Today, I’d like to focus your attention on an upcoming symposium: Claiming Creativity, to take place in Chicago, Illinois, on April 21-24, 2010.
Forward-thinking architects will greatly benefit from attending—and actively participating in—this event. It will be an excellent opportunity to network with policy makers and colleagues from around the globe, and potentially elevate your businesses to new levels. At a minimum, your participation will give your firm inspiration for future design solutions, along with fodder for newsletters, blogs, and other promotional materials. And even better, your involvement in a more prominent role (delivering presentations, leading workshops, hosting ancillary events, etc) will raise your firm’s visibility and further emphasize its brand.
As an aside, this symposium could also inspire your staff to think bigger, globally. Just like in University, the content may inspire ideas, dialogue, healthy argument, and an ultimate esprit de corps within your firm.
Please read the description below or review their website. FYI, the call for papers began on October 28, 2009. (Deadline by Tuesday, December 1, 2009).
Hope to see you there!
BRIEF DESCRIPTION:
Creativity is a word being employed freely these days, not just in the arts, but in commerce, organizational behavior, leadership theory, and many other areas. And for good reason: The creative industries generate wealth in many forms – economic as well as cultural – and by their very nature have triggered vital discussions about the value and sustainability of education by and for artists.
Columbia College Chicago, in partnership with The European League of Institutes of the Arts, will host Claiming Creativity, a joint international symposium.
Claiming Creativity is an event designed specifically to place artists, designers, architects, other active ‘creators’ and those who teach in the creative disciplines squarely at the center of these most important and complicated conversations, along with leaders in industry and commerce who share an interest in the life of the imagination and its value to society.
The symposium Claiming Creativity will take place at Columbia College Chicago. The audience will be composed of practitioners and policymakers from all over the world. Claiming Creativity will offer presenters and other participants a practical forum for the investigation of long-standing and emerging issues in the arts and arts related fields. Through workshops, roundtable discussions and selected presentations from leading experts on creativity in the arts, commerce, science and industry, participants will share research, develop works in progress, and share their findings through this website and a symposium “journal,” published through one of Columbia College Chicago’s academic presses.
