Phil Jones, Cultural Geographer

• Interested in mobility, urban regeneration, creative economy– How is the process of transforming a city

managed and delivered?– What role does culture play in driving urban

change?– How are people’s embodied relationships

with urban space shaped by memories & senses?

MapLocal Project

• £40k pilot project• Smartphone app used by community

groups• Recording audio clips, photographs• Automatically tagged with GPS• Crowdsourcing the community’s

multiple understandings of their neighbourhood

Cultural intermediation project

• £1.5m AHRC, examining creative economy in Birmingham and Greater Manchester

• Community engagement in arts practices• Commissioning new art works• Creating large touchtable app to publicly

display research findings