Creative Industries

For the last couple of weeks I have attended the course "Creative Industries - Theory and Context" by Anna Dempster at Birkbeck College. I never really heard about creative industries before I chose the course, but the title definitely got my attention. Creative is something I associate with art, industry sounds more like production or manufacturing. Are there two worlds suddenly clashing? Art and Commerce?

And yes, the course was a lot about art and commerce. How artists work with people together, who do their job just to earn money. That does not mean artists do not want to earn money, but they might also have other and more important motivations behind the work they do. It was also about people who are able to found a business with their creative inspirations.

This is now probably a bit a too simplistic summary of the course content and not really academic (sorry Anna), but I got the point.

However, even more important for me was a combination from interests I always had. Architecture. Film. Advertising. Theatre. Art. Since I've never really been creative myself, I especially liked the business approach of seeing the "creative industries". Therefore, I thought I could start writing about that topic. As you might have noticed, I already reduced the areas within the creative industries and I will probably also just write about the stuff that interests me. But I definitely also honor all the people being creative in other fields. Have fun!