Creative Exchange Lab (CEL)

在“人与地”的主题下，这项研究项目将侧重于创意产业内部的有效交流机制，特别是将创意部门的学术研究与作为个人艺术家和微型企业运营的创意专业从业人员联系起来。阿尔斯特大学和女王大学的学术从业者和研究生将通过在北爱尔兰各地弱势社区的一系列长期居住，与专业艺术家合作，探索当代数字和非数字艺术如何对边缘社区和地区产生变革性影响的方法。特别感兴趣的领域包括当地社区的艺术和公共艺术，艺术在冲突后社会中的作用，以及艺术在振兴北爱尔兰等地区方面可以发挥的作用。这项工作的一个关键成果将是有可能与已经将北爱尔兰视为冲突后区域典范的其他国际环境交流想法、活动和经验。女王学院和阿尔斯特学院之间的合作是通过一个新的创意交流实验室(CEL)建立的，将使音乐、电影、戏剧、创意写作和美术方面的项目能够在北爱尔兰各地的社区开发和交付。每一次都将包括研讨会，与从业者一起设计的创造性合作项目，并围绕当地问题、历史和背景构思。实习的结果将在2013年底在两个机构举办的一个大型节日和展览上展示，该展览将展示从业者和社区参与者的创造性成果。个别项目稍后将在地区场所展示，供当地社区体验，并将存档并在网上提供。与驻地一起进行的纵向研究将记录和报告单独艺术家和实践者的创意实践景观、创意集群和网络，以及这些活动与学术研究的关系。这项研究将在更广泛的区域和国家政府背景下对创意产业进行探索，在这种背景下，资金和支持的目标是中小企业和“贴近市场”的活动，很少确定独家从业者和微型企业的需求。除了学习，实习还将产生关于艺术家和特定社区的学术参与的新知识和工作方法，这些社区在历史上往往远离当代艺术实践和学术界。通过这两个机构提供的广泛的创造性活动将确保在北爱尔兰广泛开展社区项目。这些实习的公共参与方面也将对参与的研究生有利。

Under the theme of 'People and Places', this research project will focus on the mechanisms for effective exchange within the Creative Industries, linking in particular, academic research in the creative sector with creative professional practitioners who operate as solo artists and micro-business enterprises. Through a series of extended residencies located in disadvantaged communities across Northern Ireland, academic practitioners and postgraduates from the University of Ulster and Queen's University will work together with professional artists to explore ways in which contemporary digital and non-digital arts can have a transformative impact on liminal communities and districts. Areas of specific interest include art and public art in local communities, the role of art in a post-conflict society, and the role that art can play in regenerating a region such as Northern Ireland. A key outcome from this work will be the potential to share ideas, activities and experiences with other international contexts which are already looking to Northern Ireland as an example of a post-conflict region. The collaboration between Queen's and Ulster, established through a new Creative Exchange Lab (CEL),will enable projects in music, film, drama, creative writing, fine art, to be developed and delivered in communities across Northern Ireland. Each one will involve workshops, creative collaborative projects designed in association with the practitioners and conceived around local issues, histories and contexts. The outcomes of the residencies will be presented in a major festival and exhibition hosted across both institutions at the end of 2013 which will showcase the creative outcomes of both practitioners and community participants. Individual projects will later be presented in regional venues for local communities to experience and they will be archived and made available on-line.A longitudinal study running alongside the residencies will document and report on the creative practice landscape for lone artists and practitioners, creative clusters and networks, and the relationship of these activities to academic research. The study will be explored in a wider regional and national government context for the creative industries whereby funding and support is targeted at SMEs and 'close to market' activities and rarely identifying the needs of solo practitioners and and micro businesses. In addition to the study, the residencies will also lead to the generation of new knowledge and working methods about artist and academic engagement in specific communities which are often historically remote from both contemporary arts practice and academia. The breadth creative activities available through both institutions will ensure a wide spread of community projects across Northern Ireland. The public engagement aspect of these residencies will also be beneficial to the participating postgraduate students.