London Creative and Digital Fusion

date-added: 2015-03-24 04:16:59 +0000 date-modified: 2015-03-24 04:16:59 +0000date-added: 2015-03-24 04:16:59 +0000 date-modified: 2015-03-24 04:16:59 +0000The London Creative and Digital Fusion programme of interactive, tailored and in-depth support was designed to support the UK capital’s creative and digital companies to collaborate, innovate and grow. London is a globally recognised hub for technology, design and creative genius. While many cities around the world can claim to be hubs for technology entrepreneurship, London’s distinctive potential lies in the successful fusion of world-leading technology with world-leading design and creativity. As innovation thrives at the edge, where better to innovate than across the boundaries of these two clusters and cultures? This booklet tells the story of Fusion’s innovation journey, its partners and its unique business support. Most importantly of all it tells stories of companies that, having worked with London Fusion, have innovated and grown. We hope that it will inspire others to follow and build on our beginnings.European Regional Development Fund 2007-13

Being Modern: The Cultural Impact of Science in the Early Twentieth Century

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 is a critical part, and to supersede such tired formulations as 'Science and culture'

Intraspecific Variation of Aboveground Woody Biomass Increment in Hybrid Poplar at High Temperature

In the continental United States, mean surface air temperature is expected to increase by up to 5°C within 100 years. With hotter temperatures, leaf budbreak is expected to occur earlier in forests, and leaf area is expected to increase in locations where temperature is limiting. The response of plant photosynthesis to hotter temperatures is less certain; plant productivity could increase or decrease. Past studies have found intraspecific variation in the responses of forest tree productivity, phenology, canopy leaf area, and leaf isoprene emission to warming, which all influence carbon uptake and yield for agricultural tree species; it is therefore important to understand not only how hot climates affect carbon uptake and biomass production between different tree species, but also in different genotypes of the same species. We conducted a common garden study at the Biosphere 2 research center near Oracle, AZ, USA. We created a hybrid poplar plantation of 168 trees, which were planted as cuttings in January 2013. The trees used in this study are comprised of 5 distinct genotypes of Populus deltoides × trichocarpa from a range of average annual air temperatures. We measured photosynthetic capacity, leaf phenological timing, canopy leaf area and aboveground woody biomass in 2014 growing season, and leaf isoprene emission in the 2015 growing season. We observed a strong effect of genotype on aboveground woody biomass increment, implying strong local adaptation to the home range and limited phenotypic plasticity in terms of physiological and biometric responses to high temperature environments. Our study suggests that genotypes from hotter home ranges are able to maintain photosynthetic capacity and canopy leaf area late into the growing season, despite high temperatures, and thus produce more aboveground woody biomass. This study may have implications for agricultural management—as temperatures warm where managers currently grow hybrid poplar for agricultural or other purposes, the genotypes from those home ranges would likely have reduced yield; managers could investigate the use of genotypes from home ranges with higher average temperatures to replace the vulnerable local varieties

A 'Sector Deal' and a Creative Precariat: Shaping Creative Economy Policy in the UK since 2010

This chapter analyses the development of policies for the creative economy in the UK over the past ten years. In doing so it seeks to foreground the diversity of these policies across different parts of the UK, as well the contested nature of creative economy policies that are often seen from the outside as homogeneous. It thus challenges the notion that there is one ‘UK model’ that can be readily exported and applied in different national contexts

The Refusal to Work and the Representation of Political Subjectivity in the 1920s and 2020s

This article considers the power of the general strike as an enabling ‘myth’ within in a range of literary texts from the 1920s that address the specific historical meanings of the 1926 General Strike. It also considers the legacies of such early-twentieth-century engagements with a collective refusal to work for the understanding of political subjectivity in the 2020s

Creative Hubs and Cultural Policies: A Comparison Between Brazil and the United Kingdom

This article presents a comparative analysis of ten creative hubs located in London, Birmingham, and São Paulo. It expolores how cultural policies in the UK and Brazil have constituted in distinct ways the boundaries between ‘culture’ and ‘innovation’. Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of ‘field’, ‘habitus’, and ‘capital’ inform this analysis and its account of the ‘cultural-production subfield’ and the ‘innovation-production subfield’ within the creative economies and cultural policies of the UK and Brazil. The article also draws on Pier Luigi Sacco’s cultural history and theory to make an argument about the key factors underpinning recent changes in cultural policy

Coworking Spaces in Urban Settings

Coworking spaces (CWS) are a recent urban phenomenon; workplaces created to provide infrastructure and interaction opportunities for independent professionals and freelancers. This article reviews and discusses the literature on CWS, and finds that they can play five roles: infrastructure provider, community host, knowledge disseminator, local coupling point and global pipeline connector, and CWS expected impact are greater when more of those roles are performed