XR stories as innovation and cultural intermediary for the creative industries

Q1 Social Sciences

City, Culture and Society Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI:10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100653

Nina Willment , Jon Swords , Damian Murphy

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This paper extends scholarship on innovation intermediation within the creative industries, through case study analysis of XR Stories. XR Stories is a Yorkshire and the Humber based Creative Industries Cluster Partnerships (CICP) programme, focused on providing access to expertise, infrastructure and facilities to creatives working in extended reality. Through its exploration of the different ways in which R&D was facilitated, the paper positions XR Stories as an important cultural and innovation intermediary in delivering the aims of the CICP. It does this through demonstrating the varied examples of cultural and innovation intermediation which XR Stories undertook. The paper also draws upon Foucault's notion of the dispositif, adopting the term ‘CICP dispositif’ to acknowledge the wider context of R&D intermediation within which XR Stories operated. It explores how XR Stories's intermediation work was shaped by the CICP dispositif, including how it is constrained by CICP aims, but also actively developed new forms of activities outside of the CICP limitations.

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XR故事作为创意产业的创新和文化中介

本文通过对XR故事的案例分析，拓展了对创意产业创新中介的研究。XR Stories是基于约克郡和亨伯的创意产业集群合作伙伴关系（CICP）计划，专注于为在扩展现实中工作的创意人员提供专业知识、基础设施和设施。通过探索促进研发的不同方式，本文将XR故事定位为实现CICP目标的重要文化和创新中介。它通过展示XR故事所承担的各种文化和创新中介的例子来做到这一点。本文还借鉴了福柯的处置概念，采用“CICP处置”一词来承认XR故事运作的更广泛的研发中介背景。它探讨了XR Stories的中介工作是如何受到CICP配置的影响的，包括它是如何受到CICP目标的约束的，但也积极地在CICP限制之外开发新的活动形式。

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City, Culture and Society Economics, Econometrics and Finance-Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)

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