👩‍💻 New publication out in Sage Journals:

‘Fashion Designers as Lead Firms from Below: Creative Economy, State Capitalism, and Internationalization in #Lagos and #Nairobi ' by Roberta Comunian, Dr Lauren England & Eka Ikpe 🌍

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#CreativeEconomy #CreativeAfrica

King's CMCI team King's CMCI Dr Lauren England and Roberta Comunian will be visiting Lagos this week for a range of research meetings, launching Africa-Europe CoRE Creative Economies final report and presenting ARUA conference.
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📽️KCL researchers Dr Dr Lauren England and African Leadership Centre Dr Eka Ikpe head to #Lagos Nigeria to explore, document and film with Cristina Cabral #women #creativentreprenurships . Collaborative project with TERRA KULTURE Tribexxlab Peju Layiwola Ituen Basi
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Really excited to share a video 'Mapping Social Value' at the London School of Mosaic from a research collaboration with Chandra Morrison Ed Charlton, London School of Mosaic and Akil Scafe-Smith

📢New article spam! 'Crafting professionals: Logics of professional development in craft higher education' is now available #openaccess in Arts and Humanities_Journal part of a special issue ‘In the name of employability' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14… #craft #highereducation King's CMCI

A little blog about my craft graduate skills article in European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS) in Karen Patel and Rajinder Dudrah's special issue on Craft Economies and Inequalities 📑

⌛️A reminder of the 15th December deadline for abstracts for a special issue on Supporting Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurs in the Review of Entrepreneurship! entrepreneuriat.com/CALL-FOR-PAPER…

Great to see the special issue on Craft Economies and Inequalities in European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS) published! Includes my article on craft graduate skills and one with Roberta Comunian on craft intermediaries in Cape Town. Big thanks to Karen Patel and Rajinder Dudrah! journals.sagepub.com/toc/ecsa/25/6

Stunning key note presentation - visually and conceptually - from Sunny Dolat #AfricaFashion

Looking forward to listening to the talks at #AfricaFashion conference V&A today and presenting tomorrow with Roberta Comunian Eka Ikpe

What have the creative sub-sectors - from architecture to video games - being doing to reach #NetZero targets?

Yesterday we published a new report, with Julie's Bicycle, that maps out the steps that industry and policy makers need to take next 👇

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📢📑Exited to share the CFP for a Special Issue I am guest editing for the Review of Entrepreneurship ''Supporting Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship' entrepreneuriat.com/CALL-FOR-PAPER… Deadline for abstracts 15th December #CreativeEntrepreneurship

Love to hear it. Here's to hope!

Thank you Gillian Easson for sharing how the Dundee Cultural Recovery research is being used by Creative Dundee

Arts, science and humanities experts exploring a range of fascinating themes around disruption, experience, migration, policy, the body and more King's Culture Creative Collaborations workshop here today Science Gallery London #ArtScience
King’s Climate & Sustainability
Alice Sharp
Johanna Kieniewicz

Getting inspiration for my new Sustainability Care & Culture module King's CMCI hearing about Gary Stewart and Invisible Dust projects at Creative Collaborations workshop Science Gallery London King's Culture

🌱🌱looking forward to the Creative Collaborations workshop Science Gallery London today, organised by King's Culture & Invisible Dust. Bringing together academics and artists to discuss #ClimateCrisis , #collaborations and #sustainability .

ANNOUNCING CKC 2023: New Futures for Creative Economies! Our conference returns to Bristol in March '23 after a COVID hiatus. We'll be focussing on more inclusive futures for the creative economy beyond capitalism.

Details of how to get involved here: creativeeconomies.co.uk/ckc-2023/

Dundee needs enabling creative space.

Not: Temp daytime access with archaic leases weighted in one party’s asset interests.

Instead: Long term 24/7 leases, built by partnerships recognising transformative change takes time, energy, shared risk & investment (not always hard £).

Note to self