Lifestyle China: The Global Rise of China’s Creative Industries

Speaker: Philip Dodd
In collaboration with Asia Society India Centre

March 12, 2009 | 6.30 pm
Auditorium, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai

The shift from ‘Made in China’ to ‘Created in China’ was an imperative even before the global downturn. It is now an ever more urgent goal. This talk will explore how and with what success China is developing, branding and globalising its creative industries – everything from art to medicine, from fashion to software. Philip Dodd will outline the opportunities and dangers for China’s creativity in a century that many believe belongs to China.

Philip Dodd is Chairman of ‘Made in China’, and a ‘visionary Briton’, according to the Australian Herald Sun. He staged a major series on Chinese contemporary culture in 1999 in London, has for the last ten years advised Chinese city governments and agencies, and worked with China’s creative businesses to help globalise them. His posts include Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Deputy Editor of New Statesman, and Consultant to the British Pavilion at the forthcoming World Expo in Shanghai. He presents an arts and ideas programme weekly on the BBC and writes for publications as various as the Financial Times and the Shanghai Economic Review.