1st Edition

The Art of Enterprise Entrepreneurship in Design

By Nathan Richardson Copyright 2022
298 Pages 99 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

298 Pages 99 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

298 Pages 99 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Art of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship in Design explores the form and nature of entrepreneurship in a range of creative disciplines. It explores the complex ecology of activities that enable design, entrepreneurship, and alternative methods of practice within a creative practice, and for the benefit and engagement of society. The book is structured in four thematic sections: the Alpha... Read more

Part I: Alpha Room

1. Art and Enterprise

2. Perception, Cognition, and Imagination

3. Curiosity, Creativity, and Constraint

4. Aspiration, Expectation, and Emotion

5. Value in the Art and Artist

Part II: Beta Portal

6. Permeability, Chance, and Seeing-As-If

7. Risk, Return, and Window Making

8. Prototyping to Understand

9. Collaborate and Communicate

10. Co-Creation and Ephemeral Value

Part III: Gamma Field

11. Context Matters: People, Place, and Time

12. Discover, Learn, and Find Meaning

13. Vision and Artistic Agency

14. Cities, Clustering, and Commerce

15. Creative Citizenship

Part IV: Delta State

16. Non-Linear Growth and Layered Lifecycles

17. Beauty in Learning and the Role of Fear

18. The Composition of Skills

19. Designing for Change

20. Stories and the Impact of Innovation

Biography

Nathan Richardson teaches design, real estate, and entrepreneurship at the Oklahoma State University School of Architecture as an associate professor. He received a Master of Design Studies with Distinction from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and is a licensed architect in Massachusetts and Oklahoma. The integration of design and entrepreneurship is central to his research and teaching. He was a 2013 recipient of the ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award, has twice been named the Riata Fellow of the Year by the OSU School of Entrepreneurship, and received the Ferdinand Colloredo-Mansfeld Prize for Superior Achievement in Real Estate Studies at the GSD.