tci 2015 investing for a creative region
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Investing for a Creative RegionMadeline Smith, The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, UK
Parallel Session 1.3: Shaping Creative Economy through Clusters
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The Highlands and Is-lands
90 inhabited islands
Scattered small towns:2,000 – 10,000 people
Covers half of Scot-land
500,000 people
One city: Inverness population 70,000
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Creative Futures Part-nership
• Design Innovation re-search since 2010
• Partnership approach• Communities, business,
research teaching
• Create a flourishing re-gion
• More than economic development
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Complex, “wicked” or “nutty problems” entered the commercial lexicon and professional practice for designers: they focused upon multiple variables, temporal as well as spatial variables, computers or digital interactions and behaviours that fed back into the core “problem”.
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Evolution: Method & processUsers, stakeholders and collaboration
Increasingly human behaviour became the central focus of such “wicked problems”…
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So, if engineers solve problems, then design-ers…
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… are fashioning engagements between people and things…
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• Innovation from the edge• Innovation from tradition• Distributed city• Creative Collaborations
(Tourism, Malt Whisky, Digital Health)
Research– with an im-pact
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Creative Industries - The Design Network
Supporting a flourishing Design Community in the Highlands and Islands
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What is the Design Network?
The Vision
An internationally-connected, entrepreneurial design and design research community within the Highlands and Islands.
The people, enterprises and communities that transform [traditional and contemporary] cul-tural skills, knowledge and ideas into econom-ically productive goods, services and places. Beate Becker, Director Designing Industry, Mass College of Art and Design
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Delivered through a vibrant programme linking businesses and communities with Academia
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Xpo North: the Design Panel
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Xpo North: People, GSA international connections, opportunities
“Inspiring and encouraging. I am inspired with such a world class event on my doorstep.”Avalon Santos WilmottArt Director and Graphic Designer
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Design on the Road Events
- Strategic skills for design consulting, Inverness- Preparing for Art School, Inverness- Bespoke, boutique and international, Oban- Exploiting creativity with software tools, Shetland- 3D printing workshop in Moray
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Cluster for commu-nity
- Who is out there? Database of designers in H&I
- Bringing people together engaged with approx 200 people so far
- Engaging businessdeveloping internships, student projects, mentoring with big business, collaborative opportunities
- School Engagement plan- Cross sector - Working with other CI trade
networks- International connections - Participation in
Pixel Lab , Dutch design week
- More than economic return
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Madeline [email protected]