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
- 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)
- Escape the Creative Ghetto, with Chris Powell, NESTA, 2006
- 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 Ageco-editor with Ian Abley (London, 2002).
Recent papers
- The Golden Age or a Lot of Hot Air? A debate with Arts Council Chief Executive Peter Hewitt and journalist Dan Atkinson at the Creative Clusters conference, London, 14 November 2007
- Town and Country All Planned Out: the Worldwide Impact of the TCPA, Building Centre, 19 May 2007
- Interviewing Litvinenko Centre for the Study of Democracy, Westminster University, 30 January 2007
- Sprawl,Democracy Club, 14 November 2006
- Superbia, Kingston University Suburban Studies Dayschool, September 2006
- 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.