The Forum for Irish Urban Studies (FIUS) and  the Irish Social Sciences Platform (ISSP) in association with the Dept. of Geography, TCD, the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA), the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS) and the Dept. of Geography, NUI Maynooth

present 

‘Creative Cities: Panacea or Placebo for Urban Policy-Making?’

A half-day conference exploring critically the concepts of creative cities and creative economies and their role in urban and economic policymaking.

Monday 9^th March 2009 9am-1.30pm

Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin

Keynote Speaker:

Prof. Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

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If you would like to attend the conference we ask that you register as places are limited.

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For queries, please contact Sinéad Kelly (email: Sinead.M.Kelly@nuim.ie, tel: 01 7083938) or Enda Murphy (email: enda.murphy@ucd.ie, tel: 01 7162810)

The Forum for Irish Urban Studies (FIUS) was established in response to the wide range of issues and policies currently affecting the development of Irish urban areas. Rapid urban change, urban expansion and changing urban form have presented new and often problematic scenarios for urban policy-makers and urban dwellers alike.

Since 2003, the Forum has hosted a series of public lectures and post-graduate seminars. The seminars are designed to provide students, practitioners and members of the public with a platform for debate and discussion and to communicate up-to-date information concerning the latest developments in Irish urban research. Through the seminars, the Forum aims to generate debate amongst participants in relation to the broad social, economic, physical, cultural, and environmental challenges facing urban areas while taking care to ensure that the debate is grounded in the particular experience of contemporary Irish urban environments and in Irish urban policy.

The forum hopes to represent a platform for:

•  Discussion - to communicate information/research findings concerning the most recent developments in Irish Urban Studies

•  Debate - concerning issues, policies and theories affecting the balanced development of urban areas

•  Exchange of information/perspectives – multiple perspectives are presented in order to inform a broader perspective

•  Interaction – between postgraduate research students, academics, practitioners, community representatives, public officials and other urban commentators. This is achieved through group discussion, one-to-one discussion and plenary sessions.

•  Promotion of inter-institutional discussion and debate in relation to contemporary Irish urban issues

•  Opportunity – for postgraduate students to present their reserach methodologies, theories, findings etc. to the annual FIUS postgraduate seminar and to write a published working paper article for Progress in Irish Urban Studies.