The interplay of business, art and science
Posted in ARTS, CREATIVE ECONOMY, Home on Nov 20th, 2009
Why the arts matter
When times get tough and choices must be made, it is often the arts that lose. Why is this so? When compared to health or human service needs, the arts are often viewed as less important and therefore more discretionary in nature. But this line of thinking misses the [...]
Posted in ARTS, CREATIVE ECONOMY on Sep 23rd, 2009
Have you got a solution for arts funding in your community? If so, I’d like to hear from you. I’m looking for solutions that help foster the arts in communities, (beyond government grants and traditional corporate funding) that I hope will inspire my government, and yours, to take action, and contribute in innovative ways to [...]
Posted in Alchemy of Coaching: Working with Wisdom, CREATIVE ECONOMY, Creativity and Innovation, Home on Jun 19th, 2009
Tim Eavenson has written a thought-provoking blog about working for free, based on a story on NPR this morning profiling Ariel Horn, the head of a small ad agency in New York, who thinks he’s come up with a novel model for riding out the recession.
Horn has opened his doors to out-of-work execs to come [...]
Posted in CREATIVE ECONOMY, Creativity and Innovation, Home on Jun 18th, 2009
Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from a convenient legal fiction to the dominant fact of contemporary life. His movie traces the history of our current economic debacle back to the Middle Ages, and how current crisis is actually an opportunity to reinstate commerce and communities based in creating value for one another, rather than [...]
Posted in CREATIVE ECONOMY, Creativity and Innovation, Home on Jun 9th, 2009
John Howkins on Creative Ecologies: Where Thinking is a Proper Job (Creative Economy + Innovation Culture)
Posted in CREATIVE ECONOMY, Home on Jun 5th, 2009
If you are a regular reader of my blog you’ll know where I stand on this. Here is a thoughtful post on the subject by Beth Siegel, an authority on economic development analysis and strategy :
Is the Creative Economy Still Relevant?
Source: Citiwire.net
There’s more to the arts than their intrinsic value. The universe of drama, concerts, painting and sculpture [...]
Posted in CREATIVE ECONOMY on May 25th, 2009
I am inspired by the values and aspirations of Michael Ignatieff’s speech accepting the leadership of Canada’s Liberal Party, earlier this month.
We know that economic recovery cannot be purchased at the price of leaving anyone out in the cold. We know that economic recovery means unlocking the creativity of every citizen. … To unite our people, to [...]
Posted in ARTS, CREATIVE ECONOMY, Creativity and Innovation, DESIGN, Home on May 6th, 2009
Here is a wonderful interview by John Chase, with John Morefield, a twice laid-off architect who set up shop at Pike’s Place Market in Seattle offering architecture advice to anyone that wanted it for just 5 cents. This quickly led to a number of freelance clients who got his business off the ground.
Q&A
Can you give me a [...]
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