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

✍ Scribed by Brian Moeran, Bo T. Christensen

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 332
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Under the guidance of Moeran and Christensen, the authors in this volume examine evaluative practices in the creative industries by exploring the processes surrounding the conception, design, manufacture, appraisal, and use of creative goods. They describe the editorial choices made by different participants in a 'creative world', as they go about conceiving, composing or designing, performing or making, selling and assessing a range of cultural products. The study draws upon ethnographically rich case studies from companies as varied as Bang and Olufsen, Hugo Boss, and Lonely Planet, in order to reveal the broad range of factors guiding and inhibiting creative processes. Some of these constraints are material and technical; others are social or defined by aesthetic norms. The authors explore how these various constraints affect creative work, and how ultimately they contribute to the development of creativity.

✦ Subjects

Processes & Infrastructure;Customer Relations;E-Commerce;Facility Management;Government & Business;Green Business;Information Management;Infrastructure;Office Automation;Office Equipment & Supplies;Office Management;Operations Research;Organizational Change;Organizational Learning;Purchasing & Buying;Research & Development;Strategic Planning;Structural Adjustment;Business & Money;Business & Finance;Accounting;Banking;Business Communication;Business Development;Business Ethics;Business Law;Econom