WORKING CAPITAL - PODCAST SERIES

A selection of podcasts from the Working Capital project

A recently launched project at Warwick Business School seeks to bring together the worlds of business and the arts in a creative, academic context. The Working Capital project is a chance for staff, students and alumni at WBS to enhance their teaching and learning through the introduction of creative approaches, techniques and culture. A series of podcasts about the project, including those from a recent workshop event using drama to investigate the banking crisis, are now available below.

The Working Capital projects, launched in November 2010, was a first step in developing a Creative Network to bring together alumni and colleagues from WBS with those from other University departments with practitioners and entrepreneurs from the creative sector. In an article written for the Knowledge Centre, Grier Palmer described the initiative:

'Our new multi-project programme, Working Capital, encompasses the approaches of the Arts, creative individuals and the creative sector and applies these to the world of business to develop stronger creativity and innovation in WBS teaching, learning and research.'

As part of the project a series of events and workshops is designed to bring together colleagues to discuss a range of issues in a creative context. The first workshop focussed on the use of drama to explore the banking crisis: titled ‘Machiavelli and Harlequino explain the banking crisis... you must be joking'. Podcasts from the event, featuring Warwick academics, are available below.

Podcast One provides an introduction to the Working Capital project featuring Grier Palmer, WBS Assistant Dean of Teaching and Learning; Professor Mark Taylor, WBS Dean; Professor Jonathan Neelands, WBS Professor of Creative Education; and Simon M. Woods, founder of the European Drama Network.

Two further podcasts provide more detail about the workshop , 'Machiavelli and Harlequino explain the banking crisis....you must be joking’ in which the powerful political perspectives of Machiavelli were allied to the satirical comedy characters of Commedia dell’Arte.

Grier Palmer and Annouchka Bayley reflect on the 'Machiavelli and Harlequino explain the banking crisis....you must be joking.'

What do you think? How do you see business and the arts working together in the future? Let us know in the comments box.

Grier Palmer is Assistant Dean for Teaching and Learning at Warwick Business School. He is responsible for the Working Capital initiative.

Professor Mark P. Taylor is Dean of WBS. Professor Taylor has outstanding credentials both in academia and in the business & policy worlds, and combines interest and experience in finance and Shakespeare studies.

Professor Jonothan Neelands is a National Teaching Fellow, Chair of Drama and Theatre Education in Warwick Institute of Education, and Professor of Creative Education at WBS.

Simon M. Woods is a WBS alumnus, entrepreneur, producer and manager and founder of the European Drama Network , a film production company making modern movies from classic plays and text.

Annouchka Bayley is a performer and teacher as well as postgraduate research student in the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies at Warwick.

By Amy Howes