Thanks everyone for coming out for a successful and engaging discussion at A Foundation. We got some really great feedback and are working on a next event in the fall on 'open source'. So please keep an eye out for the next one or get in touch if you would like to find out more about what we are working on. We are working hard over the summer in developing the project in different ways and are looking for collaborators who are interested to help work on events and a publication. A video of the 'Re-imagining Culture' event will be online shortly. We will have more updates for you soon.

Invited guest speakers:
Chair: Abbas Nokhasteh (director, Openvizor)
John Kieffer (editor of 'After the Crunch', creative director of Sound and Music)
William Wong (Clore Leadership Fellow, cultural consultant)
Sonya Dyer (artist, writer and co-ordinator of the Chelsea Programe, Chelsea College of Art&Design)

C&binet was created by the UK Government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport in October 2008 to foster international dialogue over the creative economy and the 'Creative Britain' strategy paper published February 2008 by Department for Culture Media and Sport, (DCMS) jointly with the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) and the Department for Innovation and Skills (DIUS).

Creative Britain’ contains 26 commitments designed to put culture and creativity at the centre of our national life and bring the creative industries into the mainstream of the UK economy.

The first main c&binet event took place on 26-28 October 2009 at The Grove in Hertfordshire and is currently watchable online. The conference brings together learning creative industry government officials and industry executives to discuss 'World Creative Business' and the emerging creative economy.

C&binet:
http://www.cabinetforum.org

Creative Britain: New Talents for the New Economy: http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/publications/3572.aspx/

Creating Cities: Culture, Space, and Sustainability - The City, Culture, and Society (CCS) Conference

25-26 February, 2010
IBZ Munich, Amalienstraße 38, D-80799 Munich / Germany

The conference Creating Cities: Culture, Space and Sustainability, investigates the forces that shape the conditions of urban development and the creation of cities in comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. In recent years, the notion of the "creative city“ has become a guiding framework for thinking about the present and future state of cities and their capability of coping with the impact and challenges of globalization. Cities are regarded as engines of regional, national, and global economic growth because they are the key centers for cultural production and consumption and target areas for mobility and migration. They are also contested sites because of increasing cultural and social diversity. Simultaneously, cities use cultural diversity and even counter-cultures to display appealing images and representations of creativity and innovation. Many citizens aspire to live and work in the cosmopolitan global environments that only metropolitan centers seem to be able to provide, but cities also provide vital space for the challenged, homeless, and other socially disadvantaged groups. The resolution of social disparities is consequently becoming an urgent policy task. Environmental and social sustainability, urban revitalization and amenity are major keywords of our time.

In this context, this conference focuses on the interactions among culture, sustainability, and space. We would like to emphasize inquiry into the dynamics of cultural creativity, industries and production, the risks and benefits of both cultural diversity and social inclusion or exclusion, the sustainability of efforts to plan and redesign the urban built environment to promote creativity, and the identity politics of representations of the city and creativity in the popular imagination as well as spaces of heritage and tourism. We recognize that there are many different groups and focal points related to creating cities, so one major purpose of this conference is to create a framework in which both practitioners and researchers of different disciplines can interact and share ideas about how urban environments are being transformed.

http://www.japan.uni-muenchen.de/veranstaltungen/index.html

MA thesis by Jay Corless on How British Creative Industry is Changing the World on a global, national and regional level.

http://theideafeed.com/creative_economy/

This site is under construction. So please bare with us as we comb out the kinks. Keep an eye out for news and updates.

Much care & thanks.

- DOXA

DOXA's first project initiative: Creative Space (see projects) is launching 2010.

This year we will host powwows, form projects and collaborations to work towards a publication and workshop event.

More details coming soon.

Open for Contribution /

If you have any artworks, films, papers, articles, research, project ideas related to Creative Space, we would love to hear them. We are interested in case studies from around the world as well as critical texts and art projects that provide possible sites for analysis and example.

email us at: info(a)doxacollective.org

Columbia College Chicago presents Claiming Creativity:
April 21-24, 2010
Chicago, USA

Claiming Creativity seeks to re-position creativity as a driver not only for our economies, but also for art making, for transformational processes, and for social and cultural development and change. The working assumption is that the vitality of our common future is linked tightly to creative practice in many forms. This symposium will place artists, designers, architects and other active "creators," and those who teach in the creative disciplines squarely at the center of these important conversations along with leaders in industry and commerce who share an interest in the life of the imagination and its value to society.

Claiming Creativity keynote speakers include Sarat Maharaj (UK), Dany Jacobs (Netherlands), and Amina J. Dickerson (USA). Their vast cultural knowledge and influence will undoubtedly afford symposium attendees new perspectives on "Claiming Creativity" and "the life of imagination and its value to society."

For details about the symposium, registration, and the keynote speakers, please visit: http://claimingcreativity.com