Creative Citizens: The Conference
18-19 September 2014
Who are today’s creative citizens? What do they do? How are they changing communities? Come and debate new research at the first ever Creative Citizens Conference.
If you are interested in planning, participatory media, co-creativity and co-design, DIY creative activism, the civic potential of digital, or the potential for creativity in community development you should be at an event that brings together some of the leading critical voices and analysis from around the world.
Panels will look at peer-to-peer creative activism, creative local networking around environmental issues, hyperlocal publishing, migrant and youth media. Social media have redrawn the map for community media, art and design. This explosion of local / global communication networks raises urgent new questions about how we understand the value of creative mediation and motivate more of it.
Keynote speeches from international perspectives include:
• Paola Antonelli, New York’s Museum of Modern Art
• Jean Burgess, Queensland University of Technology
• John Hartley, Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
• Geoff Mulgan, Chief Executive of Nesta
As part of the London Design Festival, the conference will also host its own lively exhibition of works made by and with our community partners. There will be plenty of opportunities to network and meet other creative citizens, including a drinks reception and a ‘live lounge’ to meet speakers and continue the debate.
This promises to be a field-defining event, establishing new policy frameworks and new research directions.
Booking: http://creativecitizens.co.uk/conference/
Tickets are available for both days or either day, with reduced reductions for PhD students and community partners. We welcome participation from researchers, activists and community organisations. We also have reduced rate accommodation at a nearby hotel.
Venue: Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU
Further information about the conference and a full list of speakers: http://creativecitizens.co.uk/conference/
----------
Katerina Alexiou
Lecturer in Design
Design Group, Engineering and Innovation
The Open University
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
email: [log in to unmask]
web: http://www9.open.ac.uk/mct/people/katerina.alexiou
Check the Creative Citizens sticky world: https://cc.stickyworld.com/home
Media, Community and the Creative Citizen: http://creativecitizens.co.uk
Scaling up Co-design Research and Practice: http://www.scalingup-codesign.weebly.com
Valuing Community-Led Design: http://www.valuing-community-led-design.weebly.com
-----------------------------------------------------------------
PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]>
Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design
Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|