The Otis Report on the Creative Economy brings an important and unique contribution to the conversation by looking at the economic impact of creativity, examining twelve creative industries ranging from architecture and interior design to entertainment, fashion, and art galleries, which in turn are broken down into 57 subsectors.
LEAP Dialogues: The Educator’s Guide
Since the publication of LEAP Dialogues: Career Pathways in Design for Social Innovation by Designmatters in 2016, we have heard from many educators and students from around the world who have embraced the publication and used the content as an integral part of their studies and curricula. Inspired by these stories, Designmatters decided to create LEAP Dialogues: The Educator’s Guide, an open-source digest of some original content from the book along with new resources specifically tailored to educators.
The Educator’s Guide contains 12 select dialogues, each accompanied by a set of open-ended questions to provoke critical reading and to jumpstart classroom discussion. Five case studies are included to ground the theoretical discussions about the future of careers by showing what the emerging field looks like. Unique to this Guide is an annotated bibliography that provides students with complementary readings on topics related to designing for social innovation to inspire new and expanded directions of study.
Arts, Culture and Transportation: A Creative Placemaking Field Scan
This study explores transportation challenges and seeks to identify how arts and culture can contribute to solutions.
Staying Engaged: Health Patterns of Older Americans Who Participate in the Arts
This report describes arts participation patterns of older adults (aged 55 and over) tracked by the 2014 Health and Retirement Study. The nationally representative sample is also analyzed for its attitudes toward the arts. Central to the report, however, is an examination of the health characteristics (cognitive ability, physical function, and hypertension rates) among adults who created art, who attended arts events, or who did both or did neither.
Beyond the Core: Advancing Student Success Through the Arts
This Education Trends report explores research on how the arts bolster the development of deeper learning skills, provides examples of programs that successfully increased access to the arts in education in public schools, and includes state- and local-level policy considerations.
The art of Head Start: Intensive arts integration associated with advantage in school readiness for economically disadvantaged children
The present study examined the impact of intensive arts integration on school readiness for economically disadvantaged children attending Head Start preschool. Participants were 265 children, ages 3-5 years.
