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Warwick Commission on the Future of Cultural Value launched

Yesterday, 23rd January saw the Warwick Commission on the Future of Cultural Value meet for its first working day exploring how we invest in our cultural life. High profile Commissioners drawn from the arts, business and academia are working together with their Chair, Vicky Heywood (Chair of the RSA) and Warwick academics to develop new thinking around cultural value, and to start a national conversation of the role of the arts and culture in contemporary society, and the ways in which the richness and diversity of the cultural ecosystem can be preserved and nurtured in difficult economic times.

Commissioners include: Nicolas Serota, Director of Tate; Roly Keating, Chief Executive of the British Library; Ruth Mackenzie, Artistic Director of the Holland Festival; Peter Bazalgette, Chairman of the Arts Council England; Deborah Bull of King’s College London; Hasan Bakshi of NESTA, to mention just a few.

The Centre is proud to be heavily involved in this exciting and bold new project, which is led by Dr Eleonora Belfiore, together with Prof. Jonothan Neelands of Warwick Business School. Dr Chris Bilton, Centre Director and Prof. Oliver Bennett, founder of the Centre are members of the Commission’s internal academic reference group, which supports the Commission with specialist expertise.

The Warwick Commission will be formally launched on the 4th of February 2014 with a public event at the British Library, which will feature a provocation by BBC Business Editor Rober Peston, followed by a panel discussion chaired by Jane Hill, BBC newsreader and TV presenter. Panelists include: Prof. Bev Skeggs of Goldsmiths University; Alan Davey, Chief Executive of Arts Council England and Richard Lambert, Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry. The panel will take questions from the public.

This event is now fully booked, but a recording of it will be available in due course on the Commission’s website. It is only the first in a series of public events aimed at fostering debate and the public exploration of questions of cultural value, which represent one of the areas of research cultivated at the Centre.

Fri 24 Jan 2014, 23:26 | Tags: News, Research news