Dear fellow AACORNERS,


Please consider submitting to the below conference titled Creativity and
beyond (CEB). The conference will be held in Helsinki early September 2009.
It will be a prime international forum for a dialogue between politicians,
practitioners and researchers. Note also, that two distinguished Aacorners,
Nancy Adler and Steven Taylor will be keynote speakers at the conference.

Best wishes to you all,

Arja

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CALL FOR PAPERS



CREATIVE ECONOMY AND BEYOND
International Conference on the Creative Economy



September 9-10, 2009 Helsinki, Finland


Organisers

University of Art and Design Helsinki in co-operation with Turku School of
Economics and University of Tampere



The CREATIVE ECONOMY AND BEYOND conference is a multidisciplinary meeting
place for the academia, policy-makers as well as artists, creative
entrepreneurs and businesses. The conference aims to look at current
phenomena and identify future trends in order to understand emerging
possibilities beyond the creative economy dynamics.

We welcome insights from different disciplines and approaches to critically
and analytically uncover what lies beyond the creative economy. What are the
skills, research approaches, understanding and operating models that allow
us to identify and engage with these prospects from individual,
organizational, educational and political perspectives? On the other hand,
what are the implications to the changes needed in cultivating the
relationship of creativity and economy and a well-being and prosperous
society.

Special themes of the conference focus on the shift from tangible to
intangible production, future boundary conditions of organizing, emerging
business models, law and policy implications, roles of the citizen-consumers
in the markets. Further themes explore how to lead creative individuals and
processes, what can other sectors learn from the arts, media, culture and
design and what does the shift towards a creative economy implicate for
education planning, research practices and policy making.


Conference tracks are:


Track 1: Creativity in Business and Leadership


A shift from an industrial to a knowledge and experience society requires
new forms of business and leadership. The creative industries are looked
upon for answers in how to organize work in a new business environment. In
this track, the central questions are, but are not limited to the following:


- Leading creative individuals and processes: What is the role of art and
design based    methods and thinking for management and leadership?
- How can art-based competencies and services be utilized by other sectors?
- How to use creativity to lead more effectively?
- Experienced bodily knowledge in leadership: How are emotions, rhythm,
time, and space paid attention to in workplace interaction?
- The relationship between creativity and innovation: Are they separate or
how do they link together?

Track chair: Professor Arja Ropo, University of Tampere



Track 2: Creative Regimes: Immaterial Business, Future Law, and the User of
Tomorrow

The creative economy allows for, may be even demands, several strategic
shifts in the boundary conditions that define contemporary markets. Issues
regarding concepts such as usability, privacy, ownership, immaterial
production and the very nature of usage become heightened and recast in a
market regime defined by creativity and creative products, leading to
institutional, cultural and legal shifts in the way in which creativity is
incorporated into bigger structures. This track will address questions of
how creativity is ordered and organized, all of which have the potential to
change the way business activity, the nature of production and consumption,
and markets are defined in the future. We welcome contributions analyzing
these shifts and beyond.

Possible routes:

- Limiting conditions and boundaries in creativity; beliefs, ideas, and
rules of action.
- Shifts in trade and business models: ownership, production and use of
immaterial resources, goods and services
- Flows of content creation, consumption and value
- Service design and law
- Analytical work from IPR legislation to IPR regimes
- Collectives, commons and property rights: from creative commons and open
source innovation to patent pools and IPR monopolies
- Strategic uses and markets for IPR


Sessions to build on contemporary cases from 2009

Track chair: Professor Saara Taalas, Turku School of Economics



Track 3: Designing our Future: Education, Research and Innovation Policy

The shift towards a creative economy poses a demanding task for the
development of educational systems and reserach policy making. Methods
developed in the field of design have been recently proposed as a new way to
reach solutions in a world of accelerated change. This theme concentrates on
the following questions:

- The role of design in accelerating multi-disciplinary education, research
and innovation policy. Methods, contents and best-practices for raising the
next generation.
- Strategic Design: Perspectives to global, national and local problems or
organizational challenges.
- Design & Social impact: addressing complex, systemic and inherently human
challenges and sustainable development.
- The Innovative Borderlines between Design and ICT.

Track chair: Professor Marjo Mäenpää, University of Art and Design Helsinki



We welcome imaginative and interesting ideas that may not fit within the
above listed areas but that open up the conference themes from unexpected
and fresh angles. In addition to traditional scientific presentations, You
are also welcome to propose a practical presentation or creative workshop.

If you are interested in presenting a paper at the workshops, please submit
an abstract (max. 1000 words) along with a suggestion for the suitable
workshop to the conference coordinator Outi Liedes, [log in to unmask] on
29th of March 2009 at the latest. Please place the title, author names,
affiliations and contact information at the top of the title page.

Abstracts should provide sufficient information about the aims, methods,
discipline or theory in question and the results of the research. As well as
traditional scientific presentations, innovative ways of making
presentations are welcome.  The presented papers will be published
afterwards in the conference proceedings. The conference language is
English.

The time for paper presentations is limited to 20 minutes, followed by 10
minutes of discussion.
 

Deadline for abstract submission: 29.3.2009

Notification of Acceptance: 23.5.2009

Deadline for Full Papers: 31.7.2009

Registration opens: 14.4.2009



For further information, please visit the conference website at www.ceb.fi