James Heartfield

James Heartfield writes and lectures on economic regeneration. He is also a director of Audacity.org, campaigning for the building of new homes.

Heartfield writes for "The Times Higher Education Supplement", Spiked Online, and "Blueprint." Heartfield has had articles published in the "Telegraph", "The Times", the "Architects' Journal," "Art Review," "Review of Radical Political Economy," and "Cultural Trends".

Heartfield has been critical of government policies on the creative industries, talking and writing on the illusions of the knowledge economy. In May 2006, with Julia Svetlichnaja he interviewed the Russian dissident, Alexander Litvinenko. The interviews were only published after Litvinenko's death.

Publications

* [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1906496102 "Green Capitalism: manufacturing scarcity in an age of abundance"] (Openmute, 2008)
* "Let's Build! Why we need Five Million Homes in the next 10 Years" (Audacity, 2006)
* [http://www.nesta.org.uk/escape-the-creative-ghetto/ "Escape the Creative Ghetto,"] with Chris Powell, NESTA, 2006
* [http://www.design4design.com/broadsides/creative.pdf "Creativity Gap"] Blueprint, 2005
* "The "Death of the Subject" Explained" (Sheffield, 2002)
* "Great Expectations: the creative industries in the New Economy" (London, 2000)
* "Need and Desire in the Post-material Economy" (Sheffield 1998)
* "Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age"co-editor with Ian Abley (London, 2002).

Recent papers

* [http://www.heartfield.org/CreativeClusters.jpgThe Golden Age or a Lot of Hot Air?] A debate with Arts Council Chief Executive Peter Hewitt and journalist Dan Atkinson at the [http://www.creativeclusters.com/modules/eventsystem/?fct=viewsession&id=231 Creative Clusters conference,] London, 14 November 2007
* [http://www.audacity.org/APO-04.htm Town and Country] All Planned Out: the Worldwide Impact of the TCPA, Building Centre, 19 May 2007
* [http://www.wmin.ac.uk/sshl/page-2404 Interviewing Litvinenko] Centre for the Study of Democracy, Westminster University, 30 January 2007
* [http://www.johnkeane.net/dc/dc_heartfield.htm Sprawl] ,Democracy Club, 14 November 2006
* [http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/centres/suburban_studies/events/index.shtml Superbia] , Kingston University Suburban Studies Dayschool, September 2006
* [http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CAFFC.htm Farewell to the City] Rural Futures conference, Plymouth, 6 April 2006

Personal life

Heartfield was born in Leeds in 1961. He lives in north London and is married with two daughters, Holly and Daisy.

External links

* [http://www.heartfield.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk His blog]
* [http://www.facebook.com/people/James_Heartfield/756513153 Facebook page]
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/25/npoison225.xml&site=5&page=0 Telegraph article on Litvinenko]