Exploring creativity : evaluative practices in innovation, design and the arts / edited by Brian Moeran, Bo T. Christensen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moeran, Brian, 1944- editor.

Christensen, Bo T., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative ability in business.

Technological innovations.

Design.

Organizational behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 311 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Foreword / Howard S. Becker

Introduction / Brian Moeran and Bo T. Christensen

What's the matter with Jarrettsville? : genre classification as an unstable and opportunistic construct / C. Clayton Childress

In search of a creative concept in Hugo Boss / Kasper T. Vangkilde

Reconceiving constraint as possibility in a music ensemble / Shannon O'Donnell

The Ursula faience dinnerware series by Royal Copenhagen / Brian Moeran

Looking into the box : design and innovation at Bang & Olufsen / Jakob Krause-Jensen

Creativity in the brief : travel guidebook writers and good work / Ana Alačovska

Celebrity status, names, and ideas in the advertising award system / Timothy de Waal Malefyt

Evaluation in film festival prize juries / Chris Mathieu and Marianne Bertelsen

Restaurant rankings in the culinary field / Bo T. Christensen and Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-35802-7

1-107-23822-6

1-107-34465-4

1-107-34934-6

1-107-34840-4

1-107-34590-1

1-107-34215-5

1-139-51972-7

OCLC:

842919736