Dear Amanda,
You have just written:
" My interest (...) is in the way properties such as creativity, which
under the conditions of the social contract were assumed to reside in
the person, are now being understood to be able to be organized
externally. Whereas it used to be that design was the tradeable
commodity, in the 'creative economy discourse', design disappears and it
is creativity that becomes the commodity."
Please check if, again, there isn't here confusion between "Design" and
"Fine Arts".
Yes indeed, artistic creativity resides within the person. Whereas, in
my understanding of Design, this is and should be an externally based
activity, of which the designer would be the chief organizer.
True, in Arts&Crafts type of production as well as in the traditional
Manufacture commissioned work, the artist-designer used to - many are
still procceding this way - sale HER/HIS "designs" as treadable
commodities. But now the design working context has changed. The new
production context no longer requires us to trade our "designs" within
the bounds of an exiguous local - one to one - market place. Rather, our
abilities are being called upon to orchestrate multiple requirements,
from all concerned stakeholders/users. Thus, it is creativity that is
being - and should be - socially "contracted" instead, in a wider - now
worldwide - market context.
A bon entendeur, salut!
Francois
Montreal
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