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PACT: Promoting Art and creative industries Collaboration through social Technology systems
Summary: PACT (Promoting Art and creative industries Collaboration) is a pilot study funded by the EPSRC Innovative Media for a Digital Economy cluster. The aim is to generate scenarios for the design of environments and climates and cultures conducive to collaboration across the boundaries of art, craft, community, business & commerce, industry and the academy and to investigate possible opportunities for further research.
Key Facts
Type of Activity: Academic Research - Externally Funded
Principal Investigator: Monika Büscher
Co-investigator: Daniela Sangiorgi (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts)
Dept/Research Groups: ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Sociology
Project Description
PACT (Promoting Art and creative industries Collaboration) is a pilot study funded by the EPSRC Innovative Media for a Digital Economy cluster. The aim is to generate scenarios for the design of environments and climates and cultures conducive to collaboration across the boundaries of art, craft, community, business & commerce, industry and the academy and to investigate possible opportunities for further research.
Current debates highlight the value of creative enterprise to the UK economy and culture. Synergy between often intrinsically anarchic, experimental, individualistic, intellectually and aesthetically ambitious publicly funded art, commercially oriented creative industries, and creativity in the academy and in the community, seems critical to developing creativity as the engine of economic growth for towns, cities and regions, but it is ill understood. What is the role of the built environment? What kinds of practices, services, infrastructures material and cultural conditions are needed? What is the role of digital social technology systems in this process, and particularly in approaches of leading through practice? How can one design and implement technology for improved synergy?
Researchers at Lancaster University are working with the Storey Gallery in Lancaster to investigate collaboration and synergy between publicly-funded arts organisations, commercial creative businesses, and the wider community. The development of the new Storey creative industry centre in Lancaster provides an opportunity for an exemplar study of such activities.
PACT Research Team:
- Monika Büscher, Senior Lecturer, Sociology Lancaster
- Jen Southern, PhD candidate, Sociology Lancaster
- HyunJoo Lee, PhD candidate, ImaginationLancaster
- Daniela Sangiorgi, Lecturer, ImaginationLancaster
- John Angus, Director of Storey Gallery, Artist, Researcher and Curator
Purpose of Research
Academic Research - Externally Funded
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