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Creative Industries
Risky business
Demos publication that explores the two perspectives on the Creative Industries in 2011. While acknowledged as a strong economic growth sector, there is simultaneously a perception that business risks for creative industries are greater than those for other sectors.
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Cultural value
Measuring social value: the gap between policy and practice
Demos report providing a snapshot of the third sector’s ability to measure and communicate the social value of the services it provides.
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Education
Born creative
In a series of essays, Born Creative brings together the experiences of creative practices in early years education. Intended to show the importance of cultures, environments and networks in the enrichment of early years learning.
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Participation
Culture shock
Joint Demos and CASE (Culture and Sport Evidence Programme) fellowship essay examining evidence in relation to public participation in culture and sport. Addresses the question: why should the state get involved in culture, and if it should, how?
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Cultural policy
Expressive lives
Collection of essays by well-known arts leaders and thinkers on what it means for cultural policy if we are to lead “an expressive life.”
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Cultural policy
Culture and learning: towards a new agenda
New Labour consultation paper which challenged cultural professionals and educationalists to provide a new and coherent direction for creative learning, and for encouraging creativity through culture.
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Participation
Democratic culture: opening up the arts to everyone
John Holden, writing in 2008, asks what ‘cultural democracy’ might look like, if we had it, and begins by addressing what ‘culture’ means today.
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Cultural value
Publicly-funded culture and the creative industries
2007 Demos report that explores the relationship between publicly-funded culture and the creative industries.
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International contexts
Cultural diplomacy
Demos document that argues that, more than ever before, culture has a vital role to play in international relations.
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Education
Making good work: realising the values of young people’s creative production
Paper contributing to the debate about what quality and values in children and young
people’s cultural production actually means. Written with Creative Partnerships Newcastle as a research partner.
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Working practice
So, what do you do? A new question for policy in the creative age
Argues that Government support for the Creative Industries is based on traditional models and is not fit for purpose for the new model creative economy.
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Leadership
Not a sideshow: leadership and cultural value – a matrix for change
Contributes to the cultural value debate by arguing there is little point in improving skills of individual leaders if their organisations remain unchanged.