Creative Communities, 1750-1830

在“社区”一词开始与飞地、特殊利益以及文化和社会凝聚力问题联系在一起的时候，我们坚信，从过去，特别是从1750年至1830年期间，可以立即吸取教训。重要的是超越当地的文化姿态，着眼于一种更自由的公民、制度和国家意识；但同时，将地方试验和完整性的元素注入民族文化。这一双重举措对一个社区的长期健康至关重要，了解过去是其中的一部分。本着这一原则，“创意社区”项目旨在通过重点研究关键的历史案例来促进我们对创意和社区之间关系的理解。它将研究社区成员之间以及不同社区之间的联系如何提高创造力。与此同时，它将对这些关键术语进行严格的历史考察。这三个工作坊将探讨创意社区理念的遗产和当前的影响。1750年至1830年间，博物馆、美术馆、持不同政见的学院、期刊、剧院和科学组织等形式的文化机构蓬勃发展，这些都是当今许多文化机构的前身。最近的学术工作已经开始质疑个人主义的文化生产方法，考虑到社会结构和关系是如何鼓励创造力的。这个项目寻求发展这一研究领域，从理论和实践两个方面将社区置于创造力考虑的核心。几个世纪以来，思想家、艺术家和企业家之间创造性思想的交流和发展一直是繁荣文化的核心，本项目承认了这一模式。拟议的网络以利兹创意项目为中心，与南安普顿大学和伦敦大学学院合作，将汇集来自一系列机构的知名和早期职业研究人员以及非学术利益攸关方，就创造力与社区之间的关系提出一些关键问题并进行辩论。“创意经济”如何才能增进公众福祉？在一个成功的创意社区中，地方性和全国性的平衡是什么？过去的社区是如何创造性地互动的？最重要的是，从理解这些过去的例子中可以学到什么教训？从这种公共强调中可以培养出什么样的创造性慷慨？

At a time when the term 'community' has begun to be associated with enclaves, special interests, and problems of cultural and social cohesion, we strongly believe that there are immediate lessons to be learned from the past, and from the 1750-1830 period in particular. It is important to reach beyond local cultural gestures and look towards a more liberating sense of the civic, institutional, and national; but at the same time to infuse the national culture with elements of local experiment and integrity. This dual move is crucial to the long-term health of a community, and understanding the past is part of it. With this principle in mind, the 'Creative Communities' project seeks to advance our understanding of the relationship between creativity and community by focusing on key historical case studies. It will examine how connections between members of a community, and between different communities, can enhance creativity. At the same time, it will subject those key terms to rigorous historical investigation. The three workshops will explore the legacies and current implications of the idea of a creative community. Between 1750 and 1830 there was a flowering of cultural institutions in the form of museums, galleries, dissenting academies, periodicals, theatres, and scientific organisations, the precursors of many of today's cultural institutions. Recent scholarly work has begun to question the individualistic approach to cultural production by considering how social structures and relationships have encouraged creativity. This project seeks to develop this area of research by placing community at the heart of considerations of creativity in both theoretical and practical ways.The exchange and development of creative ideas amongst thinkers, artists, and entrepreneurs has been at the heart of flourishing cultures for centuries, and this project recognises that model. The proposed network, centred on the Leeds Creativity Project in collaboration with the University of Southampton and University College London, will bring together established and early career researchers, as well as non-academic stakeholders, from a range of institutions, to ask and debate a number of key questions about the relationship between creativity and community. How can a 'creative economy' enhance communal well-being? What is the balance of local and national in a successful creative community? How did communities of the past creatively interact? Above all, what lessons may be learned from understanding these past examples? What kinds of creative generosity can grow from this communal emphasis?