1:50p Just got out of a good session about the Creative Economy. I walked in on the tail end of Robert Kloosterman’s (Univ of Amsterdam) presentation about careers in Dutch architecture design. I liked the way he characterized the reasons why architects are willing to exploit themselves for the opportunity to work long hours for less money than their similarly educated peers. He notes that, for these creative workers, “the economic logic is intertwined with artistic logic,” and that these logics ebb and flow depending on the architect’s life circumstances. It just struck me as a really nice and elegant way to describe this ubiquitous soul searching between art and commerce.
I also greatly enjoyed Karenjit Clare’s (Univ of Cambridge) paper about gendered social networks. It’s almost common knowledge that social networks help people advance in their careers, and this is especially true in the creative industries (“it’s all about who you know”). But Clare wanted to look at the ways that male social networks differ from female social networks, and if the differences between these networks produced different degrees of career advancement. A great exercise in problematizing popular notions of common knowledge.
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