James Heartfield
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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 Guardian, The Times, the Architects' Journal, the Review of Radical Political Economy, and Cultural Trends.
Heartfield has been critical of government policies on the creative industries, giving talks and writing articles, most recently on the subject of the Cox Review into the role design can play in promoting British business. In September 2005 he spoke at the Design Council on whether 'creativity could save the British economy', having published The Creativity Gap: Why Less Hype Is More Innovation In The Culture Sector in May. He also collaborated with Chris Powell at the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts on a comment on the Cox Review Escape the creative ghetto.
In April and May 2006, with Yulia Svetlichnaja he interviewed the Russian dissident, Alexander Litvinenko. The interviews were only published after Litvinenko's death.
[edit] Publications
Let's Build! Why we need Five Million Homes in the next 10 Years (Audacity, 2006), 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) and co-editor with Ian Abley of Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age (London, 2002).
[edit] Personal life
Heartfield was born in Leeds in 1961. He lives in north London and is married with two daughters, Holly and Daisy.
