Considering the Creative Ecology
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Austin, Texas | June 24, 2009
Considering the Creative EcologyAndrew Taylor | [email protected] | www.artfulmanager.com
But first... about my yard...
The persistent visitor
Tending the garden
✤ Demands a (malleable) vision.✤ Has a boundary
(stated or implied).✤ Already in progress
(for thousands of years).✤ Moves and grows in cycles.✤ Subject to larger
(and smaller) cycles.✤ Interconnected...you can’t just
change one thing.
The creative ecology...
Creative...
✤ expression✤ experience✤ insight✤ innovation✤ spark✤ connection✤ catalyst
SOURCE: Flickr user Martino!
Creative...
✤ expression✤ experience✤ insight✤ innovation✤ spark✤ connection✤ catalyst
SOURCE: Flickr user Martino!
...Ecology
✤ living system✤ environment✤ complex✤ interconnected✤ interdependent✤ balanced✤ evolving
Tending your garden
✤ Demands a (malleable) vision.✤ Has a boundary
(stated or implied).✤ Already in progress
(for hundreds of years).✤ Moves and grows in cycles.✤ Subject to larger
(and smaller) cycles.✤ Interconnected...you can’t just
change one thing.
A (malleable) vision...
SOURCE: Flickr user Cesar R.
Connecting, advancing, and celebrating Austin’s creative life.
A boundary (stated or implied)...
SOURCE: Flickr user Liv...
“Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame.”G.K. Chesterton
Who’s in?Who’s out?
SOURCE: Creative Columbus report, June 2009
✤ Industry Lens✤ For-profit / Nonprofit✤ Organized / Informal✤ Industry / Job Function
SOURCE: Creative Columbus report, June 2009
Who’s in?Who’s out?
SOURCE: Flickr user garryknight
✤ Human Lens✤ Amateur / Professional
(or “Pro-Am”)✤ Creator / Observer✤ Self-Description /
Observed Behavior
Who’s in?Who’s out?
SOURCE: Flickr user garryknight
✤ Human Lens✤ Amateur / Professional
(or “Pro-Am”)✤ Creator / Observer✤ Self-Description /
Observed Behavior
What I heard: “All In”(Jo Anne said so with some conviction.)
Already in progress...
SOURCE: Flickr user MR+G
Moves and grows in cycles...
SOURCE: Flickr user mandus
Adaptive Cycle
Subject to larger (and smaller) cycles...
SOURCE: Flickr user j u l i a n o
Cycles
✤ Larger (STEEP)✤ Sociological✤ Technological✤ Economic✤ Environmental✤ Political
✤ Smaller✤ Local news cycle✤ Trends, fads, etc.
Interconnected...(you can’t just change one thing)
SOURCE: Flickr user Toby Maloy
“Side” effects
✤ Unintended consequence✤ Frequent “surprises”✤ Changing the players by
changing the game
Tending your garden
✤ Demands a (malleable) vision.✤ Has a boundary
(stated or implied).✤ Already in progress
(for hundreds of years).✤ Moves and grows in cycles.✤ Subject to larger
(and smaller) cycles.✤ Interconnected...you can’t just
change one thing.
Back to “creator / observer”
...so that means we can’t do anything?
No, that means you must bring your complex creativity to the task...(And who better than a “creative alliance” to do just that?)
Four questions, four metaphors
“But doesn’t collaborating threaten our individual impact and ideals?”
Meaning is always co-created.
How can we find common ground, when we’re all so different in our creative work?
“People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole.”
Theodore Levitt, Harvard Business School Marketing Professor
SOURCE: Flickr user Cayusa
“I’m already overclocked. How can I take time out to connect beyond my immediate need?”
The Honey MushroomArmillaria ostoyae
“Seems huge. Where can we begin?”
Button by button, thread by thread
SOURCE: Flickr user Rodrigo Campos
You’ve already begun, keep going...
Andrew TaylorDirector, Bolz Center for Arts Administration | www.bolzcenter.org Wisconsin School of BusinessAuthor, “The Artful Manager”| www.artfulmanager.com email: [email protected]: www.twitter.com/artfulmanager
With thanks to my hosts:
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