On September 29, 2024, the USC U.S.-China Institute hosted a workshop at the Huntington’s Chinese garden, offering K-12 educators hands-on insights into using the garden as a teaching tool. With expert presentations, a guided tour, and new resources, the event explored how Chinese gardens' rich history and cultural significance can be integrated into classrooms. Interested in learning more? Click below for details on the workshop and upcoming programs for educators.
Creative Labor: Precarity and Freedom: A Critique of the Creative Industries
Geert Lovink will discuss the overhyped and under-researched field of "creative industries." He will address the notion of precarity and immaterial labor as they apply to creative industries in China and continental Europe.
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Geert Lovink is a media theorist, a critic and the author of Dark Fiber, Uncanny Networks, My First Recession, The Principle of Notworking and Zero Comments. He is co-founder of Internet projects The Digital City, Nettime, Fibreculture and Incommunicado. He is director of the Institute of Network Cultures, part of the Interactive Media School at Amsterdam Polytechnic and associate professor at the Media and Culture Department at the University of Amsterdam.
His blog may be found here.
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