Ralph Schneider

The variety of existing Creative/Culture Industry/Economy reports is already large but they are sometimes hard to find. So I would like to provide you with a collection of available reports.

Please add further reports if you like. I will add them to this article.

01:  On March 2010 EU has release a report about the European structure of creative economy -> Link

02: UN creative economy report (full 360 pages) -> Link ,  (intro) -> Link

03: UNESCO German culture and creative economy report -> Link

Websites:

Kultur und Kreativwirtschaft – Deutschland … publications -> Link

This is a very nice videocast of a panel discussion at Cooper-Hewitt brought on YouTube about doing the business called design. Innovation meets design and what is in it in between.

On Frog Design I found a very interesting discussion about the future of design.

http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/the-end-of-an-era.html

Interesting because it talks about both sides.  Design is everything or everything is design and design was and will be only one part of the orchestra. And this piece has also gone its way of commoditization as engineering and other professions.
Design Thinking was and still is a good thing to talk about but as coming from engineering, all sounds quite the same. With a bit different flavor and perspective of use though.  So who is the owner of … SixSigma,Agile,DesignThinking, GoalOriented Design Process etc. ? Is that relevant? Or shall we just need to completely discuss on a different level and refocus our core of interest.

The DIT (Dublin Institute of Technology) is presenting a humidity sensitive hologram. I think it is quite cool. It looks nice and interactive though.

See video on youtube here

There are so many design definition discussions going on right now and to be honest all the time. Let’s open up the focus a bit more. How about the definition of engineering, science, creative industry and all this stuff these days? Which kind of value do the old profession names have in times where designers or design consultancies are doing a great job in taking over a lot of the tasks and responsibilities in turn key projects for new product developments, tasks which I normally would clearly define as responsibilities of engineers in the old days? And if an engineer (german engineer I suppose) would read the first pages of Tim Brown’s very insightful book “Change by Design“ where he writes about GWR and Mr.Brunel, perhaps the engineer should ask himself where he had lost this great spirit and why did this spirit went over to the designers and so called design thinkers.