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For some, education lies within the real world, where ideas and practice are bound together to spur creativity. Such work occurs outside universities — institutions that feed into a neoliberal system which commodifies art and creative practice. In this monthly Director's Note, Christopher Newfield examines the perceived binary between our educational system and creativity.

This report examines the realities beneath the language of “levelling up”, competitiveness and renewal. It argues that UK freeports must be understood not simply as experimental economic tools, but as an increasingly common spatial strategy in which legal, political and institutional norms are selectively reworked.