By tigtog on November 5, 2009
Marcus Westbury’s column for The Age has been exploring some really interesting topics in cultural policy. His most recent column is one of his best. Now posted on his blog, the article examines the relative responses of the ABC and the [...]
Posted in Culture, Howardia, Media | Tagged arts, Australia Council, Ben Eltham, cultural policy, Culture, digital culture, digital literacy, Marcus Westbury, politics and culture, refugees |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 26, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/creative-brisbane-2.JPG" Folks might remember I talked a while back about the ‘Creative Brisbane’ event we’re presenting tonight as part of the Brisbane CitySmart Innovation Festival. The response to both this conversation and to the BrisCulture concept has been really [...]
Posted in Blogging, Brisbane, Culture, Notices, Sociology | Tagged arts, Blogging, Brisbane, Brisbane City Council, BrisCulture, Bruce Muirhead, Centre for Policy Development, CitySmart Innovation Festival, connectivity, Creative Brisbane, creative futures, creativity, cultural policy, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, curation, Danielle Bentley, Eidos Institute, festivals, Ideas Festival, Innovation Australia, Jaz Choi, Linda Carroli, Marcus Westbury, Mark Bahnisch, Music, Policy, public art, public policy, Queensland, sociality, Urbanism, web |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 28, 2009
A lot of my academic and consultancy work at the moment is focused on online urbanism, distributed knowledge and urban creativity. I’m loath to use the term ‘action research’ loosely, but this form of public sociology is really impossible to [...]
Posted in Activism, Art, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Brisbane, Culture, Media, Music, Notices, Policy, Sociology, The Web, Urbanism | Tagged arts, Blogging, Brisbane, Brisbane City Council, BrisCulture, Centre for Policy Development, CitySmart Innovation Festival, connectivity, Creative Brisbane, creative futures, creativity, cultural policy, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, curation, Eidos Institute, festivals, Ideas Festival, Innovation Australia, Mark Bahnisch, Music, Policy, public art, public policy, Queensland, sociality, The Valley, Urbanism, web |
By Guest Poster on February 2, 2009
Cross-posted from Marcus’ blog. From my small air conditioned bubble in a sweltering Melbourne the abstract economic gloom of stock shocks and far away corporate collapses is getting less and less abstract with each passing day. Anecdotal reports of jobs [...]
Posted in Culture, Economics, Melbourne, Sociology | Tagged arts, Australian culture, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, DIY, economic cycle, innovation, laneways, Marcus Westbury, Melbourne, Newcastle, recession, unemployment |
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