Teaching ‘Creativity and the Creative Industries’ at LSBU, 2019/20

This Spring 2020 I am teaching ‘Creativity: The Creative Industries’ in the School of Arts and Creative Industries at London South Bank University to Level 5 students in BA (Hons) Fashion Promotion, Fashion Media, Fashion Buying and Merchandising, and BA (Hons) Fashion Promotion with Marketing. The module focuses on the theory and policy context of …

Can artificial intelligence be creative?

The challenges to what it means to be human, which we are told arise from the development of artificial intelligence poses are manifold, not least to the idea of being creative. (Although many, not least industry body the Creative Industries Federation argues the creative industries will be one of the last strongholds of the application …

Review: The working life of David Bowie documentary

One year on, a lovely BBC Bowie documentary – David Bowie: The Last Five Years – featuring many of his close friends and artistic and other collaborators reflecting on how he worked, and how he revealed he was dying. It focuses on his last two albums, The Next Day and Blackstar, and his play Lazarus, …

Vox Pop: Towards a World Creative Economy Forum?

For a Design Week Vox Pop I was asked to respond to the question: The UK could host a new creative conference, modelled on the now defunct World Creative Forum. What should the World Creative Economy Forum do differently to its predecessor to ensure its success? My reply follows. In due course I will post …