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Theme : culture
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Overcoming Cultural Inertia
Last week, I spoke at the Edinburgh International of Politics at an event which asked '"What Does the New Europe Mean For Artists and Cultural Policy Makers?".
The debate focused on the relationship between cultural practice and engagement and identity in an interconnected world.
I've copied the text into this blogpost.
from : samjones
26th August 2008
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Protecting the Lord Protector
We're currently doing some work on heritage conservation and the importance of caring for the material world.Two of the core themes will be the symbolic importance of conservation, and the opportunities for engageing people in caring for different heritage and cultural forms and the implications that has for identity.With this in mind, it was interesting to see the work currently being done to clean and restore the statue of Oliver Cromwell on Cromwell Green in front of the Houses of...
from : samjones
20th August 2008
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FT.com / Media & internet - TV viewing figures defy talk of decline
FT.com / Media & internet - TV viewing figures defy talk of decline
from : petebradwell
13th August 2008
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The Cultural Age - Integration and Cohesion
Earlier this week, we held the second of our two seminars on The Cultural Age.It focused on integration and cohesion. One of the most interesting things to emerge was that much is going on in the cultural sector, policy-making and academic research but, often, each is unaware of what is going on in the other. At the very least, some of those ends could be tied up in conversations between participants of Monday's session. Another area of debate was long-term change. ...
from : samjones
27th June 2008
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Cultural and Artistic Practice and Democratic Participation
Last week, I spoke at the launch of Peckham Space, a project run by Camberwell College of Arts that looks at the role or participation in contemporary art.The speech covered a range of topics, in particular that of creative and artistitc production as a democratic space and its potential in relation to politics. You can read a text of the speech, here ... and a podcast of the event will follow soon.
from : samjones
27th June 2008
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Social Capital and the Material World
Last week, I spoke at a summit on Conservation Education convened by the Textile Conservation Centre. I presented the interim thinking from our project, Saved for the Nation.I've put the speech and the presentation I gave on the website. They outline one of the ideas we are developing in the project, which is about the symbolism of caring for the material world, and what it means in relation to wider agenda, from identity and communities, to building cultural literacy.
from : samjones
20th June 2008
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Contemporary Art and Social Change
A couple of months ago, I wrote a review of Provoking Democracy, a book about the role of artisitc production in a democracy.We'll be revisiting this, and other topics, when we speak at the launch of Peckham Space in a couple of weeks. It's a project run by Camberwell College of Arts and promotes participation in contemporary art as a means of social expression.It's at 7.30 pm at Camberwell School of Art ... you can find out more details here and here
from : samjones
9th June 2008
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Thinking outside the box
If women are excelling in the arts, why - as culture minister Margaret Hodge claims - are so few taking the top jobs?
from : samjones
9th June 2008
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The Cultural Age
Last week, we hosted the first of our Cultural Age Seminars. It addressed education for the cultural age. We've put a transcript of the opening speech on the website - it's available for download here.The next seminar will be held on 23rd June and will address Integration and Cohesion in the Cultural Age. Speakers include Rushanara Ali Associate Director of the Young Foundation, Kim Knott - Head of the AHRC Diaspras, Migration and Identites Programme and Moira Sinclair -...
from : samjones
9th June 2008
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Culture and learning urgent news
We experienced severe problems with our emails around the deadline for responses to the cultural learning paper on April 30th. If you sent a response then, you will probably have received a message saying that your email could not be delivered.
Responses that did not get through can still be sent to
cultural_learning@demos.co.uk; or to
rachel@cloreduffield.org.uk
With many apologies for this inconvenience.
from : johnholden
28th April 2008
