Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Newsweek’s Katie Paul interviews Richard Florida to find out how new ‘creative classes’ are changing cities around the world and what our chosen cities say about us. Here is the introduction: Is it just a cultural quirk that the New…
The UK government is aiming to make the country a global leader in the arts, media and advertising through initiatives including the creation of thousands of new apprenticeships and the launch of a Davos-style world creative business conference. Prime Minister…
The world of design and innovation has greatly changed in the last decade. The challenges are more complex, more intricate, and more systemic, and therefore require an increasingly holistic and multidisciplinary approach, especially in education. Or in the words of…
I recently interviewed Prof. Yrjö Sotamaa, President of the University of Art and Design Helsinki. Sotamaa is the man behind the initiative to start a new Innovation University in Finland, by bringing together three Finnish top universities: the University of…
Three publications by NESTA (the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) examine the role of the creative industries. Beyond the creative industries maps the state of the creative economy in the United Kingdom, and measures their contribution…
Just like any other innovative company in Europe, Experientia is sometimes faced with very tough immigration laws. Hiring someone from outside the EU is quite a challenge and sometimes results in us loosing out on the opportunity to attract really…
Rob Walker of the New York Times Magazine asks what so many crochet-hook-wielding, papermaking, silversmithing handicrafters are doing online and tries to prove that the future of shopping — and of work — is all about the past. The article…
A few weeks ago Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken interviewed Jonathan Kestenbaum, the CEO of NESTA, the UK Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. The interview, which is now published on the website of Torino 2008 World Design Capital in…
The latest issue of Frog Design Mind (permalink), the bi-monthly newsletter of Frog Design Inc., is devoted to identity and contain a rich group of articles on “the struggle to find new meaning in the growing landscape of design”. Here…
Via Richard Florida’s blog, I found out about a new paper on “The Creative Class and Regional Growth in Europe” by Ron Boschma and Michael Fritsch from the Max-Planck Institute of Economics in Germany. Florida summarises it as follows: “They’ve…
Co-creation is on the agenda when Copenhagen will be the centre of the world’s prominent specialists within creativity and innovation, reports Copenhagen Capacity. The 10th European Conference on Creativity and Innovation, ECCI X is to convene on 14-17 October 2007.…
A large chunk of the latest issue of Monocle magazine on the 20 most liveable cities in the world is freely available via the International Herald Tribune. All the content is linked from the introductory article “Urban Manifesto: Factors that…