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| Launch of the UQP Creative Economy + Innovation Culture series |
| Date | | Sun 29 Mar 2009 | | Time | | 3:30pm | | Venue | | Queensland Terrace - Enter Level 2 through the State Library of Queensland's security and cloak room.
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Level 2 Map | | Stream | | Innovation and Invention | | Format | | Launch | | Host | | University of Queensland Press |
3.30pm – 4.30pm
Free
Join this special event where Terry Cutler launches the first two books in the UQP Creative Economy + Innovation Culture series:
John Howkins - The Creative Ecology: Where Thinking is a Proper Job
John Hartley - The Uses of Digital Literacy
The UQP Creative Economy + Innovation Culture series showcases fresh research approaches to global creative thinking, enterprise and innovation. The series links the creative and digital media fields to law, education, business and technology.
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 | John Howkins - John Howkins is a leading figure in the global development of the creative economy. His book, The Creative Economy (2001) was the first account of new ways of working that are revitalising culture, manufacturing, services, retailing and entertainment. Creative Ecologies (2009) describes creative places, neighbourhoods, companies and cities where ‘thinking is a proper job’.
John is Chairman of BOP Consultants and a Board Director of HandMade plc film company and of HotBed Media Ltd, a TV production company.
He has advised numerous multinational companies, creative businesses, government organisations and cultural agencies in more than 30 countries.
He is the Founder and Director of the Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property (www.adelphicharter.org) and devised the London Intellectual Property Advisory Service (‘Own It’).
He was associated with HBO Inc and Time Warner Inc from 1982 to1996 with responsibilities for TV businesses in Europe.
He is Deputy Chairman of the British Screen Advisory Council (BSAC). He is a Member of the United Nations Advisory Committee on the Creative Economy and a Council Member of the UK government’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. He is a former Chairman of the London Film School, Vice Chairman of the Association of Independent Producers and Executive Director of the International Institute of Communications (IIC).
He is Vice Dean at the School of Creativity, Shanghai, where he leads the John Howkins Research Centre on the Creative Economy, and Visiting Professor at Lincoln University.
In 2006 he was listed as one of the Fifty Most Important People in Intellectual Property by ‘Managing Intellectual Property’ magazine and in 2007 he was nominated #1 Creative Star in China by ‘Beijing Business News’.
He is the author of Communications in China, Four Global Scenarios for Information, The Creative Economy, CODE, Dutty’s Dare, Creative Ecologies and other books, and is a frequent writer, broadcaster and event speaker. | | | John Hartley - John Hartley is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Federation Fellow, Research Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation, and Distinguished Professor of Queensland University of Technology. He was Foundation Dean of the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT and previously the head of the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University in the UK. He has published 20 books on culture, media, journalism, and creative industries, translated into over a dozen languages. He is editor of the International Journal of Cultural Studies.
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