An Assembly of Opinions : CAN-DO: from DIY to SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• Chaired by Jason E. Bowman A cross-dicipline conference on the interface between artistic and political resistance and the advent of social entrepreneurship. Panellists: Kate Bull is a co-founder of The Peoples Supermarket in Holborn, London. A community supermarket that highlights the possibilities of consumer power and challenges the status quo. This successful social enterprise is only 1 year old, but has gained recognition, locally and internationally. The subject of a Channel 4 series TPS has won prestigious retailing awards including; the Observer Ethical Award, The Cooperative Innovative Ethical award and the Smart Future Minds award. A retail expert, Kate is a Director of consultancy firm CTWB Ltd, working with established brands, new businesses and the Third sector. Professor David Cotterrell (Sheffield Hallam University) is an installation artist working across varied media. He has been a consultant to strategic masterplans, cultural and public art policy for urban regeneration, healthcare and growth areas. He is currently developing new work for solo exhibitions at Danielle Arnaud contemporary art and John Hansard Gallery (2012), with the support of the Philip Leverhulme Prize for research. Dr Lida Hujić is a strategist advising market leader brands. At the same time, she’s been at the epicentre of impactful DIY grassroots movements. Described by the Guardian as “really hip”, she was featured as a “trend-setter” in a number of publications and TV shows. Lida has a PhD in media and communications from Goldsmiths College. She is the author of The First to Know: How Hipsters and Mavericks Shape the Zeitgeist. Lois Keidan is the co founder and Director of the Live Art Development Agency London. She is concerned with supporting the development of the conditions and contexts within which art, artists, audiences, writers, students and scholars can flourish. From 1992-1997 she was Director of Live Arts at the ICA. In 1999 she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Dartington College of Arts and in 2009 a second by Queen Mary, University of London. Amy Spencer is the author of DIY: The Rise of Lo-Fi Culture (2005, 2008) and The Crafter Culture Handbook (2007) and currently writing her first novel whilst completing her PhD at Goldmsmith’s Centre for Cultural Studies. Her research explores the nature of collaborative authorship in networked books. Dan Thompson is an artist, photographer and writer and founder of The Empty Shops Network. It was founded to record projects in empty shops, to lobby for recognition for the sector, and encourage more work in empty shops.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Konst (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Ekonomi och näringsliv (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Economics and Business (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Social Entrepreneurship

Fine Art

Resistance

Publication and Content Type

vet (subject category)

kon (subject category)