Critical Spaces - Art, Culture, Society, Agency

研讨会将探讨在城市社会变化的背景下，创造性想象力的概念和潜在的智力和物质影响。特别是，它将从艺术和社会科学的几个不同观点测试创造力的想法，并质疑与社会政治和文化结构有关的文化机构的概念。它将质疑，例如，创造性想象力可以应用于对另类社会形态的想象。此次竞标是与普利茅斯艺术中心合作进行的，该艺术中心目前参与了普利茅斯后工业城市的主要城市再生战略。这是一个热门而紧迫的问题，由于缺乏明确的数据，英国政府对艺术的支持正在接受审查，文化主导的城市再生的结果。在某些情况下，以文化为主导的重建结果可能在视觉上具有吸引力，但未能影响去工业化和移民带来的结构性问题。这使人们重新关注创造力的本质，需要更深入地了解创造力作为民主社会变革引擎的动力和潜力。在解决这些困难的过程中，为了社会和谐和资源效率的利益，出现了一些问题，如传统艺术模式在城市发展中的有效性，创造性想象力如何为城市变化过程提供信息，艺术如何提供富有想象力的转变模式，以及创造性想象力如何有助于新的社会形态和创造性和民主社会的可持续发展。一个博士后级别的核心小组将均等地从艺术（包括当代艺术实践、文化理论和建筑）和社会科学（包括城市社会学、城市地理学、文化地理学和文化政策）中抽取参与者，以寻找新的方法来解决最近城市变化中文化干预所提出的问题。

The workshop will investigate the concept and potential intellectual and material impact of the creative imagination in settings of urban social change. In particular it will test ideas of creativity from several different viewpoints in the arts and social sciences, and question the concept of cultural agency in relation to socio-political as well as cultural structures. It will interrogate, for instance, the idea that the creative imagination can be applied in the imagining of alternative social formations. The bid is made in partnership with Plymouth Arts Centre, currently involved in major urban regeneration strategies in the post-industrial city of Plymouth.This is a topical and urgent question, posed when UK government support for the arts is under review following a shortage of clear data for the outcomes of culturally-led urban regeneration. In some cases, the results of culturally-led regeneration may have been visually attractive while failing to impact structural problems posed by de-industrialisation and migration. This throws attention back to the nature of creativity, and the need for deeper understanding of its dynamics and potential as an engine of change in a democratic society. In addressing such difficulties, in the interests of social harmony and resource efficiency, questions arise as to the effectiveness of conventional models of arts work in urban development, how the creative imagination informs processes of urban change, how the arts offer models of imaginative transformations and how the creative imagination might contribute to new social formations and sustainable development of a creative as well as democratic society.A core group pf participants at post-doctoral level will be drawn equally from the Arts (including contemporary art practice, cultural theory, and architecture) and social sciences (including urban sociology, urban geography, cultural geography, and cultural policy), to find new approaches to the questions raised by recent cultural interventions in urban change.