Creativity and Creative Industries in Regional Australia PDF Download

Author: Phillip McIntyre
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031459725
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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This book explores the relationship between creativity, creative people, and creative industries in regional Australia through examining lived experience. The authors draw on more than 100 qualitative interviews with creative workers, and contextualise this creative work within the broader social and cultural structures of Australia’s Hunter region (located north of Sydney, in New South Wales). An invaluable resource for anyone interested in creative ecosystems as well as creativity and innovation, this book is an ethnographic study using the Hunter region as a case connected to the national and global networks that typify the creative industry. This timely addition to the Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture series gives a unique insight into creativity and cultural production.

Author: Ariella Van Luyn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429860277
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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Drawing on Australian and comparative case studies, this volume reconceptualises non-metropolitan creative economies through the ‘qualities of place’. This book examines the agricultural and gastronomic cultures surrounding ‘native’ foods, coastal sculpture festivals, universities and regional communities, wine in regional Australia and Canada, the creative systems of the Hunter Valley, musicians in ‘outback’ settings, Fab Labs as alternatives to clusters, cinema and the cultivation of ‘authentic’ landscapes, and tensions between the ‘representational’ and ‘non-representational’ in the cultural economies of the Blue Mountains. What emerges is a picture of rural and regional places as more than the ‘other’ of metropolitan creative cities. Place itself is shown to embody affordances, unique institutional structures and the invisible threads that ‘hold communities together’. If, in the wake of the publication of Florida’s Rise of the Creative Class, creative industries models tended to emphasize ‘big cities’ and the spatial-cum-cultural imaginaries of the ‘Global North’, recent research and policy discourses – especially, in the Australian context – have paid greater attention to ‘small cities’, rural and remote creativity. This collection will be of interest to scholars, students and practitioners in creative industries, urban and regional studies, sociology, geography and cultural planning.

Author: Lisa Andersen
Publisher: UTS ePRESS
ISBN: 0992451825
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 133

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As the largest ever Australian government investment in creative industries development, the Creative Industries Innovation Centre delivered tailored business services to more than 1500 creative businesses from 2009 to 2015 and provided industry intelligence and advice for public policy and peak sectoral activity. This collection gives an overview of the current ‘state of business’ in Australia’s creative industries – both as an industry sector in its own right and as an enabling sector and skills set for other industries – and reflects on business needs, creative industries policy and support services for the sector. With contributions from the Centre’s team of senior business advisers and from leading Australian researchers who worked closely with the Centre –including experts on design-led innovation and the creative economy – and case studies of leading Australia creative businesses, the book is intended as and industry-relevant contribution to business development and public policy. Content links to the publicly accessible Creative Industries Innovation Centre Collection Archive at the UTS Library, which holds material from Centre’s activities over its six years of operation.

Author: Chris Gibson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317977785
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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Creativity is said to be the fuel of the contemporary economy. Dynamic industries such as film, music, television and design have changed the fortunes of entire cities, from Nashville to Los Angeles, Barcelona to Brisbane and beyond. Yet creativity remains mercurial – it is at the heart of industrial innovation and can attract investment, but it is also an intangible, personal quality and experience. What exactly constitutes creativity? Drawing on examples as diverse as postcard design, classical music, landscape art, tattooing, Aboriginal hip-hop, and rock sculpture, this book seeks to explore and redefine creativity as both economic and cultural phenomenon. Creativity also has a peculiar geography. Beyond Hollywood, creativity is evident in suburban, rural and remote places – a quotidian, vernacular, eclectic enterprise. In seeking to redefine the creative industries, this book brings together geographers, historians, sociologists, cultural studies scholars and media/communications experts to explore creativity in diverse places outside major cities. These are places that are physically and/or metaphorically remote, are small in population terms, or which because of old industrial legacies are assumed by others to be unsophisticated or marginal in an imaginary geography of creativity. This book reveals the richness and depth, the challenges and surprises of being creative beyond city limits. This book was originally published as a special issue of Australian Geographer.

Author: Jane Andrew
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art and state
Languages : en
Pages : 602

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Perspectives on the concept of creativity are widely varied. The word is used so often by so many people in so many contexts it has become a fuzzy concept. This thesis examines how conceptual contestation surrounding notions of the economic contribution of creativity through arts and cultural activity, and the increasing recognition of the contribution of creativity to regional innovation and economic development strategies, are played out in an Australian context. It examines historical antecedents surrounding notions of value and status between the applied and liberal arts on the one hand and the arts and sciences on the other and the influence this has had on contemporary academic discourse considering creativity's role in a region's economic development. In addition to the academic discourse stemming from economic development and innovation theory, and cultural economics, the arts, design, and cultural sectors have all undertaken advocacy based research and produced reports that seek to demonstrate their form of applied creativity's contribution to the mainstream economy, hoping to justify government investment in the development of their industry sectors. The diversity of approaches to legitimising and understanding how and how much creativity and the creative industries contribute to economic development has resulted in a tangle of policy perspectives, strategies and investments to foster creativity as a means to strengthen regional economies. With the adoption of fostering creativity as a central element of South Australia's Strategic Plan, a unique opportunity arose to examine the historical antecedents, and contemporary academic theories, advocacy arguments, and policy discourse that have been influential in shaping South Australia' s current conceptualisation of where and how creativity and the creative industries contribute to the economy. The thesis examines the evolution of creativity as a key policy objective of the South Australian government and argues that it has manifested in a way that might be termed a creative quick fix. It is argued that a more holistic conception of creativity is useful as a foundation for regional development. By gaining an understanding of the origins of the tangle of competing values and policy agendas, this thesis suggests an alternative approach to conceptualising, measuring and fostering the contribution of the creative industries across all six key objectives of the South Australian strategic plan.

Author: Lisa Andersen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992451837
Category :
Languages : en
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Author: Greg Hearn
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1839101105
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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The Future of Creative Work provides a unique overview of the changing nature of creative work, examining how digital developments and the rise of intangible capital are causing an upheaval in the social institutions of work. It offers a profound insight into how this technological and social evolution will affect creative professions.

Author: John Hartley
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1446290425
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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This guide to the emerging language of creative industries field is a valuable resource for researchers and students alike. Concise, extensively referenced, and accessible, this this is an exceptionally useful reference work. - Gauti Sigthorsson, Greenwich University "There could be no better guides to the conceptual map of the creative industries than John Hartley and his colleagues, pioneers in the field. This book is a clear, comprehensive and accessible tool-kit of ideas, concepts, questions and discussions which will be invaluable to students and practitioners alike. Key Concepts in Creative Industries is set to become the corner stone of an expanding and exciting field of study" - Chris Barker, University of Wollongong Creativity is an attribute of individual people, but also a feature of organizations like firms, cultural institutions and social networks. In the knowledge economy of today, creativity is of increasing value, for developing, emergent and advanced countries, and for competing cities. This book is the first to present an organized study of the key concepts that underlie and motivate the field of creative industries. Written by a world-leading team of experts, it presents readers with compact accounts of the history of terms, the debates and tensions associated with their usage, and examples of how they apply to the creative industries around the world. Crisp and relevant, this is an invaluable text for students of the creative industries across a range of disciplines, especially media, communication, economics, sociology, creative and performing arts and regional studies.

Author: Luciana Lazzeretti,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1786435926
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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This book investigates the evolving paradigm of creative industries and creative entrepreneurship, and their related economy over time. It explores different stages of the paradigm diffusion in ‘first generation countries’ such as the US, Canada, Australia and Europe, and ‘second generation countries’ in Asia, South America and North Africa in order to identify new trends and their distinctive aspects. By adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the book develops a comprehensive overview of the composite phenomenon of the creative economy and its relationship with entrepreneurship.

Author: Jock McQueenie
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9819978890
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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As digital environments become increasingly individualised, instant, ubiquitous, and disintermediated, this book demonstrates the continuing relevance of intermediaries at the intersection of design, creativity, community engagement, and corporate social responsibility. The authors examine intermediaries as enablers of mutual benefit and offer a proactive, interventionist, and holistic approach to intermediation practice that steps beyond design thinking. By means of case studies that employ the 3C project design methodology—Community, Culture, Commerce—the authors provide an accessible introduction to intermediation at the nexus of theory and practice and signpost new opportunities for researchers and practitioners in the post-COVID environment.