Research : Document Library

April 29, 2004

Immigrant Participatory Arts: An Insight into Community-building in Silicon Valley

By Pia Moriarty, Ph.D., published by Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley
PDF document: 2MB

October 7, 2005

2005 Creative Community Index

Published by Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley
PDF document: 1MB

February 27, 2006

There's Nothing Informal About It: Participatory Arts Within the Cultural Ecology of Silicon Valley

By Maribel Alvarez, Ph.D., published by Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley
PDF document: 1MB

June 1, 2007

Arts & Economic Prosperity III

Americans for the Arts and Arts Council Silicon Valley

PDF document: 1.6MB

January 2008

Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network Silicon Valley Index

PDF document: 7MB

 

Recommended Reading:

1stACT also recommends the following books:

The Tipping Point and Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell (2000) and (2008)

The Creative City: An Urban Innovators Toolkit

Charles Landry (2000)

The Rise of the Creative Class

Richard Florida (2002)

And the Band Stopped Playing: The Rise and Fall of the San Jose Symphony

Dr. Thomas Wolf and Nancy Glaze (2005)
(Available at www.wolfkeens.com)

What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

John Markoff (2005)

A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age

Daniel Pink (2005)

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom (2006)

ArtScience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation

David Edwards (2008)

Or, for more information, please contact Joshua Russell at jrussell@1stact.org.