Creative Class Research Articles

Impact of creative dance on subjective well-being amongst older adults: an arts-informed photo-elicitation study

ABSTRACT As the popularity of dance as a health-enhancing activity for adults over the age of 65 has grown, experimental research that aims to identify the physical, psychological, and social impacts of dancing is now prevalent in academic journals. Consistently, the participant’s voice is left out of this research. Photo-elicitation interviews were used within an arts-informed methodology. Ten female dancers aged 66–77 years who attend the same weekly, creative dance class participated. Thematic analysis of interview transcripts revealed an overarching theme of psychosocial resilience and five sub-themes: connecting with others, challenging perceptions of aging, emotional vulnerability, the importance of creativity, and opportunity to exercise autonomy. The results offer novel insight into the impact of creative dancing on subjective wellbeing and suggest that creative dancing can foster psychosocial resilience. The relationship between creative dance and psychosocial resilience should be explored further in other creative dance groups and older male dancers.

The health and physical education creative pedagogies class: experiences and learnings from international doctoral students, scholars and curricular contexts

ABSTRACT Utilising globalisation theory, the purpose of this paper is to present our experiences and learnings as an instructor and doctoral students from an innovative doctoral pedagogies class involving international scholars and curricular contexts. A self-study design was implemented utilising interviews and focus groups which were collaboratively analysed, with the following themes constructed as findings: Teasing out the theories; playing with pedagogies; contesting curriculum; bridging the gaps; and taking off the blinders. Findings demonstrate how we were introduced to, recognised and critiqued, a variety of theories, pedagogies and curricular contexts which challenged our opinions, pre-held beliefs and dispositions. Doing so, we came to further appreciate the value of engaging in boundary crossing and interdisciplinarity to realise and consider current and future practices and possibilities. Similar doctoral teaching and learning initiatives are needed which go beyond immediate settings and expertise to explore international content, context and pedagogies from a problematising and interdisciplinary stance.

Gorgeous but dangerous: Comparing Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town’s soft-power struggles

How do deeply unequal cities in the Global South project soft power, and what are the tensions and contradictions that emerge when they do? Cities’ strategies to enhance their international appeal can be gauged through three interlocking or complementary approaches: first, leveraging the strategic value of events and associated services; second, developing iconic architecture and mega-projects; and third, making themselves attractive to the so-called “creative class.” Drawing on a brief comparative analysis of Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town, these strategies are assessed in relation to the dynamics of soft power and soft disempowerment. Although Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town share formidable resources to generate soft power, their societal complexities of crime and violence cast a heavy disempowering shadow on their innovative soft power strategies.

이러닝을 활용한 대학생 창의적 문제해결 수업의 효과분석

Objectives The purpose of this study is to verify the effect of creative problem solving class using e-learning on creative self-efficacy, routine creativity, and problem-solving ability of college students. Methods The class content used in this study was composed based on previously published problem-solving skills textbooks and reference materials. The subjects of this study were 42 students, 22 students who took the e-learning creative problem-solving course opened as a liberal arts course and 20 students who took the general e-learning course at a 4-year university in Busan. As a survey tool, creative self-efficacy, routine creativity, and problem-solving ability scales were used. Results As a result of the study, the creative self-efficacy of college students who participated in the creative problem-solving class using e-learning improved statistically and significantly, but in comparison with the comparison group, there was a statistically significant difference only in creative thinking self-efficacy, which is a sub-factor of creative self-efficacy. In addition, in routine creativity and problem-solving ability, there was no statistically significant difference in comparison with the comparison group. Conclusions These results show that creative problem-solving class using e-learning for university students did not have the same effect as the existing face-to-face teaching methods (discussion-based learning, project(problem) based learning, etc.) However, it confirms the fact that it can be of some help in making college students have the belief that they can be creative or develop alternatives to problem-solving.

ACTUALISATION OF CREATIVITY IN THE LATVIAN LABOUR MARKET: CREATIVE PERSONS AND EDUCATION

Creativity has become a characteristic feature and a driving force of the contemporary labour market. The researcher Richard Florida characterises the creative professionals as a modern basic class. Creativity is viewed as a basic feature of each person and sustainability of the state. However, this raises the question in what way representatives of creative professions become part of and compete in an environment of general creativity. How grounded is it to speak about a law for creative persons when it is so problematic to define the target group of this law and the representatives of those professions who will be able to claim relief and privileges that this law would provide? Creative persons or representatives of creative professions is a complex, non-homogeneous and problematic group, the same as students of art universities in Latvia who, although they acquire education and skills of a similar profile, is a non-homogeneous, split and essentially different group, which does not lend itself to analysis when we speak about their common adequacy to the labour market in Latvian. Does a student who graduates from the Art Academy of Latvia, the Latvian Academy of Culture or the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music become a creative person, a creative professional or a representative of a creative profession, or all of them together? Or perhaps none of the above? How adequate to and ready for the labour market is this graduate? To what extent does it matter which of the universities has been graduated and how significant it is in the future career of the graduate? The paper seeks answers to these questions and attempts to establish what connection exists between the creative class, creative people, representatives of creative professions, graduates-bohemians and students of Latvian art universities.

A Text-Mining and Bibliographic Analysis of the Economic Development Literature: 1959–2020

In this paper, I conducted a systematic review of the economic development literature from 1959 to 2020 to reveal the ebbs and flows of major research topics, combining the text mining technique with the bibliographic analysis. Topics such as “regional development” and “sustainable development” have gained importance over the decades, while “development strategy” has lost its prominent status. New topics such as “climate change” and “developing countries” have emerged in recent years. An analysis of the citation network reveals three distinctive research trajectories: One engages with the concepts of the creative class, human capital, clusters, and art and culture. Another centers around the topic of “regional development”, and a third, smaller group studies “new industrial district”. This study helps researchers understand the evolution of the roadmap in the field of economic development, properly situate their own work in the literature, identify influential citations, and discover novel research topics in need of further exploration.

Creative city

Creative self-expression is one of the highest forms of happiness. At least that’s what many authoritative sources claim. After the release of The Creative City by Charles Landry, the phrase became a trendy meme and a beacon for urban planners. It is believed that the opportunity for creativity can attract the most valuable, educated, efficient and productive residents to the city. How reasonable is this attitude to creativity? How realistic are the hopes for a ‘creative class’ (R. Florida) in the development of cities? Or is it a poetic myth, a dream of some ‘blue cities’ from an old song? The materials in this section reflect on the relationship between poetry and urban planning, the search for happiness in the nostalgic memories, in the transformation of old industrial buildings into cultural centers, and vice versa, in the transformation of old districts into centers of new technologies filled with the romance of tomorrow. An article on the dreamlike substance of such a familiar element as the staircase concludes this section.

Spatial–temporal dynamics and determinants of creative class concentration—A study on urban agglomerations in China

AbstractThe knowledge spillover effects and the uneven spatial distribution of the creative class have attracted much attention from academia and politicians. Our study provides a comparative quantitative analysis of the spatial–temporal evolution and determinants of creative class concentration in three Chinese agglomerations: Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Pearl River Delta, based on the panel data of 2011, 2012, and 2016 at the city level. It is found that the concentration of the creative class in the three above‐mentioned urban agglomerations in China has clear place‐specific differences. Results from the 2SLS regressions show that social tolerance is significantly and positively correlated with the creative class, but has no effect on the distribution of human capital in the three urban agglomerations. The level of economic development and also the degree of living convenience appear to be the main factors influencing the relative density of creative class (RDCC), while industry structure, university and Hukou all have positive effects on the RDCC in the three urban agglomerations. Moreover, the relative importance of the determinants varies according to the creative occupations. For major creative occupations, they are more inclined to concentrate in cities with high social tolerance, optimal industrial structure, high Hukou availability and qualified universities. For finance and health care occupations, cities with a comfortable climate are more attractive to them; while for management groups, cities with optimal industrial structure, high Hukou availability and adequate educational services are more attractive to them.

Pengaruh Model Pembelajaran Inkuiri Dan Creative Problem Solving Terhadap Hasil Belajar Siswa MTS Medan Tembung

This study aims to determine the effect of the inquiry learning model and the creative problem-solving learning model on student learning outcomes. This research was conducted at MTs Madinatussalam Tembung for the academic year 2020/2021. The research method is quasi-experimental. The sample used in the study was 60 students, the sampling in this study was simple random sampling. The instrument in the study used a pretest and posttest. Based on the results of the research, the results of hypothesis testing on the results of the Inquiry class hypothesis test. From the table above, the value of t(count )= 8,594 and the value of t_(table )= 2.0243 so that t_(count)>t_(table) which is therefore Ho is rejected. Ha accepted. Based on the results of hypothesis testing, there is an influence of the inquiry learning model. The results of the hypothesis test for the Creative Problem-Solving class. From the table above, the value of t(count )= 8, 683 and the value of t_(table )= 2.0243 so that t_(count )>t_(table ) which means that Ho is rejected, Ha is accepted. Based on the results of hypothesis testing, there is an influence of the Inquiry learning model and Creative Problem-Solving learning model on student learning outcomes at MTs Madinatussalam Medan Tembung.

Informality or creativity? The development and demolition of artist and IT worker villages in metropolitan Beijing

The creative industries and the digital economy have become the drivers for the metropolises of China. Despite the rapid transformation towards knowledge production in China, the understanding of the role of informalities (like urban villages) in creative cities is still lacking. This paper examines the following interrelated questions: a) why have urban villages become the cluster/assemblages for a circuit of knowledge production (e.g., digital work, media, and arts); and b) how is the assemblage of creative communities created by the growing rent-gap seeking regimes with different agency and everyday practices as shown in Beijing's artist and IT worker villages? Our investigations of the Heiqiao and Shigezhuang Villages in Beijing reveal that the Chinese rural land system has shaped the porous and interstitial spaces (e.g., urban villages as the “semi-commons” for landowners and migrant tenants) in the regime-specific community-making and is distinctive from Western models of creative cluster formation. This study refines Florida's elitist-oriented analysis where the “creative class” prefers the “quality of place,” and the city thus needs to enhance the quality of life to attract creative workers. The artist and IT worker villages, as a microcosm of the like-minded creative worker assemblage, are also sites for establishing contacts and fostering interaction in creative production. It is the quality of the public realm and networking (beyond the quality of the built environment) that shapes the assemblage of creative communities in urban villages. The networking and grass-roots alliance (as “semi-commons”) can help cope with the appropriation and provision problems facing “commons.”

The Assessment of Creative Waterfronts: A Case Study of the Kyrenia Waterfront

Nowadays, cities exhibit a high degree of culture, innovation, knowledge, and advanced technology. Therefore, talented people or the creative class have become the focal point of contemporary cities. The productivity of cities affects the economy, attractiveness, and awareness level of society. Economic, socio-cultural, and demographic changes in Kyrenia Waterfront have altered visitors’ expectations; they expect to experience adequate physical quality, practical opportunities, and a collaborative atmosphere. By surveying 247 randomly selected users and conducting site observations, this study aimed to assess user satisfaction at Kyrenia Waterfront and clarify its impacts on the immediate local context. Statistical analysis of the resulting data allowed us to determine the socio-demographic characteristics of respondents, creative environmental aspects, waterfront development aspects, and creative waterfront aspects of the Kyrenia Waterfront through the use of SPSS and AMOS. This study revealed that most respondents perceive the waterfront as a positive contribution to the area. On the other hand, the results affirmed that physical quality, practical opportunities, and integration of innovation and technology need to be improved. The process suggests that the viewpoints of locals, visitors, and creative people should be considered in planning and design decisions to contribute to the sufficiency of creative waterfronts.

SPEECH ACT ANALYSIS REFLECTED ON FEMALE DIGITAL COMIC MAKERS OF UIN RADEN MAS SAID SURAKARTA

This study discusses speech acts in the Digital Comics discourse made by UIN Raden Mas Said Surakarta students who are members of the Creative Digital Skills Development Class. The comic discourse campaigns for the importance of tolerance from both religion and fellow human beings. The digital comics were created in a creative digital skills class held by the English Literature study program at UIN Raden Mas Said Surakarta. Through digital comic discourse, female students create their ideas with the theme of tolerance. By using Searle’s theory, speech act analysis in the discourse is carried out. Searle gave further categories of illocutionary speech acts into representative, directive, commissive, expressive, and declarative categories. These categories make it easier for researchers to see specifically the intended meaning. The data from this study emphasize the utterances spoken by the main characters of the comics. In addition, images from the data become secondary data from this study because the discourse consists of two units, namely text (verbal) and images (non-verbal). The data is processed and classified into several speech act classifications proposed by Searle. The data is described by the qualitative method. The results of this study indicate that speech acts reflected from digital comics by students of UIN Raden Mas Said Surakarta have topics that refer to tolerance and maintaining harmony between religions or friends. In this work, students took three main sub-themes, namely 1) inter-religious harmony, 2) harmony among friends, and 3) harmony among neighbors. Character emphasizes the female character. The stories of the characters also affect the storyline, most of which emphasize caring and caring for each other, especially for women of different religions or different backgrounds. In terms of speech acts, from the 15 data collected, there are Directive, Expressive, and Representative with the directive portion being more dominant. The results show that 46.2 percent of the main characters show directive speech acts. Expressive speech acts show the second dominant speech act with a percentage of 33 percent. While the representative 13.2 percent in representative speech acts. While the declarative percentage shows 6.6 percent. From this percentage, it can be concluded that the use of directive speech acts is the main and most effective reference in conveying the moral message of an invitation, namely an invitation to maintain harmony. While expressive speech acts are used as speech acts that reflect empathy for others. In this case empathy between friends or religion.

Creative Clusters, Creative Economy and City Growth: A Case for Bespoke Creative Models & Policies

This paper presents indigenous creative industry issues and presents an argument for the capability of creative clusters to drive economic and urban development. The argument draws inspiration from Florida’s claim over how the creative class can serve as a tool for urban regeneration. The paper also presents a critique of the relationship between the creative class and growth; also considering clusters in the UK and their contributions to the economic development of their region. Direct observation, interviews and discourse analysis were utilized as the research methods. Findings indicate issues in a specified creative industry whilst acknowledging new and unique creative clusters. It posits that the new unique clusters ought to be effectively recognised and further developed into a proper creative hub. As recommendation, the government should do more in consolidating creative hubs by via policy announcements to help harness and grow the industry. There is also need for clear regional and national creative industry policy guidelines to provide a proper structure and bespoke framework for future growth. For City Regeneration and boosting competitive advantages of the industry, the bespoke creative policy must focus on Strategic location, Local market demand, Integration with regional clusters, Human resources, plus Private sector involvement and leadership. Keywords: Creative Clusters, Creative Industries, City Growth, Creative Economy, Regeneration DOI: 10.7176/JCSD/67-09 Publication date: September 30 th 2022

Industria (nie)zrewitalizowana. Wrocławska architektura poprzemysłowa po 1989 roku

Polish cities went through a phase of accelerated deindustrialisation after the reforms of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which in many cases resulted in the immediate liquidation and destruction of industrial plants. The case was no different in Wroclaw. Despite several examples of successful adaptations, it can hardly be counted among cities that can boast revitalised post-industrial areas that play an important role in the city’s identity and promotion. The article includes case studies for the destruction of the City Port, the revitalisation of the “Krzywy Komin” Professional Development Centre and the Browar Mieszczanski (Burgeois Brewery), as well as the adaptation of the large-scale investments of the Browar Piastowski (Piast Brewery) and the Wroclaw Industrial Park, which have the potential to become festival marketplaces. Taking into account communication strategies, the influence of investors and the so-called creative class helped to answer the question of why post-industrial implementations comparable to Lodz’s Manufaktura have not been created in the Lower Silesian capital.

Efficient Regional Taxes in the Presence of Mobile Creative Capital

We study interregional competition for mobile creative capital between regions A and B. Regional authorities (RAs) in both regions use tax policy to attract the creative capital possessing members of the creative class to their region. The resulting tax revenues help RAs finance other objectives such as the provision of one or more public goods. In this setting, we accomplish five tasks. First, we explain the significance of a parameter ζ that is related to the marginal product of creative capital. Second, we compute the Nash equilibrium tax rates when each RA chooses its tax rate to maximize tax revenue. Third, we discuss how a decline in ζ affects the Nash equilibrium tax rates. Fourth, we determine the two efficient tax rates. Finally, we discuss the implications of our analysis for a policy that raises revenue by taxing creative capital.

The effectiveness of directing optional activities as capital for small and medium enterprises based on digitalization in the crisis

Purpose: This study aims to increase and direct the capital owned by SMEs so that they are able to survive in crisis conditions. Theoretical framework: During the covid-19 crisis, companies sought innovative ways to survive. They must utilize inter-business networks, select productive activities, and adjust their marketing strategies. Agents of artificial intelligence have been utilized as a "creative class" (public knowledge). All SMEs are unprepared for the first time in economic history to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Therefore, SME managers must learn from COVID-19. Design/methodology/approach: Qualitative descriptive approach was used aims to direct choice activities with individual performance in groups, data collection techniques with surveys. The research is focused on 300 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in five industrial areas in Central Java (Semarang, Pekalongan, Tegal, and Brebes) that are directly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Findings: The findings prove that the social aspects of the company, innovation and training are significant and positive sustainability factors. So far, there have been no fundamental changes made by SME owners to manage their business. still with the old concept with dogma that has been inherited from its predecessors by looking at what has been done in the past. Research, Practical & Social implications: Further research needs to be studied more deeply about the dimensions of Directing Creativity choice in the micro and large sectors, the impact of leadership needs to be studied if this variable is included in further research. Originality/value: The results of the study indicate that the first creative SMEs are able to survive the crisis, the second SMEs have sustainable programs and the third are innovative SMEs.

Urban Waterfront Development, through the Lens of the Kyrenia Waterfront Case Study

This study’s primary objective is to investigate the fundamentals of urban waterfront development. Consequently, the study created and validated two assessment scales (questionnaires). Using SPSS and AMOS, descriptive statistics assessed data gathered via questionnaires. Current approaches to urban development are starting to bring to the fore the rich historical and cultural heritage of Cyprus. Over the past few decades, Cyprus has encountered many political, sociocultural, economic, and technological challenges. These factors consequently influence urban design and produce distinct characteristics and tendencies. The waterfront of Kyrenia is a district that notably exemplifies progressive urban design. Specifically, this article aims to assess various urban aspects of Kyrenia’s waterfront. An ancient harbor in Kyrenia and its surroundings have served as the focus of the investigation to examine the evolution of general urban features across time. Participants included members of the creative class, employees and employer groups, students, and tourists. Physical, functional, social, economic, cultural, and political considerations underlie urban waterfronts. An evaluation of the Kyrenia waterfront revealed, based on the results of many statistical investigations, that the variables reflect varying degrees of user participation. According to the study findings, most people living in the community view the selected area favorably since it offers distinctive urban features and social opportunities. However, locals think that the region will need new technologies and ideas in the future to help the creative class be more productive by generating a creative economy.

Профессиональное образование в условиях Индустрии 4.0: глобальные вызовы современности, противоречия, направления совершенствования

The authors analyzed the dialectical contradictions in the development of the institution of education in Russia, which impede the sustainable growth of the national economy, the development of society and the strengthening of Russia’s competitiveness in the international arena. In their study the authors rely on the conceptual and categorical apparatus, global patterns of social development and other basic provisions of the theory of Risk Society by U. Beck and his followers. The writing of the article was greatly influenced by the provisions of the theory of the Creative class by R. Florida and others. The methodological basis of the study was the developments, concepts and hypotheses presented in the publications of domestic scientists, reflecting the practice of functioning of Russian educational institutions. The development and justification of practical recommendations were carried out on the basis of the implementation of general scientific approaches; within the framework of a systematic approach, when writing the article, methods of comparative and logical analysis were used. Based on the results of the analysis it was proposed to apply a marketing approach for the timely identification of the needs and requirements of all participants regarding the formation of demanded specialists on the labor market; perspectives of improving the educational process for the development of cross-professional students’ skills, subsequently contributing to the formation of transprofessionals, have been identified.

What to Consider When Creating Digital-based Learning Materials for Creative Writing Class

This study aims to identify preferred aspects in creating digital-based learning materials for Creative Writing students in the COVID-19 pandemic situation. The lack of direct interaction with the lecturer and actual classroom causes them to be less enthusiastic about learning. Thus, a suitable composition of digital media is needed to solve the respective students' problems. Interactive, flexible, helpful, and easy to access are the key points of the composition. It may provide audio and video that help students to enhance their comprehension. The researchers use a descriptive qualitative approach regarding students' preferences to expose the actual data. The result shows that 89,7% of students prefer asynchronous, interactive, and flexible digital video available online as it allows them to get the virtual presence of the teacher and go through the material repeatedly. This particular media must be equipped with a microblogging platform for discussion, such as WhatsApp Group. The video-based media also provides a solution since internet connection has always been an obstacle for students holding classes with synchronized video conferencing.

Economic Performance and Resilience in Romania: Balancing Traditional and Creative Class Policy Approaches

Economic Performance and Resilience in Romania: Balancing Traditional and Creative Class Policy Approaches