ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates how artists bond with a city during their time in higher education, by illustrating the significance of art schools and their pedagogic networks for the development of a resilient creative city – both in terms of cultural distinctiveness and socio-economic longevity. While this is situated within the field of cultural and creative industries research, I employ economic geography theory and complexity thinking as an interconnected framework to analyse the factors influencing the relationships and processes between institutions, people and place (IPP). On the basis of this, empirical data from qualitative research on the visual arts economy in Leipzig (Germany) will be applied to this framework, as a way to meaningfully structure the data. This will allow for a linear analysis of links between IPP.
