{"id":9666,"date":"2015-02-27T18:01:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T18:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=9666"},"modified":"2015-02-27T18:01:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T18:01:28","slug":"ahrc-funded-report-on-cultural-ecology-including-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9666","title":{"rendered":"AHRC funded report on cultural ecology -including HE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has published a report into the \u2018cultural ecology\u2019 of the UK, and IHBC members will be interested to read about the examples within relating to the importance of heritage and the urban realm, and the \u2018reinvention\u2019 of historic buildings.<\/span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) writes:<br \/>\n<\/span>A report commissioned by the AHRC\u2019s Cultural Value Project was published today. Written by John Holden, Visiting Professor at City University, London, the report \u2013 The Ecology of Culture \u2013 argues that the UK\u2019s \u2018cultural ecology\u2019 is intensively interlinked, with many strengths, but also points of vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p>Based on interviews with 38 cultural practitioners and experts from across the cultural field, the report covers a wide variety of cultural forms, including the visual arts, dance, fashion, choral music, popular music, and film.<\/p>\n<p>The report examines the interdependencies of publicly funded culture, commercial culture and homemade culture that interact and \u2018shape the demand for and production of arts and cultural offerings\u2019. The report suggests that rather than seeing these interactions as an economy, they are better understood through an ecological approach that \u2018concentrates on relationships and patterns, showing how careers develop, ideas transfer, money flows, and product and content move, to and fro, around and between the funded, homemade and commercial subsectors\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Holden said: \u2018It is more helpful to understand culture in terms of how it is organized, rather than simply stating what it does. The use of ecological metaphors creates a rich way of discussing culture, and different perspectives then emerge. New taxonomies, new visualisations, and fresh ways of thinking about how culture operates will help promote a rich, diverse and fruitful cultural ecology.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahrc.ac.uk\/News-and-Events\/News\/Pages\/Report-on-the-ecology-of-culture-launched.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">View the AHRC press release and download the report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has published a report into the \u2018cultural ecology\u2019 of the UK, and IHBC members will be interested to read about the examples within relating to the importance of heritage and the urban realm, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9666\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9667,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666\/revisions\/9667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}