Xin Gu — Monash University

Personal profile

Biography

Xin's research and teaching falls squarely within the following three areas – culture and creative industries, arts and cultural management and digital culture and society. Xin has published widely on subjects of urban creative clusters and agglomeration; cultural work, creative entrepreneurship; creative and cultural industries policy; media and city; maker culture and cyberculture in China.

External positions

Expert Facility for the implementation of the 2005 Convention, United Nations Educational Scientific & Cultural Organization

2019 → 2022

Keywords

cultural industries
creative industries
communication and media studies
cultural studies
creative clusters
culural economy
cultural policy
social networking
creative entrepreneurship
urban regeneration
Asia
maker culture

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Projects 2017 2020

1 Active

Urban cultural policy and the changing dynamics of cultural production

Grodach, C. W., Gibson, C., O'Connor, J., Gu, X. & Warran, A.

21/02/17 → 20/02/20

Project: Research

Research Output 2010 2018

12 Chapter (Book)
11 Article
1 Other Report
1 Conference Paper
3 More

Crafts community: Physical and virtual

Gu, X., 2018, Craft Economies. Luckman, S. & Thomas, N. (eds.). 1st ed. London UK: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 17-27 11 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

Makerspaces and urban ideology: The institutional shaping of Fab Labs in China and Northern Ireland

Gu, X. & Shea, P. J., 2018, In : journal of peer production. 1, 12, p. 1-16 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Open Access

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The field of visual pedagogy in China and its transformations

Gu, X. & Webb, J., 2018, Investigating the Visual as a Transformative Pedagogy in the Asia Region. McArthur, I., Bamford, R., Xu, F. & Miller, B. (eds.). 1st ed. Champaign IL USA: Common Ground Research Networks, p. 23-47 25 p. (Curated Series: Transformative Pedagogies in the Visual Domain; no. 2).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

‘Creative economy’ in China: A case study of Shanghai’s fashion industries

Gu, X., 2018, Fashion in Multiple Chinas: Chinese Styles in the Transglobal Landscape. Ling, W. & Segre Reinach, S. (eds.). 1st ed. London UK: I.B.Tauris Publishers, p. 94-119 26 p. (Dress Cultures).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review