Overview
Project status: In progress
This project draws on cultural, disability and performance theory to develop a new theoretical framework for analysing the performativity of spectatorship, and longstanding assumptions about live performance's power to prompt spectators to reflect critically on cultural norms.
- Research leader
- Research team
- QUT
- Organisational unit
- Lead unit Creative Industries Faculty
- Start date
- 1st January 2009
- End date
- 1st January 2012
- Research area
- Digital media, communication and culture
- Keywords
- culture, urban informatics
Professor Michael Keane
Professor Greg HearnDetails
Clusters of diverse creative businesses are increasingly important for creative industries and urban policy makers in the West and especially in China. In order to plan and design such clusters in a way that responds to the needs of these businesses, we need a much better understanding of how they work. The success of creative clusters depends as much on their 'soft infrastructure' (networking, knowledge, human capital, sense of identity etc.) as on their 'hard infrastructure'.
A crucial addition to this soft infrastructure are new forms of digital networking, advanced workspace design, urban screens and other kinds of digital place-making - all of which build on the fluid, face-to-face interaction of physical space. The project as a whole will involve a survey of best practice in 'the West', followed by an in-depth investigation of the planning, design, management and usage of different creative clusters in China allowing the adaptation of models generated from western cases. This research will involve a detailed study of the actual and potential role of new networking technologies and usages, interactive media and embedded urban infomatics.
Publications and output
A series of theoretical models with string policy implications for the design of creative clusters in China and elsewhere.
