ISSUE FOUR • June 2018
/ Diversity & Internationalisation
How the Creative Fuse Project is Supporting a Diverse Creative Community
Imagine a room of local artists, craftspeople and small digital businesses, each building an octopus using Play-Doh whilst playing a collaborative board game custom-designed to help them explore planning and delivering their own arts and crafts workshops. Or picture a group of similar businesses and academics exploring how Instagram art can facilitate economic growth. These are just two examples of the workshop programme designed and delivered by Durham University Business School researchers Dr Alistair Brown and Dr Ladan Cockshut in Spring 2018, aimed at North East England-based creative practitioners hoping to improve or optimize their business practices. As a result of these efforts the University is benefiting from novel engagements with a distinctly unique, local, and diverse group of creative, digital, and cultural practitioners on an unprecedented scale.
