Dr Kirstie Jamieson's Outputs (32)

Theorizing the Affective Registers of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K., & McCleery, A. (2017, April). Theorizing the Affective Registers of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland. Paper presented at Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston

In history, the desire for form is expressed in formulation (White 1980) where re-makings of the past reveal both the politics of production and the shifting technologies of narrating. In an effort to understand this process of formulation we theori... Read More about Theorizing the Affective Registers of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland.

Public Art: Spaces as Sites of living together: Edinburgh’s Botanic Lights (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K. (2017, April). Public Art: Spaces as Sites of living together: Edinburgh’s Botanic Lights. Paper presented at Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston

Edinburgh boasts an identity reliant upon the curation of ambient festival space and cosmopolitan public life that announces the arrival of a self-consciously international urban mood. The city’s longstanding ‘reflexive accumulation’ (Lash and Urry... Read More about Public Art: Spaces as Sites of living together: Edinburgh’s Botanic Lights.

Composing Festival Timescapes (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K. (2016, April). Composing Festival Timescapes. Paper presented at Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston

Composing Festival Timescapes is as the title suggests, a way of approaching the city as a space of composition. The paper develops the subject of urban atmosphere and affective urban planning through an analysis of two discourses that mine the tempo... Read More about Composing Festival Timescapes.

Playfully Public: Edinburgh Botanical Gardens as Utopian Spectacle and Neoliberal Project (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K. (2015, June). Playfully Public: Edinburgh Botanical Gardens as Utopian Spectacle and Neoliberal Project. Paper presented at Conference of European Association of Social Anthropologists, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Edinburgh exists as the pre-eminent city of ambient festival space boasting as it does a calendar of conspicuous cosmopolitan public life that announces the arrival of a self-consciously international urban mood. The city's longstanding 'reflexive ac... Read More about Playfully Public: Edinburgh Botanical Gardens as Utopian Spectacle and Neoliberal Project.

Journal of Design Practice and Research, Volume 3, 2014 (2014)
Book
Lambert, I., Firth, R., MacLeod, M., Forster, S., Innes, M., Winton, E., Cochrane, R., Macdonald, I., Andrews, C., Malcolm, C., Kerlaff, P., O'Dowd, A., Jamieson, K., & Titley, W. (2014). Journal of Design Practice and Research, Volume 3, 2014. Edinburgh Napier University

Editorial -Welcome to the third issue of the Journal for Design Practice & Research.
The last 18 months has been an extremely busy time for us. We have continued to grow as a team, with new members joining, and our work grows ever more diverse. We h... Read More about Journal of Design Practice and Research, Volume 3, 2014.

Tracing festival imaginaries: Between affective urban idioms and administrative assemblages (2013)
Journal Article
Jamieson, K. (2014). Tracing festival imaginaries: Between affective urban idioms and administrative assemblages. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 17(3), 293-303. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877913487550

This article offers a way of understanding not only Festival Cities, but also the Creative City paradigm and to some extent the practices employed through the convergence of culture and urban planning that has come to dominate the logic of urban spac... Read More about Tracing festival imaginaries: Between affective urban idioms and administrative assemblages.

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., Jamieson, K., Macdonald, I., & 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.

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.

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.

Designing Unesco Culture: Internationalism and the Global Imagination (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K. (2010, June). Designing Unesco Culture: Internationalism and the Global Imagination. Paper presented at 8th Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference (Association of Cultural Studies), Hong Kong

Amidst the rise of sensory rather than creative discourses that seek to categorise and re-evaluate cultural encounters with and within the city, it is timely to explore how frameworks produce ideals of authenticity, and how these ideals are bound up... Read More about Designing Unesco Culture: Internationalism and the Global Imagination.

Edinburgh: the festival gaze and its boundaries (2004)
Journal Article
Jamieson, K. (2004). Edinburgh: the festival gaze and its boundaries. Space and Culture, 7(1), 64-75. https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331203256853

This article examines the temporal and spatial boundaries of Edinburgh’s festival identity. It unravels Edinburgh’s festivals in terms of the spaces and identities they produce and their functions. Although there is no one definitive standpoint from... Read More about Edinburgh: the festival gaze and its boundaries.