The careers of fine artists and the embedded creative

While there is a growing body of scholarship on the creative industries and on the career trajectories of graduates from creative industries programmes, there has to date only been a limited amount of research that examines in detail, the careers of fine arts graduates. Fine art is arguably the least ‘vocational’ of creative disciplines, in that there are relatively few employers that seek to employ fine artists as fine artists. If fine arts graduates are not employed in their chosen field – that is, in the ‘Creative Trident’ terminology, in a core creative occupation – how do their careers parallel or differ from those of other creative graduates? Do they find employment as ‘embedded creatives’, using or applying their experience and practice in sectors beyond the core creative industries, or as ‘support workers’, enabling and facilitating the creative work of others? Do they experience portfolio careers? And how do their artistic training and attitudes to creativity affect their working relationships and experiences? This article draws on rich qualitative data about the experiences of a small group of graduates (including the author) who all graduated from the same course at the same institution in the UK in 1994, to provide some insights into the career paths and trajectories of a sample of fine arts graduates.     

科技翻译中的灵活处理

科技翻译讲究准确、严谨、清晰、精炼。译者作为翻译这一创造性活动的主体,在尊重原文的前提下,充分而适度地发挥其主体性是高质量完成译作的保证。该文试以航空专业为例浅析译者如何在科技翻译中进行灵活处理,通过采取恰当的翻译措施和策略,加强与技术人员的沟通,大胆重写、勇于创新,实现科技翻译的“创造性忠实”。     

“机械制图”课程多元化评价体系的探索与实践

“机械制图”课程是高职机电类专业的一门专业基础课,是后续专业课程学习的基石。基于教学资源共享,苏州市职业大学制图课程团队改进教学方法,注重过程化评价、客观化评价,借助企业案例评价和优秀作业展示,激发学生学习的兴趣,通过多元化评价体系,提高学习的评价效率和课程的社会服务能力。     

Integrating Creative Thinking Skills Pedagogies into a Higher Education Visual Arts Course

Although there has been increasing international emphasis on creativity in education, many creativity training programmes have focused on enhancing students' creative thinking skills with few studies on how these skills can be integrated into the teaching of subject disciplines. As a member of a Community of Practice project that ran from spring 2021 to summer 2022 at my university, I worked with ten university teachers from multiple disciplines to develop and implement instructional strategies to foster students' creative thinking skills. The paper documented the development, implementation and evaluation of creative thinking skills teaching strategies for a higher education course in visual arts. Both the development of the teaching strategies and the measurement of the impact on student learning have undergone vigorous research procedures and made reference to the existing literature. The effectiveness of the activities was assessed using multiple methods including the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking, a self-report inventory, and a focus group interview. The results indicated the new learning activities enhanced students' creative thinking skills. They also showed that creativity can be developed through teaching while revealing that playfulness, freedom and structure, group interactions, and problem-solving activities are beneficial for the development of creative thinking skills. Readers may better understand the different ways in which creative thinking skills instruction materials can be developed and incorporated into teaching of visual arts by making reference to the strategies suggested and the process of development in the paper.     

基于CAS的创新人才的培养机制及对策研究：协同创新的视角

目前我国大力倡导的协同创新是一种新兴的创新合作方式,以此为平台进行创新人才的培养具有很强的探索价值。协同创新是一个复杂的过程,创新主体通过激活创新要素、共享创新资源与优化资源配置来获得创新成果效用的最大化,其本质就是损益与共的企业与学研机构之间的互利合作模式。在这种合作模式中,合作双方在追求各自利益最大化的同时共同创造了一个有利于创新人才培养的协同创新环境,并能够保持连续有效的培养效果,是一种超越传统产学研合作的更加优越的新型人才培养模式。结合复杂适应系统理论,从动因机制、目标机制等六个方面构建协同创新下创新人才的培养机制;利用Netlogo仿真平台,通过多主体建模仿真证明了该机制的正确性;最后从利益协同、人才聚集、信任分派、知识共享和建立国际化的协同创新平台五个方面提出提升协同创新下创新人才培养的对策建议。     

中日创意产品贸易国际竞争力比较分析--基于国际分工视角

本文主要运用国际市场占有率指数、贸易竞争力指数和显示性比较优势指数对中日两国1996-2010年间的创意产品贸易进行了对比分析,结果表明：我国创意产品有着很强的国际竞争力,且远大于日本。通过进一步的行业分工分析发现,我国的竞争优势主要集中在工艺品、设计等创意和技术含量较低的劳动力密集型行业中,视听、音乐等创意元素较多的行业的竞争力并不高,且多个行业的竞争力正在下降;而日本除了少数几个创意产品外,各行业的竞争力均较弱。最后,从加快集聚区建设、引进和培养人才、加大科技投入、树立创意品牌等方面提出了提高中国创意产品贸易竞争力的对策。     

Address by H. E. LI Keqiang Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China At the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Global Research Council

<正>Beijing,27 May 2014Friends from the international science community,Ladies and Gentlemen,I am delighted to attend the 2014 annual meeting of the Global Research Council in Beijing.Established in 2012,the council is a young international science organization but has strong vitality and unlimited future.The council held its fi rst annual meeting in a developed country and is holding this year’s meeting in a developing one.This shows its global vision and dedication to openness and cooperation.The theme of this meeting,"Open Access and Shaping the Future",meets practical needs and reflects future trends.     

The pits and falls of graphical presentation

Graphics are powerful tools to communicate research results and to gain information from data. However, researchers should be careful when deciding which data to plot and the type of graphic to use, as well as other details. The consequence of bad decisions in these features varies from making research results unclear to distortions of these results, through the creation of “chartjunk” with useless information. This paper is not another tutorial about “good graphics” and “bad graphics”. Instead, it presents guidelines for graphic presentation of research results and some uncommon, but useful examples to communicate basic and complex data types, especially multivariate model results, which are commonly presented only by tables. By the end, there are no answers here, just ideas meant to inspire others on how to create their own graphics.     

浅谈标志设计的创意及表现手法

标志是视觉语言符号,能够以其特殊的视觉效果传递明确信息。在经济快速发展的今天,企业的形象、文化以及经营战略都与之有着密不可分的关系,它不仅仅是一个符号、一幅组图,更是一种象征品牌内涵的艺术。如何设计出令人印象深刻且蕴含现代设计风格的标志,是本文主要探索分析的问题。     

面向创新思维培养的机械原理教学探索

机械原理作为高等学校机械类专业的一门重要的技术基础课程,对于培养学生的机械综合设计能力,尤其是创新设计能力具有重要作用。本文围绕着学生创新思维培养目标在机械原理课程教学实践中进行了探索,在教学内容方面“提炼研究方法、建立知识结构”,在教学方法方面“注重知识引导、启发独立思考”,在教学宗旨方面“鼓励动手实践、培养创新思维”。本文总结教学改革的成果,以期通过与同行的交流探讨,进一步提高机械原理课程的教学质量,更好地培养学生的机械创新设计能力。