Enabling creativity : Reflections on the work practices of management at platforms for creative and cultural work

• Culture and creativity are often described as central elements in urban and regional development. This paper takes its point of departure in an ongoing research project on the work of professionals at platforms for creative and cultural work in Scania, Sweden. Through narratives of and about the professionals at the different platforms the paper illustrates how creativity and creative work are encouraged and facilitated. The main contribution of the paper is the mapping of two practices for enabling creativity. Further, we reflect on how the platform professionals can be perceived as a new contemporary ‘guild’, whose actions, language use and terms illustrate the creative imperative of the cultural economy.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Övrig annan samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Other Social Sciences -- Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap -- Kommunikationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Media and Communications -- Communication Studies (hsv//eng)

Keyword

accelerator

inkubator

makerspaces

kreativt och kulturellt arbete

narrative ethnography

practice theory

Accelerators

incubators

makerspaces

creativity and cultural work

narrative ethnography

practice theory

Publication and Content Type

kon (subject category)

vet (subject category)