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Exploring creativity : evaluative practices in innovation, design and the arts
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013
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xviii, 311 pages ; 24 cm.
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9781107033436

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Under the guidance of Moeran and Christensen, the authors in this volume examine evaluative practices in the creative industries by exploring the processes surrounding the conception, design, manufacture, appraisal and use of creative goods. They describe the editorial choices made by different participants in a 'creative world', as they go about conceiving, composing or designing, performing or making, selling and assessing a range of cultural products. The study draws upon ethnographically rich case studies from companies as varied as Bang and Olufsen, Hugo Boss and Lonely Planet, in order to reveal the broad range of factors guiding and inhibiting creative processes. Some of these constraints are material and technical; others are social or defined by aesthetic norms. The authors explore how these various constraints affect creative work, and how ultimately they contribute to the development of creativity.


Table of Contents

PrefaceHoward S. Becker
IntroductionBrian Moeran and Bo T. Christensen
1 What's the matter with Jarrettsville? Genre classification as an unstable and opportunistic constructC. Clayton Childress
2 In search of a creative concept in Hugo BossKasper T. Vangkilde
3 Reconceiving constraint as possibility in a music ensembleShannon O'Donnell
4 The Ursula faience dinnerware series by Royal CopenhagenBrian Moeran
5 Looking into the box: design and innovation at Bang and OlufsenJakob Krause-Jensen
6 Creativity in the brief: travel guidebook writers and good workAna Alacovska
7 Celebrity status, names and ideas in the advertising award system Timothyde Waal Malefyt
8 Evaluation in film festival prize juriesChris Mathieu and Marianne Bertelsen
9 Restaurant rankings in the culinary field BoT. Christensen and Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen
10 Patina meets fashion: on the evaluation and devaluation of oriental carpetsFabian Faurholt Csaba and Güliz Ger
AfterwordKeith Sawyer