Academic publishing as 'creative' industry, and recent discourses of 'creative economies': some critical reflections

This paper continues recent discussions on the (geo)politics of the production of academic knowledges, in relation to the recent rise of narratives of 'the creative economy'. Creativity and the 'creative industries' are increasingly common components of urban economic development discourse, especially following the release of a set of key books – most notably Charles Landry's The Creative City (2000), and Richard Florida's The Rise of the Creative Class (2002) – that have become popular among economic development planners and cultural policy makers. This paper focuses on the traffic of these books, and their authors, beyond the Anglo-American core. It also briefly discusses policy discourses interpreted from these texts. It is principally, though, a critique of the ways in which academic knowledges circulate, stemming from theorization of academics as creative producers, and of knowledge production as part of the creative economy. The article seeks to critique the means by which particular northern economic knowledges become normative, framed as universal and 'global', and are distributed and absorbed via intellectual 'scenes' and an academic 'celebrity' circuit.     

The Pedagogical Benefits of SimCity in Urban Geography Education

This article investigated the pedagogical potential of the SimCity simulation game in an urban geography course. University students used SimCity to build their own cities and applied a wide range of theories to support their urban structures. Moreover, the students critically evaluated the logic and functioning of the SimCity simulation compared to real-world contexts and urban geography principles. The students believed the SimCity activity provided them with opportunities to promote their geographic creativity, resulting in diverse, unique, and interesting cities. The findings demonstrate that the use of SimCity can be an effective tool for geography education.     

美术与感觉寻求的关系

阐述了感觉寻求研究中与绘画有关的研究,分析感觉寻求人格与绘画的复杂度、风格倾向、内容的积极性以及艺术的不确定性之间的关系,认为美术学习可能会影响到人格的发展趋势,影响其创造性人格特质的形成。     

创意产业的兴起及其理论研究探析

创意产业是知识经济时代的产物,以知识经济为基础的创意产业结合灵感、创意带来发展潜能与就业,成为一些国家特别是具有丰厚历史文化资产的国家未来发展及转型的契机。创意产业已成为城市发展理论界关注和研究的焦点。该文对创意产业的理论研究和相关文献进行了梳理和简评,结合我国发展创意产业的背景,提出需要进一步研究的问题和对策。     

Teaching physical geography at university with cartoons and comic strips: Motivation,construction and usage

This article presents the cartoons and comic strips that the author draws and has used in his teaching of physical geography at the undergraduate level since 2011. In the context of an image‐based culture, this article discusses the pedagogic goals that cartoons and comic strips fulfil: enhancing learning and creativity, associating pleasure with learning, pushing students to think ‘outside the box’ and relating the students' learning experience to a media framework popular with students. Cartoons and comic strips also answer particular necessities related to the teaching of physical geography. Using characters placed in hypothetical situations, they explain the process of doing geography and being a physical geographer.     

Another Typical Day in this Typical Town: place as inspiration for music creation and creative expression

Geographically isolated within its own State as well as from the rest of the country, and with the highest percentage of metropolitan primacy of all Australian States, Perth is a city somewhat uncomfortable with its creative and cultural identity. The city is physically peripheral to networks in the arts and creative industries that operate at the national level. And, symbolically, many in Perth’s cultural sector feel a sense of isolation. Yet, in certain cultural sectors, such as music, Perth demonstrably punches above its weight, consistently generating high-quality cultural exports. This paper unpicks this curious juxtaposition. It examines the influence of Perth—as a geographical location and a site of creative inspiration—on the music created and disseminated by local contemporary musicians who write and perform their own indie pop/rock music. I discuss the nuanced relationship between creative clustering and place, drawing on theories regarding the relationship between music and place, the notion of the music scenes and creativity and creative practices. I explore how living in Perth, a geographically isolated city, with a highly concentrated population and associated music sector, influences creative expressions, desires and inspirations, for a select group of local indie pop/rock musicians who achieved national and international notoriety with their music in the late 1990s and 2000s. Navigating isolation but nevertheless energised by strong social connections and scene participation, Perth musicians catalysed creativity in ways that contribute to evolving debates on the links between place, creativity and music.     

依托GIS二次开发竞赛的大学生双创能力培养模式探讨

大学生是我国双创教育的主要对象,面对严峻的就业形势和激烈的国际竞争环境,在当前大众创业万众创新的时代下,创新创业人才培养是大学对接国家战略的新使命。分析当前大学生双创能力培养中遇到的难题,提出依托GIS二次开发竞赛的大学生双创能力培养模式,探讨竞赛过程中创新能力和创业能力的培养方法,最终达到以GIS二次开发竞赛推动大学生双创教育的目的。     

构建地质找矿新机制的实践探索——"泥河模式"调查

安徽庐江泥河铁矿的发现和开发,实现了长江中下游地区找矿重大突破,其创立的"泥河模式"、"泥河速度"引起行内、学界、政府、社会的广泛关注。本文对泥河铁矿的发现和"泥河模式"的诞生进行了回顾总结,诠释了"泥河模式"的内涵和创新点,结合国土资源部开展的改革发展大讨论和泥河铁矿勘查开发的实践经验,揭示了"泥河模式"的意义与启示。     

Evolutionary creativity in landscapes

In biological evolution, creativity occurs in the appearance of new entities by evolutionary dynamics. This is linked to mutations and genetic drift, which cannot occur in geophysical phenomena. Biota can exhibit evolutionary creativity that influences landforms, but how does creativity (defined here as the capacity for emergence of new entities that increase the adjustedness of the landscape to environmental conditions) occur in landforms and landscapes as entities independent of biota? Creativity in geomorphic evolution does not require any sort of goal functions or purposeful innovation – just that geomorphic development is capable of producing novelties that may be better adapted (more efficient or durable) than predecessors. Independently of biota, evidence exists that landforms may develop to become more or less ‘fit' in terms of efficiency and/or durability. Thus, emergence of novel features may lead to their persistence. Emergence of novel forms is illustrated for the case of karst sinkholes (dolines), which indicates increasing geomorphic diversity over Ma and Ga timescales. A case study of fluviokarst chronosequences in Kentucky demonstrates emergence and elimination of landforms as landscapes evolve. Some of these may represent generally (as opposed to locally) novel landforms. While this article is more suggestive than demonstrative, results strongly suggest evolutionary creativity in geomorphology both tied to, and independent of, biological evolution. This occurs due to emergence of geomorphic entities that are subject to selection that tends to increase efficiency and durability. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

中部地区问题实质和创新发展的政策思考

本文从我国宏观区域经济发展布局和中部地区产业发展水平方面，讨论了中部地区问题的实质，提出了对中部地区崛起的认识，并从国家整体战略和科学发展观的高度，对中部地区发展政策定位和崛起中政策的集成与创新进行了思考，提出了中部崛起政策的创新性建议。