Creative Practices and Cultural Economy

The Centre for Creative Practices and Cultural Economy (CPCE) provides a unique framework for the investigation of creative practice within a cultural economy context.  It merges creative practice with cross-disciplinary areas such as public history, information technology, cultural analysis and economics.  In doing so, Creative Practice brings new understanding to the Creative Industries concept.  It explores a range of perspectives on the process of creativity from inception to production, in order to determine how meaning is made in contemporary society across a range of cultural forms.

The Centre's core investigations are the key issues of 'cultural and economic values', their nature, their purpose and most importantly, their intersection with each other and with creative practice.

The CPCE provides fresh perspectives by understanding cultural economy as a closely interwoven fabric of cultural and economic creative practices which represent a whole systems approach in the determination of value.  This entails not only the tangible qualities that emerge through process and production, but the intangible processes of individual values, sense of place, identity and passion that are captured within all creative works.