Creative communities and places: between informal and formal creative networks

In this strand, we explore the relationship between current and emerging media ecologies within local networks of formal and informal creative practitioners and their linkages to places. The informal creative economy is driven by dreams, a bootstrapping process led by music and media production, but fashion, graffiti, comics, anime and other art forms are all in the mix. This creative energy may lead to the emergence of buoyant creative communities and places.  Our investigation is sited in a continuum from informal, aspirational, semi-professional networks to identified creative clusters and looks at what kinds of value are enacted and created as subjects strive to move from the informal into the formal and economically viable milieu.