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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>Placing Cultural Work: (New) Intersections of Location, Craft and Creativity<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>One–day symposium @</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>The Open University, Hawley Crescent, Camden Campus, London, NW1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>Friday November 15, 2013 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>9.00am-4.30pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>Organisers: Mark Banks (The Open University) and Susan Luckman (University of South Australia)</span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>The awareness of place is central to the creative practice of <b>artistic, creative and cultural industry workers</b>, providing a profound practical, affective and emotive link between their lives and their work. Thus in spite of tendencies towards globalisation and digitalisation, it is essential that thinking about cultural work continues to attend to the affordances of place as an important part of the ‘soft infrastructure’ enabling creativity to happen for many cultural workers. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>Related to place, the durable significance – even renaissance - of <b>craft labour and community production</b> remains a prominent feature of cultural work and economy. Debates over craft – as practice, politics and industrial sector – have become more vocal in recent years given the apparent rise of craft as ‘creative industry’, plus emerging alternative and specialist forms of cultural production, DIY and amateur networks, and maker communities. What is the status and meaning of craft production at this current moment? <b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>This one-day symposium invites social scientists and industry experts to consider the relationships between place, relations of craft, as well as small-scale local, community and ‘boutique’ cultural production. It asks; how does place facilitate or hinder these kinds of cultural work; how do the local and the global come together in the practices of those cultural workers physically working from home, but networking and distributing online? Finally, what are the hidden, untapped, unvalued places and politics of community production and cultural work, and how could we - or even should we - nurture and protect them?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>Speakers:</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>Daniel Allington (The Open University)</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center'><i><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>‘Lots of rats and broken windows and oil on the floor: bohemian nostalgia and the conflicted “regeneration” of Hackney Wick’</span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>Julia Bennett (Crafts Council) & Julie Brown (Leeds University)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center'><i><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif";color:black'>What does local mean in the context of craft? Research and policy perspectives’</span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>Ruth Bridgstock (Queensland University of Technology)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center'><i><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>‘Creative career pathways, places and portfolios: Tracing the experiences of Australian cultural production graduates’ <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>Robert Hollands (Newcastle University)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center'><i><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif";color:black'>‘Place, Creativity, and the Arts: A Case Study of the Newcastle-based Amber Collective’</span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>Marjana Johansson (Essex University)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center'><i><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>‘Experiential co-creation in the context of the ‘boutique’ festival’</span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>Susan Luckman (University of South Australia)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center'><i>‘</i><i><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>Craft Workers Being At Work, At Home: Representing Labour, Home and Family on the Etsy Shopfront’</span></i><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>Nicola Thomas (Exeter University)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center'><i><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>'Wandering into the realms of geography and craftsmanship': exploring the spatial politics of craft practice, connections and livelihoods’ <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>Stephanie Taylor (The Open University)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center'><i><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif";color:black'>‘Connection and avoidance: the creative potentials of place’</span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>Registration:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'> This is a <b>free event</b> and lunch, tea and coffee are provided. However, <u>places are limited and you must register to attend</u>. To reserve your place please email Karen Ho at </span><a href="mailto:CRESC-OU-events@open.ac.uk"><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>CRESC-OU-events@open.ac.uk</span></a><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'> providing your name and organisation/affiliation. 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