Slides from Phil Jones' presentation to Birmingham City Council's Cultivating Culture Symposium held at the Library of Birmingham 18 March 2014

1. Cultural
Intermediation
and the creative urban economy
Cultivating Culture Symposium
Dr Phil Jones, University of Birmingham
@philjonesgeog
18 March 2014

2. Universities are about
learning not lecturing

3. Gini coefficient

4. Type Sectors
Cultural promotion and
preservation
Museums, galleries and
archives; exhibitions and
festivals
Creative activities Music, visual, literary and
graphic art
Creative communication Film, TV, radio, new media,
social networking
Creative interfaces Creative interactions with
business, intellectual
property
Creative Economy to the
rescue?

5. Who are the
intermediaries?

6. How do people experience
culture in their
neighbourhood?
Hard to reach
communities or hard
to reach culture?

7. Co-Commission projects
that engage communities
with creative economy

8. Permission to fail
How are things done?
What works?
What does failure tell us?

9. Find new ways to value
and evaluate

10. Contact
Dr Phil Jones
p.i.jones@bham.ac.uk
@philjonesgeog
Dr Saskia Warren
s.warren@bham.ac.uk
@cultintermed
culturalintermediation.org.uk