Culture and creativity: A case study from the West of Ireland

Creative Urban Kampung Based on Local Culture, a Case of Kampung Bustaman Semarang

“…Local culture is a capital to enhance local economy through creativity (Catungal et al, 2009;Collins & Fahy, 2011;Escalona-Orcao et al, 2016;Florida, 2003;Grodach, 2017;Hall, 2000;Kakiuchi, 2016;Ojha, 2017;Sasaki, 2010;Suprapti et al, 2019). Suprapti et al (2019) mentioned that local culture is potential to emerge the creative economy in a cultural village.…”

“…Many researchers highlighted that local culture is a modal to support the creative city. Local culture could create, increase, and revitalize the local economy through creative economies or industries, creative activities, and creative classes (Catungal et al, 2009;Collins & Fahy, 2011;Florida, 2003;Grodach, 2017;Hall, 2000;Kakiuchi, 2016;Sasaki, 2010;Suprapti et al, 2019). Many cities have their cultural assets and uniqueness as urban images.…”

“…Creative city policy appeared as a new movement of a city to deal with local problems, especially for reducing urban inequalities based on cultural assets (Grodach, 2017). In developing countries, creative city is used to overcome the urbanization problems, economic restructuring, and increasing social vitality (Grodach, 2017;Kakiuchi, 2016).Many countries have been successful to implement creative city idea to improve their urban economic as in Galway City, Ireland (Collins & Fahy, 2011); Kanazawa City, Japan (Kakiuchi, 2016;Sasaki, 2010); Turin, Italy (Vanolo, 2008); Manchester and London, UK (Montgomery, 2005); and Istanbul, Turkey (Alvarez, 2010). Meanwhile in Indonesia, the creative city can be reflected to many concepts, such as creative urban kampung and creative-based tourism.…”

Dancing toward the light in the dark: COVID-19 changes and reflections on normal from Australia, Ireland and Mexico

“…Ireland is intimately associated with culture and the arts and yet has an under-resourced cultural infrastructure, particularly in the community sector (Bayliss, 2004;Collins & Fahy, 2011;Slaby, 2011). The communal nature of traditional Irish society, and the prevalence of artistic modes and performance as part of everyday life and ritual means that there is a sense of the arts being taken for granted.…”

The Northern Rivers media sector: making do in a high-profile rural location

“…Globalization and national integration are seen to concentrate on already centralized screen production activity, resources, infrastructures, capabilities and creative workforces (see Krätke 2003, Cook andPandit 2008). However the Northern Rivers is one among a number of regions such as the west of Ireland (Collins and Fahy 2011), the Lakes District in the UK (Scott 2012) and New Brunswick (Bruce 2010) -which demonstrate that significant cultural and screen media industry capabilities can exist beyond large cities. In this paper, we examine this apparent anomaly, consider why it has occurred in the Northern Rivers instance and explore its implications for cultural policy.…”