Exploring Creativity: Evaluative Practices in Innovation, Design, and the Arts

ISBN-13: 9781107033436 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 330 str.

Brian Moeran

Opis

Explores creativity and accompanying evaluative practices in a series of richly textured ethnographic case studies of creative industries.

Recenzje

'Here is ongoing cultural process - creativity, then scrutiny. All through inspired close-up ethnography!' Ulf Hannerz, Professor Emeritus, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University

Spis treści

Foreword Howard S. Becker; Introduction Brian Moeran and Bo T. Christensen; 1. What's the matter with Jarrettsville? Genre classification as an unstable and opportunistic construct C. Clayton Childress; 2. In search of a creative concept in Hugo Boss Kasper T. Vangkilde; 3. Reconceiving constraint as possibility in a music ensemble Shannon O'Donnell; 4. The Ursula Faience Dinnerware Series by Royal Copenhagen Brian Moeran; 5. Looking into the box: design and innovation at Bang and Olufsen Jakob Krause-Jensen; 6. Creativity in the brief: travel guidebook writers and good work Ana Alačovska; 7. Celebrity status, names and ideas in the advertising award system Timothy de Waal Malefyt; 8. Evaluation in film festival prize juries Chris Mathieu and Marianne Bertelsen; 9. Restaurant rankings in the culinary field Bo T. Christensen and Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen; 10. Patina meets fashion: on the evaluation and devaluation of oriental carpets Fabian Faurholt Csaba and Güliz Ger; Afterword: evaluative practices in the creative industries Keith Sawyer.