CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED!
Faculty of Education, Office of Teaching and Learning, Waikato
University
School of Creative Arts, James Cook University
THE CREATIVE UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE
Hosted by
University of Waikato, Te Whare Wananga O Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
15-16 August, 2012
Abstracts, Papers & Presentations still accepted
Last call by July 31st
Education and research have been transformed in the
development of knowledge economies.
The knowledge, learning and creative
economies manifest the changing significance of intellectual capital and the
thickening connections between on one hand economic growth, on the other hand
knowledge, creativity (especially imagined new knowledge, discovery), the
communication of knowledge, and the formation and spreading of creative skills
in education. Increasingly economic and social activity is comprised by the
‘symbolic’ or ‘weightless’ economy with its iconic, immaterial and digital
goods. This immaterial economy includes new international labour markets that
demand analytic skills, global competencies and an understanding of markets in
tradeable knowledges. Developments in information and communication technologies
(ICTs) not only define globalisation they are changing the format, density and
nature of the exchange and flows of knowledge, research and scholarship.
Delivery modes in education are being reshaped. Global cultures are spreading
in the form of knowledge and research networks. Openness
and networking, cross-border people movement, flows of capital, portal cities
and littoral zones, and new and audacious systems with worldwide reach; all are
changing the conditions of imagining and producing and the sharing of creative
work in different spheres. The economic aspect of creativity refers to the
production of new ideas, aesthetic forms, scholarship, original works of art
and cultural products, as well as scientific inventions and technological
innovations. It embraces open source communication as well as commercial
intellectual property.
All of this positions education at the centre of the
economy/ creativity nexus. But are education systems, institutions, assumptions
and habits positioned and able so as to seize the opportunities and meet the
challenges?
This conference investigates all the aspects of education in (and
as) the creative economy.The conference objective is
to extend the dialogue about the relationship between contemporary higher
education and the changing face of contemporary economies. A number of terms
describe the nature of the contemporary capitalism of advanced economies: ‘cognitive
capitalism’, ‘metaphysical capitalism’, ‘intellectual capitalism’, ‘designer
capitalism’. The conference will explore the relationship between the arts and
sciences and this new form of capitalism. It will look at the global reach and
international imperatives of aesthetic and scientific modes of production, the
conditions and character of acts of the imagination in the range of fields of
knowledge and arts in this period, and the role of the research university in
the formation of the creative knowledge that has a decisive function in
contemporary advanced economies.
