DCU School of Communciations in association with ISSP Presents:

"Cultural Industries, Occupations and Places:
How Important for Investment and Innovation Policies?"

- A lecture with UK Fulbright scholar Professor Ann Markusen

Date: Thursday, November 18th
Venue: Room CG12, Henry Grattan Building, DCU
Time:3pm

Programme for Thursday 18th Nov.
3.00-4.00: Lecture/presentation by Ann Markusen
4.00-4.30: Qs & As

About Professor Markusen

Ann Markusen is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Director of the Project on Regional and Industrial Economics (PRIE) at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. She is currently UK Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the Glasgow School of Art's Urban Lab. Her lecture at DCU will see Prof. Markusen focus on the distinctive features of innovation processes in the media and cultural services sectors.
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About the Lecture

In her lecture, Prof. Markusen will review the changing role, size and composition of the cultural and media industries and the significance of cultural labour for new industrial development strategies. While endorsing overdue attention to the "right brain" economy, she will draw upon recent empirical studies to argue that opportunities to increase jobs in cultural industries may be limited and that greater attention to creative labour is a better investment. Similarly she will argue that, for cities, judicious, smaller scale and dispersed cultural nodes, aimed at local residents, offer better investment opportunities than large arts facilities aimed at tourists. She will also point to some findings from her comparative work on creative industries strategies in the British context related to her current position at the Glasgow Urban Lab where her research engages with the economic and cultural impact that artists and creative projects can have on urban environments.

This event has been organised by the School of Communications, DCU in assosiation with the Irish Social Science Platform Knowledge Society strand.