From Analogue to Digital and Back Again: Institutional Dynamics of Heritage Innovation

This article traces the emergence of a digital imperative - the belief in the necessity of digitising cultural expressions - in a particular heritage project in the Dutch city of Maastricht. The main reason for doing so is to contribute to the growing body of literature on digital cultural heritage, a perspective that pays analytical attention to the organisational and institutional dynamics of heritage innovation. Such a perspective complicates the popular assumption that digitisation will be beneficial to participation and instead puts forward - by drawing on institutional theory and the sociology of expectations - a less technology-centric and more contextual understanding of digital heritage. The conclusion highlights the potential of institutional analysis and the sociology of expectations for digital heritage studies

Beyond Regulation: Towards a Cultural Political Economy of Complexity and Emergence

Drawing on and contributing to materialist state theory, the regulation approach and institutional economics for more than three decades, Bob Jessop can certainly be considered one of the foremost Marxist political economists of our time. Recently, he has taken on board the cultural turn in social analysis by developing a highly original cultural political economy of the knowledge-based economy. As a contribution to the further development of a cultural political economy that is sensitive to the cultural dimensions of social life while retaining an emphasis on capital accumulation and state regulation, this article directs attention to the limits of Jessop's approach and suggests possible amendments to the theory. In particular, the article highlights the need to move beyond a concern with regulation towards a cultural political economy of complexity and emergence

The Clustering of Creative Networks: Between Myth and Reality

and even deepening that which it claims to transcend—namely, socio-spatial inequalities (Oakley, 2006). On the other hand, clustering really does take place and it can be argued that networks of aesthetic production have an inherent tendency to converge together into spatial agglomerations (Scott, 2000). In this paper, I discuss the structuring function of urban location by analysing the tensions between networks of aesthetic pro-duction and the various ‘creative clusters ’ that emerge from these networks. My argument in a nutshell is that the clustering of networked aesthetic production is structured by the con-temporary accumulation regime and mod

Frans in Nederlandse advertenties: drager van symbolische en letterlijke betekenis

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The Built Environment of Higher Education and Research: Architecture and the Expectation of Innovation

Informed by the belief that higher education and research (her) plays an important role in knowledge-based innovation, the last decade in particular has seen a flurry of building activity in cities around the world. This has led to many new or restructured urban campuses and buildings dedicated in particular to supporting interactions between researchers, firm members and/or citizens which, in turn, are seen to contribute to urban and regional innovation. This article, first of all, briefly describes a few concrete examples of her buildings to illustrate the expectations surrounding these built environments. This is followed by a more extensive analysis of three bodies of literature that study the production and use of her buildings: (i) research on universities and real estate development, (ii) urban and regional studies on the role of her institutes in generating human and social capital and (iii) science and technology studies on architecture and spaces of science. A concluding section points to some of the limitations of and possible productive interactions between these three strands. It argues that there is a major need for comparative synthetic research that can: evaluate finished and ongoing building projects; analyse the actual interactions between researchers, firm members and/or citizens in and as a result of these buildings; and provide concrete suggestions for the improvement of future her buildings

"Beaucoup de plaisir", Franse slagzinnen in Nederlandse reclame

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