Creativity Crisis, Crisis Creativity
alfrehn for Nurope
1.6. 2009

Joseph Mallord
William Turner:
“The Morning after
the Deluge”
(ca. 1843)

Did creativity cause the crisis?
Innovative financial products
A culture of creative consumption
The desire for novelty
The feeling that everything was possible

After the Crisis
Presenting the new solutions
(same as the old solutions)

“Creativity will save the economy!”

“Culture will save the economy!”

“We need innovation!”

“We need new ways of thinking!”

Against Romanticized Views

N EW S F LA S H !
In many ways, the creative
economy is complicit in the
financial crisis. Consider...

The booming art econmy

Designing the excess

Credit-financed boutique
everything

A Time For Responsibility

So what now?

Re-Evaluating Creativity

Against neophilia

Designing For the Age of No
Products

A Cultural Economy of Less?

Sustainability and
the Creative Economy?
Or, Do We Need Another Opera House?

The Need For Leadership

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