Projects

Center of Contemporary Art Winzavod
The Moscow School of the Social and Economic Sciences
Creative Industries Agency

With support of Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation (The Charitable Foundation for Culture Initiatives)

Present

SESSION «CREATIVE ECONOMY and TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT»
19, 20, 21 and 22 September 2009

PRESS-RELEASE:

For the first time lectures of four leading foreign specialists in a field of creative economy and creative industries -Justin O'Connor, Tom Fleming, Kate Oakley and John Howkins, will take place in Russia. Theorists and practitioners in modern fields of international Economy will answer the following questions: WHAT is the creative economy? HOW can culture bring new life and alternative income to a city? WHERE to look for inspiration? HOW can we turn an industrial city into a space for new ideas and projects?

The aim of the project is to include the Humanities into economic and social life and to use it for some innovative and anti-crisis programmes of territorial development. The innovative part of this field provides presentation of the latest achievements of leading specialists not only in Russia but all over the world, emphasizing its importance for development of regions and the whole country.

Kate Oakley is Visiting Professor in Innovation at the University of the Arts in London and at the Department of Cultural Policy and Management, City University. Kate Oakley is a writer and policy analyst, specializing in the cultural industries and cultural policy. She was one of the authors of the "Creative London" Report in 2004. Her current research interest is concerns the role of human capital in territorial development.

John Howkins is Professor at the Shanghai School of Creativity, the Executive Director of John Howkins Research Centre on the Creative Economy and Visiting Professor at Shanghai Theatre Academy, China. He is Deputy Chairman of the British Screen Advisory Council (BSAC). He is a Member of the United Nations UNDP Advisory Committee on the Creative Economy. He is one of the world’s most prestigious experts in the field of intellectual property. John Howkins is the author of the worldwide bestseller "The Creative Economy – How People Make Money from Ideas".

Justin O’Connor is a Professor of Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. For twenty years he has been working in the World’s leading universities developing theories and practices of creative industries and their role in city and territorial development. He is one of the initiators of Manchester’s Creative Industries Development Service. He is the author of the book "Cultural Industries and the City".

Tom Fleming is a consultant in the field of research and support for Creative Industries at all levels, including the overlap between culture and creativity and cities and regional development. His areas of experience include cities, creative industry development programmes for cities, concerning consulting and business planning for cultural institutions and business organizations. He has worked in over 25 countries around the world – from Moscow to Rio de Janeiro and from Beirut to Vilnius.

 

The press conference will take place on 21 September at 2 p.m. 

 

  

  

 

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