beyond the creative city - jonathan vickery
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Jonathan Vickery's Talking Cities Presentation Beyond the Creative CityTRANSCRIPT
Jonathan VickeryCentre for Cultural Policy Studies
Beyond the Creative City – Cultural Policy in an age of scarcity
El Raval, Ciutat Vella Barcelona
Camden Lock market, London
City Brand/DM strategy
CulturalQuartersCreative Industry
clusters
Bobo/Bohemianresidence
Education sector/student life
Landmark/Signature architecture
Globally networked
public spaces/Public art
IP generators
Planning/Urban design
Coventry, Millennium Place
The Lowry Theatre, Salford Quays
Flash@Hebburn, Charles Quick: Hebburn
Hoxten, London
Urban White Paper Our Towns and Cities (2000) delivering an urban renaissance
‘How we live our lives is shaped by where we live our lives’ John Prescott’s Foreword Argument: the urban regeneration policy of past governments was premised on property reconstruction, ignoring the more fundamental issues of ‘quality of life’
The State of English Cities report attempted to create…
‘a connected rather than reductionist view of the world’ • integrationism in urban development • data on economics, social development, culture and international links
The Urban Task Force (1998-)
New urban artists
• ‘Art’ maker• Project manager• Events entrepreneur• Critic, public intellectual • Cultural diplomat• Technician, site manager, contracts director.• Critic, writer, educator
Labour Party election manifesto 1997
‘The arts, culture and sport are central to the task of recreating the sense of community,
identity and civic pride that should define our country. Yet we consistently undervalue the
role of the arts and culture in helping to create a civic society’
The Jerde Partnership and Coventry City Council, December 2008.
Cf: DETR (1998a) Planning for Sustainable Development: Towards a Better Practice London: Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions.
NVA public arts
Glasgow May 2009 – ongoingSAGE: PUTTING FOOD PRODUCTION INTO THE HEART OF URBAN LIFEwww.sowandgroweverywhere.org.uk
Cittadellarte – Foundation Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
Mirjam Struppek’s European Urban Screens project
Agorascape project of the CM Architecten Amsterdam, 2010 – ongoing:
Art & Sacred Places [Portsmouth Cathedral - Nathan Coley’ ‘Black Tent’ (2003)
