who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

United Kingdom
Keywords creative business park,
creative management, urban study,
industrial heritage, Chinese culture
Karen Yair
Keywords cultural policy, craft,
glass-making
Liu Yan
United Kingdom
Keywords creative business park,
creative management, urban study,
industrial heritage, Chinese culture
College London (United Kingdom). Chen Xu has worked with the
leading creative economist John Howkins as the Country Manager
(China) since 2006 and later joined BOP Consulting to help to
implement the company’s international research and consulting
projects. She is now a co-founder of Shanghai 3S Creative
Management and an associate of BOP Consulting. Chen Xu worked as
a researcher on the revision of John Howkins’s book on the global
creative economy. She has also worked with Film London, Arts &
Business and China Shanghai International Arts Festival.
› Ecstaquarter on Huang Pu River: an interview with the director of one of
Shanghai's most innovative creative clusters, Creative Industries Journal,
1.3, 275-282.
Dr. Karen Yair is an independent consultant with experience in a range
of research and cultural policy roles. Initially trained as a glass maker,
Karen’s doctoral research explored the craft – design dynamic through
the experiences of makers and industrial manufacturing companies
engaged in new product development. Karen participated in the ICDHS
2010 Conference in her capacity as Research and Information Manager
at the UK Crafts Council, a role she held between 2008 and 2010.
Karen is co-author of Making Value: craft & and the economic and
social contribution of makers and a number of peer-reviewed
publications.
› CONFERENCE REVIEWS, Craft Research, 2.1, 185-194.
Liu Yan, MA studied Arts and Media Management at the Utrecht
School of Arts (the Netherlands) and holds a postgraduate diploma in
marketing from the CharteredInstitute of Marketing (London). Liu Yan
is a cultural entrepreneur who co-founded Shanghai 3S Creative
Management and Da-Tong China Desk Creative Industry, which
provide professional services and co-working office space to creative
professionals, entrepreneurs and organizations to establish
collaboration in China. Liu Yan has been a guest lecturer and
consultant in the creative industry and clustering, arts marketing and
audience development for several Chinese and Dutch art academies and
art organizations. Prior to her career in the art and culture sector, she
worked for six years in Shanghai as an account director of Pathways
marketing consultancy.