Go on then… What are the creative industries?
In this crossposting from The Conversation, Peter Murphy from James Cook University, argues the creative industries are lacking in ambition, energy and imagination.
Creativity is the X factor of modern industry. When it slumps, our economy splutters.
Creativity is the source of the unprecedented wealth of the last two centuries. Yet we still understand very little about it.
Fascinating. And on the money.
I sometimes think that labelling people and industries “creative” almost guarantees they won’t be (or won’t be very much, despite their business cards).
Bit like how breakthroughs in cancer treatments have declined since the focus of medical research switched from tinkering to “curing cancer”.
Name it, focus on it, and it goes away…
shouldn’t it be “I’m an apple”
Absolutely refreshing – and real. Thank you Peter, a brilliant read.
We’ve been screwed ever since ‘creative’ became a noun.
we aggregate
… appropriate
… imitate
… and desecrate
… just don’t create
… or innovate
… or deviate
… from playbook mate !
Brilliant read and sadly true. Folks spend too much time shopping and watching reality tv to even begin tapping into their creative abilities, which I believe we all possess. As human beings creativity is what we ‘do’ best. It is our most powerful and valuable asset. Just look at the worlds we create and you’ll have to agree.
@creative
Yes, it is definitely “an apple.” More and more today we hear even news readers and other journalists talking about “a umbrella, a accident, a egg etc, but even more so abused is the letter L. in such words as Ostraya and Vunrable. Thee has almost disappeared in favour of, the envelope, the elephant, the acrobat.
Not to mention onclave for enclave. If we must make it French, it should be “Onclahve” but “Enclave” is English. Don’t get me back on “Lengthy” and “Firstly.”