Lecture Outline
1. Creative economies
2. Everyday (vernacular) creativities
3. Art-full geographies and creative research methods

1. Creative economies

‘Those sectors which specialise in the use for creative talent for commercial purposes’ (Nesta 2014)

Architecture, advertising, gaming industry etc. → Growing around 1.5x faster than the economy as a whole
115.5 billion pounds in 2019

2. Vernacular creativities

• Everyday, ordinary creativities

• ‘Not for profit’

• Identity formation

• building social relations

• well-being

Such as playing or streaming games, creating things by scratch, etc.
As well as:
Vernacular spaces i.e:
-Bedrooms
-Sheds
-Gardens
-Pubs
-Faith spaces

3. Art-Full geographies

Long history of cultural geography’s engagement with arts and humanities - particularly in the study of representation and landscape

From around 2000:
Growth of geographers practicing creativity
-Engagement with practices of creative artists representing places and other grographies
-Creative partnerships with creative arts
-Creative practise as a research method - as a way of developing knowledge and understanding of the world