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• The Cultural Age Online and in the streets we encounter a more diverse range of cultures than ever before. Culture is a space in which values are expressed and interpretated. In partnership with the AHRC, Demos is hosting two seminars to investigate how policy-makers can link up with academics to think about what this means, and how the understanding of complex cultural issues can be brought into different policy areas. Researchers: Rachel Briggs Samuel Jones 8 BlogPosts 6 Themes
• Saved for the Nation Working with the Textile Conservation Centre at Southampton University, we are working to raise awareness of this pressing agenda, and stimulate deeper thought about the role of conservation amongst policymakers, cultural professionals and within the sector itself. Researchers: John Holden Samuel Jones 20 BlogPosts 5 Bookmarks 12 Themes
• Children of Europa New Europe is not a place, it’s a young person. Committees, constitutions and commissions may hold Europe together as a political project, but it is people that hold it together as a cultural entity. This project will look at the aspirations of geographical Europe’s youngest generation, focusing particular on the way they make and exchange new-media with one another. Researchers: Celia Hannon Charlie Tims 44 BlogPosts 324 Bookmarks 101 Themes
• Cultural Literacy Our identities comprise different senses of belonging to different groups at different times.  These are the cultures of which we are all a part, and our world is one of many cultures.  The problem is that there is a real lack in our skills to read other cultures.  One result is that our newspapers, media and websites carry numeorus stories about hostility between people, breeding a cycle of fear, insecurity and ultimately violence and prejudice.  To overcome this, we need a new skill: cultural literacy. Researchers: Samuel Jones 28 BlogPosts 14 Bookmarks 18 Themes
• A Perfect Storm The current relationship between culture and local governement is confused and confusing – there is no cultural system, and hence reliable evidence is difficult to come by. But that is no reason to ignore the problem of falling budgets and asset disposals. Researchers: John Holden Samuel Jones 6 BlogPosts 18 Bookmarks 13 Themes
• Social Switchboards Researchers: Catherine Fieschi Charlie Tims 2 BlogPosts 14 Bookmarks 18 Themes
• Networked Security The security of the UK has been the focus of an extraordinary level of interest since 9/11. This has given rise to new legislation, partnerships between the private and public sectors and created a plethora of initiatives, all accompanied by a vigorous public debate. Researchers: Charlie Edwards 4 BlogPosts 4 Bookmarks 6 Themes
• Creativity Projects The means of creative and cultural production are in the hands of many. The recent emergence of affordable digital technology and broadband access, combined with long term improvements in education and living standards herald the dawn of the era of dispersed-creativity. 6 BlogPosts 42 Bookmarks 9 Themes
• Culture Online (past) Culture Online has pioneered a project-based approach to bring new audiences to arts and culture using new technology. In this it differs significantly from the portal approach of many cultural websites. Demos is working with Culture Online to place their achievement in a wider context of policy development, and to articulate lessons for practitioners and policymakers. Researchers: John Holden Samuel Jones 4 BlogPosts 12 Bookmarks 8 Themes
• Demos Projects on the 2012 London Olympics The Olympics are a reflection of the world that creates them - a heady mixture of optimism, unfullfilled expectations and collective global dreams. For cities they represent an unprecedented opportunity to reinvent themselves in buildings, events and social innovations. Researchers: Charlie Tims Joost Beunderman 14 BlogPosts 126 Bookmarks 14 Themes

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