Carola Boehm at CHIME - University 3.0 meets Gibbons 3.0: HCI and Music in the era of Co-Creation
Channel: Carola Boehm, Staffordshire University
Date: 2023-03-31

Abstract

In this talk, I would like to bring together some key thematic discourses from both higher education policy (Boehm, 2022) and creative industry strategy (Boehm, 2017; BEIS, 2018) and apply these in an exploratory manner to the interdisciplinary field of HCI and Music. 

I believe this is important, as within our academic communities of practices (research teams, disciplines, departments, faculties), we sometimes forget how much we are influenced, nudged, and afforded to shape our activities according to larger higher education policy contexts. These are, in turn, driven by ideological underpinnings to do with our perception of who owns knowledge and who has access to it, here in our case, for the purpose of innovation (Boehm, 2016).

Similarly, we could ask ourselves if our creative, music and audio-related industries sufficiently push the boundaries of the constraints derived from our current conceptualisations of how to boost economic productivity through innovation. Or are we - as a community of disciplinary practices that are often situated fluidly between academia and industry - just as guilty of toeing the line and following a trodden path when developing research-to-market services and products?  

Does this all affect our ability to innovate in the HCI and music sectors? Does it affect how we achieve music technology readiness level? Does it affect the technological tools and innovations that make it to market or the audio services we are developing and consuming? 

This talk will explore some conflicting discourses around innovation and productivity, and it will allow the classic Gibbons Modes of Knowledge Production (Gibbons, in: Carayannis & Campbell, 2012) to clash with a fundamental shift going on in our universities, conceptualised in my recent book as University 3.0 (Boehm, 2022). With this concept in place, I will attempt to re-consider what is really going on and how to move innovation policy and creative industry strategy forward, in both the academic and the industrial space. And then we should be able to collectively consider what this all means for HCI and Music.