Sustainable Enterprise London Festival (SELF)
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
: B - Institute of Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE)
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management : B - Institute of Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE)
- Output identifier
- 3608
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Online three-week festival on the sustainability of the creative and cultural sectors; a short film
- Open access status
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- Month
- July
- Year
- 2020
- URL
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http://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/29521/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- SELF – (Sustainable Enterprise London Festival)_x000D_
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A series of interventions and cross-disciplinary investigation built on existing research by Adrian De La Court and Siân Prime. The outcomes were an online three week Festival, a short film made available on gold.ac.uk with foundations created for this to become an annual event and a new tool for working with individuals and enterprise. _x000D_
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Research questions included:_x000D_
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•relevance of existing tools in supporting self-employed and small enterprises in the creative and cultural sectors during a global pandemic. _x000D_
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Exploring and addressing long term sustainability and antifragility for the creative and cultural sectors collaboratively, to uncover new and sustainable re-inventions of business models for a changing economic environment in a post-pandemic world._x000D_
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Features that were highlighted as an outcome of the festival is the value and impact of collaboration, dialogues and generosity to share processes. The language that resonated was one that reflected “ecology” and “anti-fragility”. The tools developed are being strengthened and refined and become more likely to be adopted into a broader range of cultural and enterprise contexts._x000D_
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SELF highlighted the need for new approaches and new ways of thinking to work with existing tools and methodologies in supporting self-employed and small enterprises in the creative and cultural sectors of South-east London, impacted by a global pandemic. Also highlighting the potential for new partnerships and collaborations. _x000D_
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Research has highlighted the precarity of creatives and creative and cultural enterprises in SE London as a result of the current pandemic. The intention is to further investigate and develop systems to provide support for enterprise and develop access and participation to tools, knowledge and networks to support individuals and organisations to rebuild and re-invent._x000D_
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The SELF Tool will be made available by a Creative Commons licence.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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