The City of Austin funded the visit the past week of arts thinker and consultant Andrew Taylor, in connection with its 94-page Create Austin report and its 20-page executive summary. Taylor opened a public meeting and discussion on Wednesday, June 24, with slides and thoughts about creative eco-systems.
As he understands it, CreateAustin and the creative community are focusing on "connecting, advancing and celebrating Austin's creative life."
Taylor uses the metaphor of a garden to make points about all complex systems, including that of Austin's creative life, and he offers observations for four necessary questions, which are
- - Doesn't collaborating threaten our individual impact and ideals?
- - How can we find common ground, when we're all so different in our creative work?
- - I'm already overclocked. How can I take time to connect beyond my immediate needs?
and
- - Seems huge. Where can we begin?
Click here or on the image above to link Taylor's 43-minute slide show with audio track at SlideShare.com.
Andrew Taylor is the director of the Bolz Center of Arts Administration at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. His arts blog The Artful Manager is published by artsjournal.com.
Summary at SlideShare.com: A speech by Andrew Taylor in Austin, Texas, on June 24, 2009, on 'creative ecology' and approaches to advancing Austin's creative life. The speech was invited and hosted by the Austin Circle of Theaters, the Create Austin committee, and the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division.
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