1.6. 2009
Creativity Crisis, Crisis Creativityalfrehn for Nurope
Joseph Mallord William Turner:
“The Morning after the Deluge”
(ca. 1843)
Did creativity cause the crisis?
Innovative financial productsA culture of creative consumption
The desire for noveltyThe feeling that everything was possible
Presenting the new solutions (same as the old solutions)
After the Crisis
“Creativity will save the economy!”
“Culture will save the economy!”
“We need innovation!”
“We need new ways of thinking!”
Against Romanticized Views
In many ways, the creative economy is complicit in the financial crisis. Consider...
N E W S F L A S H !
The booming art econmy
Designing the excess
Credit-financed boutique everything
A Time For Responsibility
So what now?
Re-Evaluating Creativity
Against neophilia
Designing For the Age of No Products
A Cultural Economy of Less?
Sustainability and the Creative Economy?
Or, Do We Need Another Opera House?
The Need For Leadership
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