The 15th international scientific conference "Culture and Creativity" took place yesterday. The remote conference was organized by the Kaunas Faculty of Vilnius University, the Institute of Social Sciences and Applied Informatics, the scientific group "Creative Industries and Innovations" and the Kaunas Faculty of the Vilnius Academy of Arts.
The conference was attended by researchers, students, professionals of cultural and creative industries, as well as everyone interested in the theories and practices of creative business, art and culture management and marketing.
The main presentations were given by Assoc. Prof. Dimitra Kanellopoulou (ENSAPM School of Architecture, Paris), who willingly shared her experience in the fields of urban planning and human geography. Prof. Dr. Berna Kurt Kemaloğlu (Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, Turkey) shared her experience of choreographic processes and how they are used to raise issues of gender and race inequality in dance. Prof. Dr. Paul Long (Monash University, Australia) spoke about the work done to represent political migrants and to achieve their individual and proportionate participation and inclusion in Australia's cultural economy.
Dr. Giovanni Ercolani's presented his latest book „The Maidan Museum: Preserving the Spirit of Maidan - Art, Identity, and the Revolution of Dignity“ in which it is explored the relationship between the art created during the so-called Revolution of Dignity - Maidan events (November 21, 2013 - February 23, 2014), and the mission of the Maidan Museum born from the ashes of Euromaidan, which aims to preserve the " The Spirit of Maidan".
The day-long conference covered the following topics:
• Actual management problems of culture and creative industries
• Contemporary challenges for cultural and creative organizations
• Innovations in the organization of creative work
• New marketing solutions for cultural and creative products
• Creative tourism and cultural heritage management
• Transformations of supply and value chains of creative industries
• Changes in the political, economic and legal environment of the creative industries
• Gender issues in cultural and creative industries
• Digital art management
• Creative projects: today's challenges - tomorrow's opportunities
Best presentations of the conference were picked:
Greta Gilvanovaitė (Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania) The Culture of Consumption and How Creativity Can Affect That
Nela Filimon (University of Girona, Spain) Exploring How Artificial Intelligence Shapes Spaniards' digital music consumption practices
Tommaso Russo, Andrea Busato (SID Scuola Italiana Design, Italy) Non-Tangible Design: The Role of Design Education in Shaping a New Era of Industrial Production
Eglė Plančiūnienė (Vilnius University, Lithuania) The Influence of Hospitality Services on the Consumption of Cultural Products
Matas Kornelijus Vanagas, Lukas Malinauskas (Vilnius University, Lithuania) Identification of Benefits and Risks of Using Chat GPT in Higher Education
Iryna Biskub (Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, Ukraine) From Toilets To Necrophilia: How Putinisms Affect Media Culture?
Giovanni Ercolani (University of Murcia, Spain) The ‘Animal Identitarium’, Art, Security, and the Creation of Identity
Xie Meilin, Narantsatsral Delgerkhuu (Mongolian University of Science and Technology, Mongolia) Field Investigation and Research on the Music Culture of the Mulao Ethnic Yifan Festival in Shiwei Ancient Village, Luocheng County
Kaunas Faculty of the Vilnius Academy of Arts was represented by: Assoc. Prof. Andrejus Repovas, Evelina Jurevičiūtė, Dr. Vaida Almonytė-Navickienė, Austė Kabašinskienė, Assoc. Prof. Remigijus Sederavičius, Donatas Inis, Neringa Grigarienė and Greta Gilvanovaitė.
