This workshop presents and explores initial findings from a pilot research study that considers ways in which young people’s emerging and developing entrepreneurial creative practices might challenge and disrupt prevailing discourses about creative and cultural enterprise. 

The workshop invites participants to explore insights from the study through interactive, co-creative activities, reflecting methodologies used in the research. In particular, the workshop will play with the idea of fuzzy entrepreneurship. In this context, the idea of fuzzy entrepreneurship is used to suggest that a critical understanding of young people’s entrepreneurial creative practices requires a more diverse and dialogic consideration of what entrepreneurial and enterprising activity can be and can afford. And, in turn, it is proposed that a rethink is necessary about how to support the development of more inclusive and sustainable pathways to creative work for young people, offering new models and practices that unsettle conventional approaches.  

Outcomes: By participating in the workshop, attendees will engage with ideas and methods that interrogate current boundaries of understanding about creative and cultural entrepreneurship. 

Emma Agusita is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Industries at the University of the West of England and a member of its Digital Cultures Research Centre. Her research interests include creative entrepreneurship and creative enterprise education, community and youth media, and participatory and creative methodologies.