The Creative Regions Summer School is an exciting week of intense learning for postgraduate students, practitioners and policy makers interested in engaging with the current debates and research surrounding the role of the creative economy in local and regional development.
Key themes that will be explored during the Summer School are as follows:
- Understanding creative people, creative work and creative skills
- Mapping and analysing the creative economy
- Innovation and entrepreneurship in the creative industries
- Creative clusters and networks
- Urban regeneration and the creative economy
- Creative class and regional economic development
- Policy perspectives: international, national, regional and local
The Creative Regions Summer School have been designed to introduce postgraduate students, practitioners and policy makers to the current academic knowledge and research in the field of creativity and local and regional economic development. It includes general introduction to the knowledge-base developed in this field, practical approaches to data analysis and interrogation as well as case study materials of local, national and international relevance.
The Creative Regions Summer School will be based on a mix of lectures, presentations, workshops and site visits. These will be delivered by both academics and practitioners. For the year 2010, the academic team will be composed of staff from our three universities, notably: Dr Caroline Chapain, Dr Roberta Comunian, Dr Nick Clifton, Prof. Peter Sunley, Dr Lauren Andres and Prof. Austin Barber. They will be complemented by contributions from representatives of other regional and national organisations. More specifically, the 2010 Summer School will include case studies from Birmingham and the West Midlands as well as visits to cultural and creative facilities. These local and regional examples will be discussed in the light of other UK and European contexts.
For more information visit WWW.CREATIVE-REGIONS.ORG.UK