Artisanship, AI, Altered Employment and Art Ed – a personal view

Richard Adams@dickyadams www..radams.co.uk

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn”Alvin Toffler, Future Shock

Death of the machine age – Birth of the computer age

Death of the machine age – Birth of the computer age Computing and connectivity are disrupting every form

of public life Globalization, the rise of big corporations and the fall

of trade walls are creating a new economy Tech and access to markets has never been cheaper

or easier

Pillars of the new economy

4

The second economy,

machine to machine

New economics of money

The social economy

Mobile economy

Data economy

Security

IPR Creativity

Intelligence, smartness

sand automation

Working Life o f the next 50 years

50+ years of work

Economic instability

Lack of consensus

Rapid skills change

Constant contracting

Automation, first manual jobs and now professional

jobs

Globalization/ migration

Democratic tech and

connectivityMaker Culture

EMERGENCE OF THE ARTISAN TECHNOLOGIST

PORTFOLIO CAREER/MULTIPLE MEDIA

RE EMERGENCE OF THE ARTISAN

Skills neededBroad and

deep, continuous core

education

Ability to search,

verify and filter

Presentation, Pitching, Working

with people

Ability to think

laterally

Mindset of constant enquiry

Continuing learning – Constant reskilling

Mentoring and

Guidance

Constant Connections

Intelligence, Intelligence, Intelligence

Personal Branding

Art

Education

Creative Technologie

s

Critical Thinking,

Strategy and planningCraft

Skills

Brand Molecule

Project/ Business

Management

“Product Development”

Fine Art Teaching art and music

TwoWayTV

TVU/UWL

Yoomedia BBC

Own Business

SCA(Personal project)

BSkyB (contract)

Aviva (contract)

RSC (contract)

Processes Rigid, engineering

Stage/Gate

Lean and Agile

Continual and iterative

ToolsHigh degree of tech skills

Tough, inflexible, discrete

Web tools, connected

Modular, easy, smart and connected

REQUIRES

EMERGENCE OF A NEW/OLD WAY OF EDUCATING

RE EMERGENCE OF THE ARTISAN

Good artists ask questions, iterate and test

continually…

Start thinking

of themselves as

Conductors not

Composer/

Performers

Craft skills

need to change

and adapt…

So, how can artists thrive?

Thanks