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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Blog 4 december 2014 Art, culture and the creative industries are high on the lists of policy makers. The cultural sector is high on the list of potential (and realised) budget cuts, the creative industries is high on the list of sectors to be praised and stimulated....
De #HKU heeft een spannende vacature voor een #lector #Creatieve maakprocessen en #Ondernemerschap. Met name de verbinding maken tussen #creativiteit, ondernemerschap en maatschappelijke uitdagingen lijkt me een mooie uitdaging. Wie? #cultuursector https://t.co/syGm0vi7HE
Today we present our study to the #European #Parliament on the effects of the #Covid-19 crisis on the cultural and creative sector (#CCS) and especially our recommendations for making the sector future-proof. The recommendations ar…https://t.co/EBohBJ3IHU https://t.co/cmCnSpbN7g
De discussie over de gevolgen van #digitalisering in de #cultuur is nog maar net begonnen. Wat is het verschil in ervaring tussen #live en #digitaal? Wat kan digitaal wel wat live niet kan? Wat kan #klassieke muziek bijvoorbeeld leren van #popmuziek waar…https://t.co/POf3uGTd5v
