Book description
This is a major work by three international scholars at the
cutting edge of new research that investigates the emerging set of complex
relationships between creativity, design, research, higher education and
knowledge capitalism. It highlights the role of the creative and expressive
arts, of performance, of aesthetics in general, and the significant role of
design as an underlying infrastructure for the creative economy. This book
tracks the most recent mutation of these serial shifts - from
post-industrial economy to the information economy to the digital economy to
the knowledge economy to the 'creative economy' - to summarize the
underlying and essential trends in knowledge capitalism and to investigate
post-market notions of open source public space. The book hypothesizes that
creative economy might constitute an enlargement of its predecessors that
not only democratizes creativity and relativizes intellectual property law,
but also emphasizes the social conditions of creative work. It documents how
these profound shifts have brought to the forefront forms of knowledge
production based on the commons and driven by ideas, not profitability per
se; and have given rise to the notion of not just 'knowledge management' but
the design of 'creative institutions' embodying new patterns of work.
About the author
Michael A. Peters is Professor of Education at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Adjunct Professor at the
School of Art of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education in the Centre
for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne.
Peter Murphy is Associate Professor of Communications at Monash
University.
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