Creative Cardiff: utilising cultural mapping for community engagement
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Murray, S. 2017. Creative Cardiff: utilising cultural mapping for community engagement. City, Culture and Society. 11, pp. 4-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccs.2017.08.003
Type | Article |
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Title | Creative Cardiff: utilising cultural mapping for community engagement |
Authors | Murray, S. |
Abstract | In 2014 Cardiff University set up a Creative Economy team tasked with exploring how the university could improve its relationship with creative practitioners around the city. To explore this relationship the team embarked upon a research project to map creative industries in the city using a mixed methodology of online data collection and semi-ethnographic interviews. As the project progressed the creative economy team designed and launched a city-wide creative network Creative Cardiff connecting the city's creative populous through events, resources and a website with membership subscription. This article explores how mapping can be used to develop the university/creative economy relationship within metropolitan spaces as a contributor to the development of the modern civic university. It also explores the opportunities and challenges posed by a mapping project of this scale, taking into account debates in cultural mapping literature as to what a map actually is. |
Keywords | Cultural mapping, Community engagement, Cardiff, HEIs |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Journal | City, Culture and Society |
ISSN | 1877-9166 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 19 Sep 2017 |
31 Dec 2017 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 09 Apr 2020 |
Accepted | 29 Aug 2017 |
Output status | Published |
Additional information | Part of special issue: Valletta 2018 cultural mapping: debating space and place. Edited by P.L. Sacco, G. Vella |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccs.2017.08.003 |
Language | English |
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