[csaa-forum] Submission to CSAA forum list: Susan Luckman, public lecture at University of Melbourne

Rimi Khan rpkhan at unimelb.edu.au
Mon May 20 10:25:01 ACST 2019


Please join us for a public lecture by Professor Susan Luckman on Craft Entrepreneurialism and Sustainable Scale: Resistance to and disavowal of the creative industries as champions of capitalist growth.


The lecture will take place at University of Melbourne, Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Sidney Myer Asia Centre on Thursday 6 June, 5pm-6.30pm.


Craft and design-led creative practices are presently enjoying a zeitgeist moment of popularity, driven by consumer demand for unique, innovative and/or handmade objects. However despite the capacity to scale-up, craftspeople and designer makers continue to challenge conventional capitalist ideas of what entrepreneurial ‘success’ looks like. Drawing upon data from a 4 year study of Australian designer makers, this article problematizes the growth and enterprise discourses at the heart of governmental desires for the creative economy. It examines how the complex intersectionality of old understandings of artistic value and ‘doing what you love’, today mingle with ethical consumption values, climate crisis awareness, non-urban creative practice, the gendered exclusions of the creative workforce, and human desires for ‘good work’ (Hesmondhalgh and Baker 2011), to present a more complex, socially embedded and potentially culturally transformative picture of the contemporary creative economy. One where the more than-capitalism values of the arts and cultural industries persist.


Susan Luckman is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries in the School of Creative Industries and Research Director of the Creative Work Mobilities Research Node, Hawke EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. She is an interdisciplinary cultural studies scholar whose work is concerned with the intersections of creativity, place and technology. Her research explores these relationships in relation to work in the cultural and creative industries, digital media, and grassroots innovation, Susan is the author of Craft and the Creative Economy (Palgrave Macmillan 2015), Locating Cultural Work: The Politics and Poetics of Rural, Regional and Remote Creativity (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), coeditor of The ‘New Normal’ of Working Lives: Critical Studies in Contemporary Work and Employment (Dynamics of Virtual Work Series, Palgrave 2018), Craft Economies (Bloomsbury 2018), and Craft Communities (Bloomsbury 2018).


This public lecture is hosted by the Critical Fashion Studies Collective at the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne.


Enquiries: Professor Natalya Lusty natalya.lusty at unimelb.edu.au


Bookings are essential for this free public lecture. http:// alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/ luckman



Dr Rimi Khan
Senior Research Fellow
Melbourne Social Equity Institute | School of Culture and Communication
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