‘Nowadays a brand is no longer an instrument of marketing, but it is a symbol for inspiring, meaningfull organisations.’
Susan Klijsen is a researcher within the Cultural and Creative Industries research group and the New Marketing research group. She is a tutor at the Academy for Marketing & Business Management programme at Avans University of Applied Sciences and coordinator of the minor Branding.
Susan likes to think in concepts. As a teacher in branding & innovation, she followed different studies in concepting. Commercial Economics and Master Imagineering in Breda, Retailstyling at the Academie Artemis in Amsterdam and interior achitecture at the Interieuracademie in Utrecht. Recent years Susan studied how to get the most out of a brand concept, therefore she worked together with different strategical agencies to see concept development in practise; Advertising agency Ogilvy in Amsterdam and strategic retailadvice agency Crossmarks in den Bosch.
Research Group: Cultural and Creative Industries
The research group Cultural and Creative Industries investigates the role of artists and designers as creative innovators and drivers of social and economic change. Affiliated researchers analyse the cultural and creative industries from a critical point of view and examine the conditions under which timely forms of aesthetic expression and social connectedness can actually take place within the precarious reality of this field. What economic models are required by artists and designers to create a meaningful practice within the aesthetic, social, and economic intentions of the cultural and creative industries? What skills sets are required for those artists and designers who don’t just want to follow movements, but actually shape novel social and economic models of the future?
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