CL2019: Creative Lenses 2019 Matera Matera, Italy, April 3-6, 2019 |
| Conference website | https://creativelenses.eu/ |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cl2019 |
| Abstract registration deadline | June 30, 2018 |
| Submission deadline | June 30, 2018 |
Exploring New Business Models for Arts and Culture
Global Perspectives on Navigating Business Model Change
This conference invites contributions on the theme of business models in the arts and cultural sector. For a variety of reasons, ranging from concerns about reductions in public funding to a policy landscape centred on the creative economy, governments have, in various ways, turned to business models as a focus for intervention and as a solution to the challenges arts and cultural organisations face. While all organisations can be said to have a business model, the encouragement from funding initatives to modify business models in response to a changing external environment is not always well received by cultural workers who make sense of their practice using alternative languages. Further, the priority assigned to financial value in the management literature the concept of business models originates from is only one of the multiple types of value people working in these organisations endeavor to achieve in their work.
The financial crisis of 2008 and subsequent cuts to public support for arts and culture in many countries provides the point of departure for these developments in much of Europe. What this means is that several arts and cultural organisations are attempting to revise their business models to make up for income lost. However, further afield where the financial, political, historical and institituional contexts in which arts and cultural organisations operate are different, might we see innovations in business models that could provide inspiration for practitioners and inform academic debates?
This conference is the final event of the Creative Lenses’s collaboration project funded by Creative Europe with the intention to explore the relationship between developing new business models and sector-specific ethical codes and professional principles using practice-orientated methods.
The aim of the conference is to bring the project’s findings into conversation with scholars and practitioners from further afield to identify best practice/experience and invest in a global conversation for the future development of effective business models for this sector. To reflect the collaborative nature of Creative Lenses, both academics and practitioners will report on findings from the project.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Full papers describing ...
- Posters describing ...
Committees
Program Committee
- Person 1 Ian W. King
- Person 2 Kai Huotari
- Person 3 Mieke Renders
Organizing committee
- Person 1 Ian W. King
- Person 2 Kai Huotari
- Person 3 Mieke Renders
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to ... i.king@fashion.arts.ac.uk