Art for Innovation

22 Jun 2015 | Blog

Blog 22 juni 2015   I The Start Big words: art and innovation. How can we connect them? Trying to define them is going to get us in trouble. So let’s broadly assume: this is about all kinds of art-forms and what they can contribute to all kinds of innovation in...

The Value of Connecting Arts and Business

26 Apr 2015 | Blog

Blog 26 april 2015   Recently there is the discussion on the authentic or intrinsic value of the arts and how this is instrumentalised or compromised when put into a business setting. So let’s see some examples of how this works. Someone from a big insurance company...

The Art of Impact III

11 Mar 2015 | Blog

Blog 11 maart 2015 The discussion on public value of culture is here to stay Revaluing culture is the name of a publication last week by the Scientific Council for Government Policy (www.wrr.nl) in the Netherlands. It was received well within the cultural sector...

The Art of Innovation

2 Feb 2015 | Blog

Blog 2 februari 2015 This blog is inspired by a book: The Innovators by Walter Isaacson. It has some 600 pages on the invention of computers and the internet. I am not going to do a summary here, that is impossible. There are so many people and stories involved in the...

The art of impact II, or what culture could learn from sports

30 Dec 2014 | Blog

Blog 30 december 2014 The arts and the sports sometimes compete on their societal impact. The sports claim cooperation, socal cohesion, learning to deal with failure and building resilience as effects of sport activity, especially through club activity. Culture claims...

Creativity as the new ideology?

20 Dec 2014 | Blog

Blog 20 december 2014 Everybody loves creativity these days. There is even a whole industry sector that names itself the creative industries. Apparently creativity is in vogue. If we look at the concept of creativity it has (at least) 5 connotations. I take these from...