In partnership with Columbia College Chicago, ELIA announces a joint international symposium that adresses the role of the arts and its "claim to creativity", in relation to other forms of creativity and society at large.

The symposium Claiming Creativity will take place in Chicago, America's architectural capital. The audience will be composed of practitioners and policy makers from all over the world, and will include workshops, panel discussions with some of the world's leading experts on creativity in the arts and industry, and selected presentations.

The workshops will focus, in several simultaneous groups, on the following topics:
1. Creativity and the economy
2. Art, science and technology
3. Art and the environment
4. Creativity and research
5. Art, culture and social change
A web forum will be established at the conference site to generate interested and generate material for discussion. It is intended that this forum will continue after the conference.