SKILLS FOR MANAGING THE ARTS:
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AND EXPERIENTIAL
LEARNING IN SUPPORT OF YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP
AND EMPLOYMENT IN THE ARTS AND CREATIVE
SECTOR
(SMART)
CREATIVE GENERATION ACADEMY
22ND – 24TH JUNE 2016, BUDAPEST (HUNGARY)
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CREATIVE GENERATION ACADEMY:
INTRODUCTION AND LECTURE
György Túry, Ph.D.
Dean, Faculty of Communication and Arts, Budapest Metropolitan
University
June 22, 2016.
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Florida interview (2013), 7’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyryTaLLhRE
Business Week Aug. 2000
http://www.businessweek.com/datedtoc/2000/0035.htm
http://www.businessweek.com/common_frames/ma_0035.htm?/20
00/00_35/b3696002.htm
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Starting Points:
The Rise of the Creative Class. And How It's Transforming Work,
Leisure and Everyday Life, 2002.
We witness changes in the economy and culture that are as
dramatic as those during the era of the Industrial Revolution.
We live in an interregnum: the old system is no longer functional,
the new has not been born yet. Consequences?
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What are the superficial, but still important symptoms of the
changes?
Internet, globalization, new technologies, etc.
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Since the first edition of the book many dramatic events have
taken place that could have reversed the processes (e.g., dot-com
bubble, 9/11, the 2008 economic crash), BUT the opposite actually
happened: they’ve become stronger
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Florida wants to find the deep structural, “tectonic” causes of these
processes
The most important of these are the appearance of the “creative
economy” and the “creative class”
Every walk of life is influenced by these changes and the
percentage of the labor force working in the creative sector is
becoming more and more significant [30-50%]
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They are only surface symptoms of the 2008 crash that signaled the
crisis of Wall Street and the banking sector…
…the real break was that Fordist economy finally came to its end
and something new has begun to emerge: Fordist model vs.
“creative economy.”
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gentrification:
Bike paths, cafes, designer shops, internet cafes, parks, green
spaces, pedestrian spaces, diversity
post-materialist economy and politics
Hobsbawm: “[They] believed very largely in the mass labour
movement as the carrier of the future. Well, we’ve been deindustrialized, so that’s no longer possible. The most effective mass
mobilisations today are those which start from a new modernised
middle class […]” qtd. on p. xvi
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What used to be marginal and non-standard has become the
norm, the mainstream
(dress code, flexible work hours, meritocracy, value of creativity,
multiple portfolios)
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Example of the two “time travelers”: who would see greater
changes? 1) a time traveler from 1900 to 1950 or 2) a time traveler
from 1950 to today’s world?
What are the most significant changes in the first and in the second
case ?
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At first the answer seems obvious:
In the first case let’s think of the following: travel (cars, airplanes,
highways, public transport);
At home (electric appliances: radio, TV, washing machine, fridge;
shopping malls, medicine, etc.)
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BUT: the 2nd traveler would eventually easily find his/her way
around and learn how to use new technology
“On the basis of big, obvious technological changes alone, surely
the 1900-to-1950s traveler would experience the greater shift,
whereas the other might easily conclude that we'd spent the
second half of the twentieth century doing little more than
tweaking the great innovations that had so transformed its first
half.” (2-3)
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As soon as they would settle into their new environments, they
would realize that everyday life, social structures, the rhythm of life
and work was very different!
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About the creative class:
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3T;
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As a class it has no consciousness, very individual, atomized;
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Darker side: uncertainties, unpredictability, permanent
dependence on our gadgets, stress;
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Becomes the mainstream (see bobo);
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Individualism; belief in meritocracy;
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Diversity and openness.
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