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IPS Seminar
"Singapore’s Cultural Policy: Authenticity, Regulation and Stratification" |
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Assoc Prof Ooi Can-Seng
Creative Industries Research Centre
Copenhagen Business School
Date: 11 August 2010, Wednesday
Time: 10.30am to 12.30pm
Venue: Seminar Room 5-3, Level 5, Faculty of Law (Location Map)
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| Synopsis: |
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Singapore believes that the arts and culture are essential in making Singapore into a “Renaissance City”, attracting knowledge workers and branding the nation. In the last decade and a half, the city-state has indeed made significant strides towards becoming an important centre for the arts in the region. But the process of translating policies into practice has not always been smooth or coherent. The speaker will present his observations from his research, and discuss the boundaries of expressing local social and political issues through art, the status of the arts and culture in Singapore’s creative economy and the search for an “authentic” identity for a "global city for the arts". |
| About the speaker |
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Ooi Can-Seng, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Creative Industries Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He leads an interdisciplinary research project on place branding, art and culture at the School. One part of the project deals with the poetics and politics of city and country branding, including how art and culture relate to place branding. The other part of the project investigates the global art world: how is art value created? What are the roles played by curators, dealers, collectors, critics, art schools and of course, artists in the art world? He focuses on the situations in Singapore, Denmark and China. Besides the art industry, his other research interests include the creative industries, the experience economy, tourism strategies and cross-cultural management. Besides teaching in the MSc in Economics and Business Administration (International Business Studies) programme, he also lectures in the EMBA, Full-time MBA and Asian Studies programmes. Courses delivered include "International Business Environment", "Globalisation and Emerging Markets" and "Sociology: Asia from a Comparative Perspective". He is also a member of the CBS Executive MBA programmes study board. His book Cultural Tourism and Tourism Cultures: The Business of Mediating Experiences in Copenhagen and Singapore has been well-reviewed.
A list of his publications can be found at http://www.ooi.dk/ |
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