated and organized by Central Saint Martins and Zurich University of the Arts. It is curated by Dr Janet Merkel, Dr Tarek Virani and Prof Andy Pratt (City University, and Creative Works London).
INITIATORS
Mark Dunhill, Dean of Academic Programmes, Central Saint Martins
Christoph Weckerle, Director Department of Cultural Analysis, Zurich University of the Arts
SCHEDULE
09.30–10.00 Framing the day
10.00–11.00 Session 1: What is knowledge and how is it filtered?
11.00–12.00 Session 2: Work & Place
12.00–12.30 Panel: Pulling together threads so far
12.30–13.30 Networking lunch
13.30–14.00 Session 3: What is a hub, cluster, network, and why it matters?
14.00–14.30 Session 4: Panel on governing and managing hubs/KE
14.30–15.30 Session 5: Wider contexts – cluster, network, local-global hub
15.30–16.30 Session 6: What roles can, and should, art higher education play in these processes?