Arts, Research, Innovation and Society:Content of ARIS Book #1

Gerald BastElias G. CarayannisDavid F. J. Campbell

http://www.dieangewandte.at/arishttp://www.springer.com/business+%26+management/technology+management/book/978-3-319-09908-8

Presentation: December 01, 2014.

Key Proposition of the Whole Book Series

Creativity in general and the arts in particular are increasingly recognized as drivers of cultural, economic, political, social, and scientific innovation, development and progress.

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Formal Structure of ARIS Book #1 (1)

In reference to the structure and form of the chapters, the chapters were not standardized, with the only exception that abstracts and key words were provided to all chapters.

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Formal Structure of ARIS Book #1 (2) Experimenting with content as well as form

(structure) will reveal the goal of the ARIS series, namely to explore and to pioneer new grounds at the evolving frontier of knowledge, learning and research across the disciplines. New knowledge should be created and produced in interdisciplinary and in fact trans-disciplinary arrangements and networks (“agglomerations of knowledge”).

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Formal Structure of ARIS Book #1 (3)

ARIS aims to provide further input for the international and global discourse on those themes, topics and issues that define the intellectual core of the ARIS project.

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Three Main Themes for ARIS Book #1

(1) Arts, innovation and creativity; (2) Arts, arts and the sciences,

interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary knowledge production and research;

(3) Arts, economic growth, quality of democracy and the context of society.

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Theme #1 In our opinion it is important to

liberate innovation from narrowly streamlined economic considerations and constraints.

Innovation depends on the input of creativity, and creativity is encouraged by diversity, heterogeneity, and pluralism.

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Theme #2 (1) Artistic research contributes to the

creation, formation, and development of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary designs, architectures and networks (“clusters of clouds”) of research (knowledge production) and innovation (knowledge application) that integrate the whole spectrum of disciplines in the sciences and arts.

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Theme #2 (2) Artistic research furthermore

transforms the self-understanding of universities and other higher education institutions of the arts. Artistic research connects arts universities to processes of research and re-defines arts universities as being crucial institutions for innovation systems.

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Theme #3 (1) The economy is too important to be left

only to economists. There is no sufficient innovation for the

economy, without innovation in society (and democracy) that is not being determined by economic considerations. Quality of democracy encourages a “democracy of knowledge” that supports pluralism in knowledge production and innovation.

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