24-06-2010

United Kingdom, London
Kings Place

Posted by: william-culver-dodds

Category: Conference/Symposium

Field: Multidisciplinary art

Hosted by CIDA for ECCE Innovation, the Symposium will explore the role of the cultural and creative industries as they take their place in a new European innovation eco-system, charged with increasing their own capacity for innovation and sharing those skills with other sectors.

Our speakers are highly experienced international leaders in the field, offering both best practice and policy perspectives:

Graham Devlin
Writer, director and cultural strategist

Sarah Iley
Vice President, programming Officer, The Banff Centre, Canada

Will Hutton
Executive Vice-Chair, The Work Foundation

Mette Koefoed Quinn
European Commission, Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry, Unit D2 -Support for Innovation

Scott deLahunta
Research Director, Wayne McGregor l Random Dance R-Research Creative

Julia Warmers
Program Coordinator for art, science & business, Akademie Schloß Solitude: Stuttgart

Anamaria Wills
Chief Executive, CIDA International, The Creative Industries Development Agency

Prof Henk Borgdorff
Director of Art Theory and Research, Amsterdam School of the Arts.

Lee Corner – Symposium Chair
Director, LAC Ltd and The National Skills Academy for the Creative and Cultural Industries

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry has identified the Cultural and Creative Industries as ‘drivers of social and economic innovation in other sectors’. The 2010 Amsterdam Declaration confirms the centrality of the role of the cultural and creative industries as a strategic sector for innovation in the economy and the recent launch of the European Creative Industries Alliance underpins this new reality.

At the heart of the creative industries, the arts innovate and change the way we see the world. They have a long tradition of appealing to our aesthetic, emotional impulses, creating symbolism, identity and meaning. Is this a capability that other sectors now need to understand and emulate?

In the 21st century market place, behavioural economics is acquiring a new primacy, undercutting traditional assumptions about rational consumer choice. Today, arguably, form no longer follows function, it follows meaning. What is the arts’ experience here that could help stimulate innovation in other sectors?

Key Themes

* Can we learn from the approaches the arts take to research and innovation?
* What is the role of Higher Education in supporting innovation in the arts?
* How do we nurture the ‘high degree of flexibility, iconoclasm and pragmatism’ characteristic of the cultural and creative sector and now necessary in other sectors?
* EU research indicates that ‘collaboration with universities is not of great interest to most service enterprises’ – do the arts offer useful alternative models for innovation?
* How do we establish an innovation eco-system that catalyses multi-disciplinary and even transnational collaborations to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of the 21st century?

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