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Dr Cecilia Dinardi

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Dr Cecilia Dinardi

Position

Senior Lecturer in Cultural Policy

Department

Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship

Email

c.dinardi (@gold.ac.uk)

Cecilia focuses on cultural policies, creative economy, heritage, cities, urban regeneration & creative methodologies

Cecilia is Director of Research and Convenor of the MPhil/PhD Programme in ICCE. She also teaches in the MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy. Before joining Goldsmiths, she taught at City, University of London (Department of Sociology's modules: Culture and Creative Industries, Arts and Popular Culture; Researching London; Introduction to Sociology) and at the London School of Economics and Political Science (Department of Sociology's module Sociological Analysis).

Academic qualifications

  • PhD in Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science 2013
  • MSc in Culture and Society at the LSE 2007
  • BSc in Sociology at the Universidad de Buenos Aires 2005

Teaching and supervision

Research interests

Dr Cecilia Dinardi is a sociologist interested in culture and cultural policies, cities and urban regeneration, cultural work, heritage, and creative methodologies such as ethnographic filmmaking.

She was awarded the prestigious Urban Studies Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2013-2016) in a global competition, to conduct research into urban governance, cultural policies and creative cities in the global South, working with Professor Andy Pratt at City, University of London. She also won the Rising Star Engagement Award by the British Academy (2016-2017), with which she organised the Urban Cultural Policy & Creativity Platform, a series of engagement events bringing together international cultural policymakers, European cultural development agencies, and scholars.

Previously she was Research Officer (2009-2011) at City University, where she managed the Researching Cultural & Creative Industries in London database, making research more accessible to policy-makers, academics and service-providers.

Cecilia's research explores ways of connecting the formal domain of cultural policy making with the informal world of ordinary practices in the cultural sector. Focusing on both policy and grassroots cultural interventions in Argentina and Brazil, her work explores alternative ways of understanding culture and creativity in contexts of urban segregation, social inequality, poor-quality public spaces and growing informal settlements. She is particularly interested in understanding the social and political dimensions of the cultural economy of informal settlements.

She has been a member of the Creative Lab: Social Change through Culture & Creativity, funded by the AHRC Newton Fund, where she coordinated and participated of collaborative, interdisciplinary projects in the creative field with scholars, artists and activists from Brazil & the UK.

Grants and awards

Publications and research outputs

Edited Book

Hall, S; Fernandez, M and Dinardi, Cecilia, eds. 2010. Writing Cities: How do views shape words? How do words shape cities? London: London School of Economics and Political Science.. ISBN ISSN 2042-4361

Book Section

Dinardi, Cecilia. 2021. Urbanism: Creating urban futures. In: Carlos Lopez Galviz and Emily Spiers, eds. Routledge Handbook of Social Futures. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9781138340336

Dinardi, Cecilia. 2020. Re-thinking the creative economy through informality and social inclusion: changing policy directions from Latin America. In: Kate Oakley and Mark Banks, eds. Cultural Industries and the Environmental Crisis: New Approaches for Policy. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 79-93. ISBN 9783030493837

Dinardi, Cecilia. 2019. Grassroots Creative Hubs: Urban Regeneration, Recovered Industrial Factories and Cultural Production in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. In: Rosalind Gill; Andy C. Pratt and Tarek E. Virani, eds. Creative Hubs in Question: Place, Space and Work in the Creative Economy. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 299-317. ISBN 9783030106522

Article

Dinardi, Cecilia; Wortman, Ana and Munoz Hernandez, Matias. 2023. “It’s been a roller coaster”: insights from performing artists on the COVID-19 pandemic and cultural policy. Cultural Trends, ISSN 0954-8963

Dinardi, Cecilia. 2022. Performing artists need policy support. Arts Professional,

Dinardi, Cecilia. 2021. Book review: Nicholas D'Avella 2019: Concrete Dreams: Practice, Value and Built Environments in Post‐crisis Buenos Aires. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 45, Issue 2. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 45(2), pp. 398-400. ISSN 0309-1317

Film/Video

Dinardi, Cecilia. 2017. Bhering, the making of an arts factory - English subtitles.

Professional Activity

Musgrave, George; Dinardi, Cecilia; Franklin, Michael; Murphy, Oonagh and Prime, Sian. 2022. Submission of evidence to the UK Parliament House of Lords ‘A Creative Future’ Inquiry.

Project

Dinardi, Cecilia; Wortman, Ana and Munoz Hernandez, Matias. 2020 - 2022 Cultural policy during and after the pandemic: international insights into the recovery of the performing arts. Special Research Grants: COVID-19 Awards, British Academy, 2020-2022.

Teaching and other activities

Cecilia teaches in the MA in Arts Administration & Cultural Policy and oversees the MPhil/PhD programme as the Postdraduate Research Convenor. Before joining Goldsmiths, she taught at City, University of London (Department of Sociology's modules: Culture & Creative Industries, Arts & Popular Culture; Researching London; Introduction to Sociology) and at the London School of Economics & Political Science (Department of Sociology's module Sociological Analysis).

Dr Dinardi has also worked as a Consultant on cultural policy and research for BOP Consulting, advising governments and international organisations on cultural strategies and sustainable urban regeneration and conducting research on Latin American cities for the World Cities Culture Forum (WCCF) global initiative. She is also an Associate Researcher of the Laboratório de Antropologia da Arquitectura e Espaços (LAARES), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, and has been a member of the NYLON international research network for three years. She has worked for the Government of the City of Buenos Aires (in the areas of tourism development and sports), coordinated pollsters teams for a range of consultancies in Argentina, including the National Census Bureau, and has been a permanent member of the Sociology of Culture Team at the Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani (IIGG), Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Through her PhD, MSc and BSc studies, she conducted research into three main areas: culture & city branding, culture & creative industries and culture-led urban regeneration. Her PhD thesis, under the supervision of Prof Paul Gilroy, examined the politics of culture-led urban regeneration and the various contestations over the meanings of culture and heritage, looking at the past, present & future of a monumental building in central Buenos Aires through a multi-methods engagement with its material transformation into a cultural quarter.