TY - JOUR

T1 - Unpacking the middleground of creative cities

T2 - spatiotemporal dynamics in the configuration of the Berlin design field

AU - Lange, Bastian

AU - Schüßler, Elke

N1 - Funding Information: The authors thank the following colleagues for providing helpful comments on previous drafts of this paper: Jesper Strandgaard, André Spicer, Simone Schiller-Merkens, Suntje Schmidt and Joerg Sydow. The authors presented this paper at the European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium 2012, the 2011 Workshop by the Regional Studies Association (RSA) on ‘Theorizing the Experience Economy’, and the 2nd European Colloquium on Culture, Creativity and Economy 2013, where they received further useful feedback from various scholars. Publisher Copyright: © 2018, © 2018 Regional Studies Association.

PY - 2018/11/2

Y1 - 2018/11/2

N2 - This paper sheds a light on the middleground of creative cities, highlighted as a crucial intermediary between creative scenes on the underground and formal institutions on the upperground. Tracing the spatiotemporal dynamics in the emergence of the Berlin-based design field over time, the study suggests that a productive middleground is itself historically and spatially conditioned. Elaborating extant knowledge on creative field emergence, we show that middleground structures can emerge bottom-up through space-specific rather than sector-specific creative practices, and require active organization and configuration. They can, increasingly, also be of a virtual nature.

AB - This paper sheds a light on the middleground of creative cities, highlighted as a crucial intermediary between creative scenes on the underground and formal institutions on the upperground. Tracing the spatiotemporal dynamics in the emergence of the Berlin-based design field over time, the study suggests that a productive middleground is itself historically and spatially conditioned. Elaborating extant knowledge on creative field emergence, we show that middleground structures can emerge bottom-up through space-specific rather than sector-specific creative practices, and require active organization and configuration. They can, increasingly, also be of a virtual nature.

KW - Management studies

KW - creative cities

KW - field configuration

KW - intermediaries

KW - design

KW - spatiotemporal analysis

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U2 - 10.1080/00343404.2017.1413239

DO - 10.1080/00343404.2017.1413239

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85041094221

VL - 52

SP - 1548

EP - 1558

JO - Regional Studies

JF - Regional Studies

SN - 0034-3404

IS - 11

ER -