David Dooghe, Yvonne Rijpers Deltametropolis Association, the Netherlands

DELTAMETROPOLIS ASSOCIATION The independent Deltametropolis Association aims to develop, the in principal already present, deltametropolis in the West of the Netherlands.

Independent network for metropolitan development

- Laboratory for for agendizing innovative issues

- Platform for boosting the debate about the future Randstad

Deltametropolis Association – 3 main themes

Landscape

Transit Oriented Development

Metropolitan Development

Deltametropolis Association –membership

- governing bodies

- civil organisations

- companies

- private persons

Deltametropolis Association – funding

- Membership fees

- Research subsidy

- Projects with and for members

- Projects with and for non-members

Deltametropolis Association – project principals

-  connection between companies, knowledge institutions and public organisations: bridge between research and practice

- sharing and making available of all project results

-  all projects contribute to the goals of the association

-  the network of the association is always invited to participate and contribute

KULTUR

KAPITAL Cultural Clusters as a commodity

for cities, plannable and makeable?

Yvonne Rijpers, Deltametropolis Association, the Netherlands

Cultural Clusters – context

-  Cities – places to be

-  Rise of creative economy & policy

-  Attracting ‘creative class’

-  Global competition, local policy

Cultural Clusters – context

- Global ‘media’ instead of ‘service’ cities

- Global networks, local nodes

- Global competition, local policy

- Plannable & makeable?

Cultural Clusters – case study Berlin

- Europe’s favourite ‘Creative City’

- Unsuccessful after reunification

- Now: Alpha Media City (Kraetke)

- An example for other cities?

Cultural clusters – main questions

How does local cultural clustering work? How do clusters develop in connection to their (local) environment and their surrounding (global) network?

i.e. What is specifically global? What is specifically global?

Cultural Clusters – main themes - Policy: effects, network, development

- Position in transnational network

- Local spatial characteristics

- Historical development

- Success

Cultural Clusters – phases 0. desk research, pick case study

1. desk research, fieldtrip, interviews

2. international workshops and debates, advisory board

3. writing & testing

4. final publication, final debate

Phase 1 – fieldtrip and interviews

- Stakeholders

-  Local administrative bodies

- Chamber of Industry and Trade Commerce

- Professionals in the field of research and policy advice

Phase 1 – preliminary findings

- Policy = facilitating + creating networks

- Policy = sector specific and not spatial

- Policy = advisory boards + formal administration

- Money = EU funding + co-financing

Policy = facilitating + creating networks “People involved in similar practices, people who share an

interest, who share an idea, who share the understanding of a problem. (…) They breed ideas and develop dynamics to realise them”.

Suntje Schmidt, researcher

Policy = sector specific and not spatial

“We have an inner city West and an inner city East, and because of this, the creative economy is scattered all over the city.”

Sylvia Fiedler, policy maker

Policy = advisory boards + formal administration “I am in two advisory boards for the

Chamber of Industry and Trade. We work with big financial leaders, the investors; through these boards they are easily accessible and we can talk to them. It gives us the feeling that we are also part of the team of decision makers, which to a certain degree makes sense.”

Bastian Lange, professional and researcher in Cultural Industries

Money = EU funding + co-financing

“Up until now, we are still part of EU2, but this funding period is ending soon. We are now busy compiling new plans, but we do not know yet if we will get sufficient funding. A lot of funding has been shut down and the emphasis is shifting. Facing this change, we have to reconsider our role as well.”

Sylvia Fiedler, policy maker

Lessons from Berlin - Successful crisis management

- Strengthen what you’ve got

- Networking and facilitating

- Long term but flexible

Poor but sexy? – Challenges ahead!

Cultural clusters - next steps

- Starting phase 2

- Set up advisory board

- Co-funding scheme

- International cooperation

Partners

YEAR OF SPATIAL PLANNING 2015 Who makes the Netherlands?

- Ministery of environment and milieu

- Partner organisations

- Stakeholders

- Future interested parties

Looking back

- What has 25 year of spatial planning brought us?

- What were the advantages?

- What could have been done better?

- What are the lessons learnt?

Looking forward

- Who will be responsible for spatial planning in the future?

- What will be the role of the government on different scale levels?

- What will be the policy tools?

- What will be the perspectives? (energy, green, water, …)

Metropolitan Development

Metropolis?

Dutch Metropolis?

Metropolitan Qualities?

Continuous Process

Open to participate

Diversity of Choice

Public Realm