Creative Industries Mapping Document - 1998

Creative Industries Mapping Document - 2001

Thanks!

E.g. a lot of creativity goes into the development of a new drug or car, but most people probably wouldn’t think of these items as ‘creative artefacts’ - whereas I think most people would say ‘creative artefact’ was an accurate description of a film or novel.

I’m influenced in this by my tutors on the MA in Creative & Media Enterprises at Warwick - who put it in more academically rigorous language:

“‘Creative industries’ produce ’symbolic goods’ (ideas, experiences, images) where value is primarily dependent on the play of symbolic meanings. Their value is dependent on the end user (viewer, audience, reader, consumer) decoding and finding value within these meanings… Furthermore, those who produce ’symbolic goods’ are not necessarily or nor primarily motivated by financial outcomes; if they were, as Anthony Storr (1972, the dynamics of creation) suggests, they might decide to give up being artists and become stockbrokers.’
(Chris Bilton and Ruth Leary, ‘What can managers do for creativity? Brokering creativity in the creative industries’ - International Journal of Cultural Policy, 2002 vol.8(1)pp.49-64)

There’s a separate debate to be had about whether the creative industries is a useful or valid concept per se…

I’m curious about this: why is web development considered creative, but the development of, say, a text message voting system is not? What’s special about something with a web front-end? I’m not preparing to shoot you down, I’m genuinely interested!

Richard