All Outputs (4)

Revelling in Policy: viral Urban Utopias (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K. (2011, November). Revelling in Policy: viral Urban Utopias. Paper presented at Spaces and Flows: An International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies, Monash University, Prato

This paper aims to map the prevailing virality of the Creative City paradigm. In so doing, it identifies a highly mobile normative mode of cultural reflexivity within a global matrix of urban cultural administration. The paper argues that this mode... Read More about Revelling in Policy: viral Urban Utopias.

Journal of Design Practice and Research Volume 1. 2011 (2011)
Journal Article
Lambert, I., MacLeod, M., Firth, R., Winton, E., Dean, M., Innes, M., …Titley, W. (2011). Journal of Design Practice and Research Volume 1. 2011. Journal of Design Practice and Research, 1, 1-40

What is design and what are designers? Good design can change lives and improve services within the public, private and third sectors. Designers are creative problem solvers who can make ideas visible and tangible, using a unique set of skills and st... Read More about Journal of Design Practice and Research Volume 1. 2011.

Internationalist Urban Imaginaries and ‘Creative’ Global Geographies (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K. (2011, June). Internationalist Urban Imaginaries and ‘Creative’ Global Geographies. Paper presented at EURA 2011 Conference: Cities without Limits, Copenhagen

Predicated on the spatial dialectic of the universal and the local, the internationalist paradigm of the twentieth century implicated designers in communicating the materiality of national culture as a symbol of industrial power through the euro-atla... Read More about Internationalist Urban Imaginaries and ‘Creative’ Global Geographies.

Mobile Techno-cosmopolitanism: Between Cultural and Administrative Imaginaries (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K. (2011, June). Mobile Techno-cosmopolitanism: Between Cultural and Administrative Imaginaries. Paper presented at EURA 2011 Conference: Cities without Limits, Copenhagen

Despite the economic downturn, the highly mobile pseudo-policy first produced by Comedia, the European City of Culture and The Creative City paradigm continues to recast the city as a destination of cultural capital. From Glasgow to Istanbul urban s... Read More about Mobile Techno-cosmopolitanism: Between Cultural and Administrative Imaginaries.