On 24 June 2010, CIDA hosted an international conference at Kings Place in London to explore the arts innovation process, focused on cross-disciplinary research, to identify and explore the potential for collaborations between research and development bodies and the Arts.
With approximately 90 attendees from across the UK and Europe, the conference (Creative Industries: The Roots of Business Innovation) promoted a more widespread recognition that, whilst some artistic research is naturally at home in the academy, much is not and that extra-academic spaces and situations are more appropriate contexts for some work.
CIDA brought together an unparalleled international line-up of speakers including policy strategists and leading experts in creativity and innovation, all highly experienced international leaders in the field, offering both best practice and policy perspectives:
Graham Devlin
Writer, director and cultural strategist
Sarah Iley
Vice President, programming Officer, The Banff Centre, Canada
Will Hutton
Executive Vice-Chair, The Work Foundation
Mette Koefoed Quinn
European Commission, Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry, Unit D2 -Support for Innovation
Scott deLahunta
Research Director, Wayne McGregor l Random Dance R-Research Creative
Julia Warmers
Program Coordinator for art, science & business, Akademie Schloß Solitude: Stuttgart
Anamaria Wills
Chief Executive, CIDA International, The Creative Industries Development Agency
Prof Henk Borgdorff
Director of Art Theory and Research, Amsterdam School of the Arts.
Lee Corner -Symposium Chair
Director, LAC Ltd and The National Skills Academy for the Creative and Cultural Industries
The conference explored the role, opportunities and challenges facing the Creative and Cultural Industries as they take their place in a new European innovation eco-system, charged with increasing their own capacity for innovation and sharing those skills with other sectors.
Graham Devlin's specially commissioned review of Arts research in and outside academia, A Place To Think: Arts Research & Innovation, was launched at the conference. This provocation piece illustrates the multi faceted routes to innovation in the creative sector that could offer new models for other sectors. At the heart of the creative industries, the Arts innovate and change the way we see the world. They have a long tradition of appealing to our aesthetic, emotional impulses, creating symbolism, identity and meaning. Is this a capability that other sectors now need to understand and emulate.
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