{"id":849,"date":"2006-02-15T08:43:19","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T16:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2006\/02\/beyond_richard_florida\/"},"modified":"2006-02-15T08:43:19","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T16:43:19","slug":"beyond_richard_florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/beyond_richard_florida.php","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Richard Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Daly has some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danceadvance.org\/03archives\/daly01\/index.html\">great thoughts on the present and future of the arts ecosystem<\/a> in the United States. While her comments spring from frustration at the &#8221;creative class&#8221; rhetoric that seemed more heat than light (a grievance she&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anndaly.com\/articles\/florida.html\">aired before<\/a>), the real power of the piece is in its recommendations for the future. Says Daly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nOnce upon a time, it seemed a promising gambit to latch on to the coattails of the newly-minted, seemingly ascendant creative class. But it turns out (anyone surprised?) that the category is so diffuse as to be meaningless for any other purpose than the theoretical, or &#8212; more politically expedient &#8212; the rhetorical. Florida&#8217;s prescription for economic growth &#8212; in part, to build the vibrant street culture that is sought after by the creative professionals who drive business development &#8212; has yielded no tangible benefits for arts and culture per se.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Daly sees the most recent rhetorical wave as an opportunity to not be fooled again, and to move forward on our own terms. She suggests five &#8221;modest proposals&#8221; to reframe and refocus our collective work:<\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The cultural sector needs to look beyond institution-building\n<li>The cultural sector needs to focus on infrastructure\n<li>The cultural sector needs to think and act systematically\n<li>The cultural sector needs to anticipate the future strategically\n<li>The cultural sector needs interpretive advocates\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Here, here. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danceadvance.org\/03archives\/daly01\/index.html\">Read the details<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Daly has some great thoughts on the present and future of the arts ecosystem in the United States. While her comments spring from frustration at the &#8221;creative class&#8221; rhetoric that seemed more heat than light (a grievance she&#8217;s aired before), the real power of the piece is in its recommendations for the future. Says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}