Janet Merkel
Biographic Data
| ID | 453280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Merkel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Merkel |
| SIGNATURE | MERKEL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technische Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4107-421X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Spatial Politics of Cultural Production: Negotiating Workspaces and Resisting Displacement at Industrial Heritage Sites in Berlin
Derelict industrial spaces have been crucial spatial resources for artists and cultural production for decades, often forming vibrant cultural clusters. However, these spaces are increasingly threatened by speculative real-estate development and displacement through more “productive” creative industries. The case of Alte Münze in Berlin provides empirical insight into the politics, practices, and strategies essential for preserving these heritage…
Industrial Heritage and Cultural Clusters: More Than a Temporary Affair
The transformation of industrial heritage buildings into cultural clusters has emerged as a prominent topic of academic research in urban planning, urban studies, heritage conservation, and architecture. Cultural clusters, defined as geographically concentrated cultural activities and organisations, have become a key instrument in urban regeneration, fostering economic growth and cultural development. Despite the benefits that cultural clusters o…
Cultural Governance - Kollaborative Governanceformen für eine gerechtere Kulturpolitik im 21. Jahrhunderts
Supporting open, shared and collaborative workspaces and hubs: Recent transformations and policy implications
Shared workspaces and hubs for independent workers and start-ups are increasingly becoming a subject of local and regional economic development policies as they are considered crucial intermediaries in facilitating entrepreneurial growth and local innovation agendas. However, so far policy-makers do little to address two transformations in recent shared workspace development: the growing commercialization and diversification of shared workspaces …
Freelance isn’t free.’ Co-working as a critical urban practice to cope with informality in creative labour markets
For more than a decade, co-working spaces have proliferated in cities worldwide. The paper discusses co-working as a critical urban practice because these spaces give support to the rising number of freelance workers in culture and creative industries. Freelance workers are an ‘invisible’ workforce whose impact often remains ‘hidden’ (Mould et al., 2014), who are not sufficiently protected through social welfare regulations and do not enjoy the s…
Cultural Entrepreneurship
Richard Florida: The Rise of the Creative Class
Coworking and innovation
In the aftermath of the financial and economic crisis of 2007 and 2008, a new type of collaboratively oriented workplace has emerged in cities. These coworking spaces and the associated practice of coworking exemplify new ways of organizing labor in project-based and largely freelance occupations as found in the creative industries. The focus of the chapter is to introduce the rise of freelancers as independent economic agents to contextualize th…
Arts, culture and the making of the global cities. Creating new urban landscapes in Asia
Cities compete for recognition and resources, use each other as benchmarks and increasingly see culture as the ‘magic ingredient’ to urban economic development, as Harvey (1989) asserted already in
StefanKrätke2011: The Creative Capital of Cities. Interactive Knowledge Creation and the Urbanization Economies of Innovation . Malden and Oxford: Wiley‐Blackwell
Freelance isn’t free.’ Co-working as a critical urban practice to cope with informality in creative labour markets
For more than a decade, co-working spaces have proliferated in cities worldwide. The paper discusses co-working as a critical urban practice because these spaces give support to the rising number of freelance workers in culture and creative industries. Freelance workers are an ‘invisible’ workforce whose impact often remains ‘hidden’ (Mould et al., 2014), who are not sufficiently protected through social welfare regulations and do not enjoy the s…
StefanKrätke2011: The Creative Capital of Cities. Interactive Knowledge Creation and the Urbanization Economies of Innovation . Malden and Oxford: Wiley‐Blackwell
Richard Florida: The Rise of the Creative Class
Coworking and innovation
In the aftermath of the financial and economic crisis of 2007 and 2008, a new type of collaboratively oriented workplace has emerged in cities. These coworking spaces and the associated practice of coworking exemplify new ways of organizing labor in project-based and largely freelance occupations as found in the creative industries. The focus of the chapter is to introduce the rise of freelancers as independent economic agents to contextualize th…
Arts, culture and the making of the global cities. Creating new urban landscapes in Asia
Cities compete for recognition and resources, use each other as benchmarks and increasingly see culture as the ‘magic ingredient’ to urban economic development, as Harvey (1989) asserted already in
Cultural Entrepreneurship
Freelance isn’t free.’ Co-working as a critical urban practice to cope with informality in creative labour markets
For more than a decade, co-working spaces have proliferated in cities worldwide. The paper discusses co-working as a critical urban practice because these spaces give support to the rising number of freelance workers in culture and creative industries. Freelance workers are an ‘invisible’ workforce whose impact often remains ‘hidden’ (Mould et al., 2014), who are not sufficiently protected through social welfare regulations and do not enjoy the s…
Supporting open, shared and collaborative workspaces and hubs: Recent transformations and policy implications
Shared workspaces and hubs for independent workers and start-ups are increasingly becoming a subject of local and regional economic development policies as they are considered crucial intermediaries in facilitating entrepreneurial growth and local innovation agendas. However, so far policy-makers do little to address two transformations in recent shared workspace development: the growing commercialization and diversification of shared workspaces …
Cultural Governance - Kollaborative Governanceformen für eine gerechtere Kulturpolitik im 21. Jahrhunderts
Spatial Politics of Cultural Production: Negotiating Workspaces and Resisting Displacement at Industrial Heritage Sites in Berlin
Derelict industrial spaces have been crucial spatial resources for artists and cultural production for decades, often forming vibrant cultural clusters. However, these spaces are increasingly threatened by speculative real-estate development and displacement through more “productive” creative industries. The case of Alte Münze in Berlin provides empirical insight into the politics, practices, and strategies essential for preserving these heritage…
Industrial Heritage and Cultural Clusters: More Than a Temporary Affair
The transformation of industrial heritage buildings into cultural clusters has emerged as a prominent topic of academic research in urban planning, urban studies, heritage conservation, and architecture. Cultural clusters, defined as geographically concentrated cultural activities and organisations, have become a key instrument in urban regeneration, fostering economic growth and cultural development. Despite the benefits that cultural clusters o…
Cultural Industries and Urban Development (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Facilities and Workplace Management (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)