Future Screens NI

未来屏幕NI由两所高等教育机构（阿尔斯特大学和昆士兰大学）和一些对该地区创意经济至关重要的关键工业合作伙伴组成，包括NI屏幕，BBC，贝尔法斯特市议会，贝尔法斯特港，Causeway Enterprise Agency, Digital Catapult, Catalyst Inc.， RTE, Games NI, Kainos, Invest NI, Techstart NI， Matrix和Tourism NI。北爱尔兰议会将创意产业定义为“那些源于个人创造力、技能和才能，并有潜力通过产生和利用知识产权创造财富和就业机会的产业”。由此，合作伙伴关系为NI创意产业制定了一个定义和工作模式，该模式侧重于参与、文化和经济增长以及社会和经济再生，使合作伙伴关系成为NI创意产业的主要发展催化剂。在北爱尔兰的背景下，创意产业不仅仅是另一个重要的经济部门，根据DCMS的数据，创意产业为北爱尔兰经济创造了10.1亿英镑的总增加值，雇佣了北爱尔兰2.9%的劳动力。对于一个经历了深刻冲突、社会和文化分裂和功能失调的地区来说，创意产业部门继续为文化表达、个人成长和经济成就提供了另一种成功的范例，一种新的模式。参与未来屏幕NI的组织集群可以定义为：(a)视听主导，辅以数字部门的实力和技术对其他更传统部门的影响，例如；在旅游、文物、纺织品和工艺品方面；(b)作为一个区域在北爱尔兰开展业务，由贝尔法斯特前往工作区域驱动（添加参考NESTA），但具有区域范围的职权范围，特别是与该省西北部相连；c)由20世纪冲突后文化空间的复杂性、包括与爱尔兰共和国边境在内的多种商业和文化关系、Invest NI和Catalyst Inc.等经济发展机构的作用，以及高等教育和高等教育学院在创意产业中的重大投资，塑造了一个在英国境内具有特色的空间定义的多产业集群；d)包括新兴的动画、游戏和沉浸式技术产业，尽管以国际标准衡量规模较小，但却是NI经济增长最快的部门之一。未来屏幕NI的总体目标是对创意产业在促进NI经济增长和创造新的就业机会方面可以发挥的作用进行新的理解。它将通过研究新技术和机遇，开发适当的教育和培训模式，将NI创意业务推向国际市场，并与政府和其他关键机构合作以确保持续增长。这种干预的重要性在于，它将NI的创意产业建立为一个中立的空间，在这里，当代和新兴的工业形式可以在过渡时期的安全环境中得到发展，而过渡时期仍然受到潜在政治紧张局势的影响。集群在低风险创新环境中为高风险创意活动提供安全空间，促进实验和文化机会，其作用怎么评价都不为过。正如Benedict Anderson（1991）所表明的那样，社区通过想象的联系和未来屏幕的概念进行互动，NI将积极作为一个中心，创造新的想象社区形式，在创造真正的就业和促进经济增长的同时，促进和规范政治稳定。

Future Screens NI comprises the two higher education institutions (Ulster University and QUB) and a number of key industrial partners central to the creative economy in the region, including NI Screen, BBC, Belfast City Council, Belfast Harbour, Causeway Enterprise Agency, Digital Catapult, Catalyst Inc., RTE, Games NI, Kainos, Invest NI, Techstart NI, Matrix and Tourism NI. The Northern Ireland Assembly defines the creative industries as 'those industries which have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent and which have a potential for wealth and job creation through the generation and exploitation of intellectual property'. The Partnership has, from this, developed a definition of, and a working model for, the creative industries in NI which is focused on participation, cultural and economic growth, and social and economic regeneration placing the Partnership as a leading developmental catalyst in this NI sector. In the context of Northern Ireland, the creative industries are more than just another key economic sector, generating, according to DCMS figures, £1.01 billion in gross added value of the NI economy, and employing 2.9% of the entire NI workforce. For a region emerging from a period of profound conflict, and social and cultural division and dysfunction, the creative industries sector has continued to offer an alternative and successful paradigm, a new model for cultural expression, personal growth, and economic attainment. The cluster of organisations involved in Future Screens NI may be defined as: (a) audiovisual-led, complemented by the strength of the digital sector and the impact of technology in other more traditional sectors, eg. in tourism, heritage, textiles and crafts;(b) operating across NI as a region, driven by the Belfast travel-to-work-area (add ref to NESTA) but with a region-wide remit linking, in particular, to the North West of the province; c) a spatially defined multi-industry cluster that is distinctive within the UK, shaped by the complexity of cultural space in the aftermath of 20th-century conflict, a plurality of commercial and cultural relationships including across the border with the Republic of Ireland, the role of economic development bodies such as Invest NI and Catalyst Inc., and the significant investment of the HEIs and FE colleges in the creative industries;d) comprising emerging animation, games and immersive technologies industries, which although small by international standards, is one of the fastest growing sectors of the NI economy. The overarching aim of Future Screens NI is to develop a new understanding of the role the creative industries can play in advancing the NI economy both in terms of financial growth and the creation of new employment opportunities. It will do this by researching new technologies and opportunities, developing appropriate educational and training models, placing NI creative businesses in front of international markets, and working with government and other key agencies to ensure sustained growth. The importance of this intervention is that it establishes the creative industries in NI as a neutral space where contemporary and emerging industrial forms can be advanced in secure settings in a transitional period which is still informed by underlying political tensions. The role of the Cluster as a safe space for high-risk creative endeavour in a low-risk innovation environment, one that fosters experiment and cultural opportunity, cannot be overestimated. As Benedict Anderson (1991) has shown, communities interact through concepts of imagined connection and Future Screens NI will actively work as a hub to create new forms of imagined community which advance and normalise political stability while creating real employment and building economic growth.