{"id":28335,"date":"2015-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aspeninstitutece.softmedia.cz\/news-article\/creative-industries-new-aspen-review-out-now\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T18:10:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T16:10:41","slug":"creative-industries-new-aspen-review-out-now","status":"publish","type":"news-article","link":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/news-article\/creative-industries-new-aspen-review-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"CREATIVE INDUSTRIES: New Aspen Review out now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<em>The term&nbsp;<\/em><em>&ldquo;<\/em><em>creative industries<\/em><em>&rdquo;<\/em><em>&nbsp;describes a variety of economic activities which can help communities achieve a number of fiscal and cultural goals. But why exactly is creative economy so important? How can cultural organizations and projects benefit both artists and business? And what is a &ldquo;creative incubator&rdquo;? These are just some of the questions our contributors consider in the new&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/review\/4-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aspen Review Central Europe (4\/2015)<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis issue&#039;s Cover Story focuses on the role that creative industries play in today&rsquo;s society. First, in an interview with Maciej Nowicki, professor John Howkins <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/4-2015-solitary-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breaks down the concept of the creative economy<\/a> and the unique challenges it presents.&nbsp; In the second story, Ann Markusen and Anne Gadwa Nicodemus overview the three different approaches taken by three different American cities towards the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/4-2015-city-creative-industry-strategies-unique-american-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">economic development driven by creative industries<\/a>.&nbsp; For those seeking to keep up with the quickly moving rhetoric of creative industries, Agata Etmanowicz&nbsp; examines the oft-used buzz term <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/4-2015-creative-incubator-a-fancy-thing-to-do\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&ldquo;creative incubator&rdquo;<\/a>&nbsp;and its importance in today&rsquo;s economic landscape.&nbsp;In the final cover story, Ji\u0159\u00ed Sul\u017eenko and Michaela Mixov\u00e1 discuss the process and future of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/4-2015-creative-industries-and-the-european-capital-of-culture-cultural-organization-for-the-21st-ce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">creative zone DEPO2015<\/a> in Pilsen.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn the Politics section, American political scientist and Stanford University fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/4-2015-i-am-pessimistic-about-the-future-of-eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Francis Fukuyama brings a sobering perspective on the future of the EU<\/a>. Two authors are addressing one of the biggest issues Europe is facing nowadays &#8211; the migration crisis. Simone Kraus assesses the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/4-2015-migration-crisis-in-germany-we-will-manage-a-chronology-of-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reaction of Germany and its leaders to the increasing numbers of incoming asylum-seekers<\/a>, while Piotr Buras wites about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/4-2015-refugees-and-central-european-illusions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">perceptions of the refugee wave in Central and Eastern Europe<\/a>. Andrew Wilson looks at yet another up-to-date topic by analysing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/4-2015-four-types-of-russian-propaganda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">four types of Russian propaganda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tA broad range of issues is addressed in the Economy section of the new issue. To name but a few, Micha\u0142 Lubina reflects on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/4-2015-why-the-dragon-could-while-the-bear-could-not\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">economic and cultural transitions of China and Russia<\/a>. Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Torreblanca then examines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/4-2015-spain-at-the-ballot-box-how-will-austerity-shape-the-result\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the crises confronting Spaniards at the ballot box this December.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn the Culture section, Benjamin Cunningham reviews noted historian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/4-2015-the-state-of-the-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Timothy Snyder&rsquo;s new Holocaust book &ldquo;Black Earth&rdquo;<\/a>, while Patrycja Pustkowiak assesses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/4-2015-strange-fruits-of-the-south\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new book on the history of the infamous Klu Klux Klan<\/a> in her review &ldquo;Strange Fruits of the South&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWe wish you an inspiring reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the new issue of the magazine focused on creative economy and urban development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14594,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-tag":[],"class_list":["post-28335","news-article","type-news-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article\/28335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news-article"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-tag?post=28335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}