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Conference: Creativity from a Global
Perspective, Shanghai, Oct 2010
Call
for Papers:
Creativity Unbound
Culture
Unbound, Spring 2011
Honoured and humbled by
two teaching awards in 2009: "Teacher of the Semester", CBS
Executive MBA;
"Professor of the
Year", CBS Full-Time MBA
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imagine.. Creative Industries Research Centre
Creative
Encounters
Centre for International Business & Emerging
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Skype: canseng
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July 2010
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Welcome!
I am an Associate
Professor at Copenhagen Business School
(CBS). Besides teaching, I lead an
interdisciplinary research project on place branding, art and culture. 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 dialogical roles played by curators, dealers,
collectors, critics, art schools and of course, artists in the art world?
Personally, I concentrate on the situations in Singapore,
Denmark and China.
Besides
the art industry, my other research interests include the creative industries, experience economy, tourism
strategies and cross-cultural management. Shall we start a
dialogue?
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Research Project on the Creative Industries:
Place
Branding, Art and Culture (PAC)
The Danish
Research Agency for Science Technology and Innovation is recognizing the
significance of the experience economy in the global context. My
colleagues and I have been awarded a grant to work on the project, Creative
Encounters: The Socio-Economic Organization of Creative
Industries. This project consists of three streams of
research: film and media; fashion and luxury; and place branding, art and culture (PAC). I am
leading the last. In PAC, Birgit Stoeber, Nina Poulsen and I are working
closely to examine the exciting art worlds of Singapore, Copenhagen and
Berlin. The 4-year project started in April 2007.
Based on the Government Encounters workshop in May 2009,
a special themed edition of Culture Unbound - Creativity Unbound
- will be published in early 2011. These are some PAC-related
publications:
- Ooi, C.S. 2010. Branding Cities, Changing
Societies. Creative Encounters Working Paper #45. Copenhagen:
Copenhagen Business School.
- Ooi, C.S. 2010. Buying and selling art: Control
mechanism during interaction. Creative Encounters Working Paper
#48. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School.
- Ooi, C.S. 2010. Shifting Sand: An Anthology of Works by JOOheng
Tan. Singapore: Sandworkz. (with E. Poon)
- Ooi, C.S. and Stoeber, B. 2010. "Authenticity
and Place Branding: The Arts and Culture in Branding Berlin and
Singapore". In Britta Timm Knudsen and Anne Marit Waade (eds.),
Re-Investing Authenticity: Tourism, Places and Emotions. Bristol:
Channel View Publications. 66-79.
- Koning, J. and Ooi, C.S. 2010. Awkwardness and what to
do with it: Contemplating quality and trustworthiness in organizational
ethnography. CIBEM Working Paper June 2010. Copenhagen: Copenhagen
Business School. 19pp. Paper presented at the 26th EGOS Colloquium, July
2010, Lisbon.
- Ooi, C.S. 2009. Familiarity and uniqueness:
Branding Singapore as a revitalized destination. Creative
Encounters Working Paper #36. Copenhagen: Imagine.. Creative Industry
Research Centre.
- Ooi,C.S. and Strandgaard Pedersen, J. 2009.
City Branding and Film Festivals: The case of Copenhagen.
Creative Encounters Working Paper #28. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business
School.
Ooi, C.S. 2009. "The Orient replies: Tourism, orientalism
and the national museums of Singapore", Ratasatra
San [Bulletin of the Faculty of Political Sciences,
Thammasat Unviersity]. Vol. 30, No. 2 (May - August), 113-155. (in
Thai, translated by Chewasit Boonyakiet).
Ooi, C.S. 2009. "Government and creativity:
Arts city Singapore", Creative Industries, No. 3, 44-47. [in
Chinese, translated by Marina Guo, a journal of the Shanghai Academy of
Social Sciences]
Stoeber, B. and Ooi, C.S. 2009. "Kreatives Singapour" [Creative
Singapore]. In Lange, B.; Kalandides, A.; Stoeber, B. and Wellmann, I.
(eds.) Governance der Kreativwirtschaft [Governing the Creative
Industries]. Bielefeld: Transcript. (in German)
Lange, B.; Kalandides, A.; Stoeber, B. and Wellmann, I. (eds.) 2009.
Governance der Kreativwirtschaft [Governing the Creative
Industries]. Bielefeld: Transcript. (in German
Ooi, C.S. 2008. "Reimagining Singapore as a creative
nation: The politics of place branding", Place Branding and Public
Diplomacy, Vol. 4, 287-302.
These are my more recent articles,
many of which are available for downloading. You may also contact me for
copies:
- 2010. "An art education, So what? The situation in Singapore" Paper
presented at the Careers in the Creative Industries Conference,
Copenhagen, 10-12 May.
- 2010. Branding Cities, Changing Societies.
Creative Encounters Working Paper #45. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business
School.
- 2010. Buying and selling art: Control mechanism during
interaction. Creative Encounters Working Paper #48. Copenhagen:
Copenhagen Business School.
- 2010. Shifting Sand: An Anthology of Sand Sculptures by JOOheng
Tan. Singapore: Sandworkz. (with E. Boon)
- 2010. "Authenticity and place branding: The
arts and culture in branding Berlin and Singapore". In Britta Timm
Knudsen and Anne Marit Waade (eds.), Re-Investing Authenticity:
Tourism, Places and Emotions. Bristol: Channel View Publications.
66-79. (with Birgit Stoeber)
- 2010. Awkwardness and what to do with it:
Contemplating quality and trustworthiness in organizational
ethnography. CIBEM Working Paper June 2010. Copenhagen: Copenhagen
Business School. 19pp. Paper presented at the 26th EGOS Colloquium, July
2010, Lisbon. (with Juliette Koning)
- 2009. Familiarity and uniqueness: Branding
Singapore as a revitalized destination. Creative Encounters Working
Paper #36. Copenhagen: Imagine.. Creative Industry Research Centre.
- 2009. City Branding and Film Festivals: The
case of Copenhagen. Creative Encounters Working Paper #28.
Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School. (with Jesper Strandgaard
Pedersen)
- 2009. "The Orient responds: Tourism, orientalism and the
national museums of Singapore", [Bulletin of the Faculty of
Political Sciences, Thammasat Unviersity]. Vol. 30, No. 2 (May - August,
113-155. (in Thai, translated by Chewasit Boonyakiet).
- 2009. "Government and creativity: Arts city Singapore",
Creative Industries, No. 3, 44-47. [in Chinese, translated by
Marina Guo, a journal of the Shanghai Academy of Social
Sciences].
- 2009. "Kreatives Singapour" [Creative Singapore]. In Lange,
B.; Kalandides, A.; Stoeber, B. and Wellmann, I. (eds.) Governance
der Kreativwirtschaft [Governing the Creative Industries].
Bielefeld: Transcript. (in German, with Birgit Stoeber)
 2009. Soft authoritarianism, political
pragmatism and cultural policies: Singapore as a City for the Arts.
Creative Encounters Working Paper #34; paper
presented at the Government Encounters workshop. 4-6 May. Copenhagen:
Imagine.. Creative Industry Research Centre.
My book:
Cultural
Tourism and Tourism Cultures: The Business of Mediating Experiences in
Copenhagen and Singapore
Latest
Read the review in Tourist
Studies
Latest Interview on DR2 Udland
on political art in China, 12
February 2010.
The new National Art Gallery of Singapore has to
show leadership in the contemporary art scene, letter published in the
Straits Times.
Straits Times' journalist
Clarrisa Oon looked at the Danish education system
and welfare state; Information, a Danish daily,
looked at the advent of contemporary Chinese art; "Is Copenhagen
Cool?" KBH magazine looked at the issues in their summer 2008 feature
article; DJOEF Bladet examined
"Sovereign Wealth Funds" and Magasinet Finans peered
into "Singapore's Temasek & GIC".
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