Finding the Right Questions

Defending Homemade Culture
 I’ve been thinking about that John Holden video I posted a few weeks ago that touched on redefining the value of arts and culture, and have been observing how the three deeply interrelated forms of culture he describes—publicly-funded, commercial and homemade—are played out in the community where I live.   Holden writes in his 2008 report Democratic Culture: Opening Up the Arts to Everyone “…that the upsurge of home-made culture in the last thirty years, brought abou

Does “Sense of Place” Attract Creative People & Fuel Economies?
The terms creative economy, creative industries, creative cities, creative class, and creative clusters have become all the rage these days, with economic development departments from cities large and small not only embracing the terms, but actively pursuing ways to attract and retain individuals that produce and consume “creative” products and services of all types.   A number of agencies have sprung up to champion this specific approach to planning and

Value of Arts and Culture Redefined
How is the traditional model of the value of arts and culture being redefined in today’s global economy? John Holden describes the expanding and interrelated reach of arts and culture…