Conceptualizing Malaysian creative hubs

Traversing normalcy to pandemicity and beyond

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ID12235233
AuthorsSuet Leng Khoo (Universiti Sains Malaysia, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume34
Issue1
Pages1-18
Publication date2024-03-07
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Trends (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0954-8963 • E-ISSN: 1469-3690
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09548963.2024.2325532
OpenAlexW4392545060
LanguageEN
References cited17

Creative hubs have garnered considerable attention as a viable place for creatives to cluster, network and bounce ideas for new cultural, creative and technological innovations. Despite this overtly recognized functionality, creative hubs are granularly variegated. There is a call to investigate its covert interior and not just its overt exterior. This paper attempts to unravel and make discernible the types of creative hubs in Malaysia, where the concept is still nascent. Fathoming this concept amid the Covid-19 pandemic is timely given the way digitalization has radically realtered the form and functionalities of Malaysian creative hubs. Based on semi-structured interviews with 6 hub managers and 95 brief interviews with hub members, this paper highlights the way Malaysian creative hubs negotiate their shifting meanings during normalcy, and further morphs amid pandemicity and beyond. The findings highlight that physical hubs are still important and community-driven organic hubs are resilient towards sustainable urban development

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