Liquid crystal as chemical form and model of thinking in Alfred Döblin’s modernist science

Book synopsis: In the early decades of the twentieth century, engagement with science was commonly used as an emblem of modernity. This phenomenon is now attracting increasing attention in different historical specialties. Being Modern builds on this recent scholarly interest to explore engagement with science across culture from the end of the nineteenth century to approximately 1940. Addressing the breadth of cultural forms in Britain and the western world from the architecture of Le Corbusier to working class British science fiction, Being Modern paints a rich picture. Seventeen distinguished contributors from a range of fields including the cultural study of science and technology, art and architecture, English culture and literature examine the issues involved. The book will be a valuable resource for students, and a spur to scholars to further examination of culture as an interconnected web of which science was a critical part, and to supersede such tired formulations as 'Science and culture'

A critical account of historical developments in the analysis of popular culture in Britain since the eighteenth century

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Creative clusters, social inclusion, and sustainability: The case of Hackney Wick and Fish Island

This report emerges from a research project jointly commissioned by Hackney Council, Tower Hamlets Council and the London Legacy Development Corporation. It was created to inform the local authorities’ bid to the Mayor of London’s Creative Enterprise Zones Scheme (2018). Using quantitative and qualitative methods, this investigation seeks to uncover evidence about the characteristics of social inclusion practices and its impact on the sustainability of creative economy businesses based in HWFI

Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals (UK/Brazil)

The project “Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals (UK/Brazil)” was developed by researchers from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and University of Sao Paulo (USP), building upon the methods used by QMUL researchers on the four-year project “Creativeworks London”1, funded by the AHRC. It was aimed at two goals: (a) to map the activities of two hubs in the city of São Paulo,in order to identify their impact on the local economies and territories; and (b) to implement creative vouchers along the same guidelines of the Creativeworks London (CWL) project, to foster collaboration between university and creative entrepreneurs, micro and small creative enterprises, aiming at the economic sustainability of Sao Paulo’s creative class. This document reports on the project findings: in its first section, it presents the study on Hubs. Two cases were selected in the project: Impact Hub, a unit in a global network of co-working venues, and Ori, a building that houses a children education Initiative, a small theater and a co-working space. In the second section, it describes results from the voucher scheme. Five vouchers were granted: two for Impact Hub companies, and three for Ori fi rms. The hubs are polar cases, from two different fields of action in Sao Paulo, which is reflected in the voucher recipients