{"id":354,"date":"2005-10-21T10:41:07","date_gmt":"2005-10-21T14:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=354"},"modified":"2005-10-23T11:07:16","modified_gmt":"2005-10-23T15:07:16","slug":"creative-class-inaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Creative Class Inaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fast Company has an intriguing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/articles\/2005\/11\/fastcities_florida.html\">interview<\/a> with Richard Florida, author of <em>The Flight of the Creative Class<\/em> and moving force behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeclass.org\/\">CreativeClass.org<\/a> (which to be honest I&#8217;ve not paid particular attention). Considering I responded to a Nussbaum <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/innovate\/NussbaumOnDesign\/archives\/2005\/10\/google_vs_intel.html#comments\">blog entry<\/a> this morning with my take on how uninformed the industrial design community seems to be, I thought this particular comment by Florida interesting: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think our {Western} education system brings people together who might not otherwise interact, and in that more social sense it can be an extremely useful incubator. But our K-12 system, and even our universities now to some extent, are still stuck in an industrial-age mindset. Churning out factory workers for assembly lines served us very well 50 years ago; in the creative economy, it&#8217;s a recipe for stagnation, not success.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> I&#8217;d point out that even the so-called &#8220;creative&#8221; disciplines are churning out factory laborers; people so focused on the minutiae they don&#8217;t see the big picture. How else can anyone otherwise explain the dumbfounding lack of understanding for intellectual property laws that directly affect anyone involved in a creative pursuit? I don&#8217;t blame the system &#8211; the schools that determine the curriculum or the corporations that take advantage of the uninformed. We &#8220;creative&#8221;&#8216;s  (and also those who aren&#8217;t actively employed in a creative field but are none-the-less engaged in creative pursuits) have no one to blame but ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast Company has an intriguing interview with Richard Florida, author of The Flight of the Creative Class and moving force behind CreativeClass.org (which to be honest I&#8217;ve not paid particular attention). Considering I responded to a Nussbaum blog entry this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=354\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}