Managing design to sharpen effectiveness

Part of the Business & Design ProgrammeAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre- DSC:q95/26234 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo

Green design The information problem

Papers from The Chartered Society of Designers/Business and Environment Programme Breakfast Briefing held London (GB) 26 Oct 1989Available from British Library Document Supply Centre- DSC:q91/04064(Green) / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo

Creative Cardiff: utilising cultural mapping for community engagement

In 2014 Cardiff University set up a Creative Economy team tasked with exploring how the university could improve its relationship with creative practitioners around the city. To explore this relationship the team embarked upon a research project to map creative industries in the city using a mixed methodology of online data collection and semi-ethnographic interviews. As the project progressed the creative economy team designed and launched a city-wide creative network Creative Cardiff connecting the city's creative populous through events, resources and a website with membership subscription. This article explores how mapping can be used to develop the university/creative economy relationship within metropolitan spaces as a contributor to the development of the modern civic university. It also explores the opportunities and challenges posed by a mapping project of this scale, taking into account debates in cultural mapping literature as to what a map actually is