scholarly journals An Acropolis for the Creative City

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Toby Walker
Keyword(s):  
Architectural History ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Cyclic Movement ◽  
Design Values ◽  
Architectural Language ◽  
Potential Alternative ◽  
The City

<p><b>For me, cities are the ultimate creative gesture. Largely in part, most cities are not developed to take this opportunity. Architectural history has in the main part been in service to deities and autocracies. This has been consistently expressed through to contemporary times, where it is now mainly in service of capitalism (Tafuri, 1976). Large developers have tended to treat the city as a consumer item, focussing on how people would consume the city, evidently opposed to the experience and how it affects the user (Tuck, n.d.).Within our field, how do we resist the shortcomings of capitalism? </b></p> <p>How might one conceive a monument to the creative city?</p> <p>This research proposes bringing creative practice to the forefront of urbanism as one potential alternative to the ‘consumer city’. By drawing creative practice to the core of urbanism, there is a chance to positively mould a city’s design values and public spaces. The city’s architecture, design values and built environment can be transformed productively and progressively.</p> <p>This research proposes polycentrism in Porirua as a means to explore Art Based Urbanism within the local context. This is explored through design-led research, exploring the potential of my creative processes and personal tendencies as a means of contemplating these issues. By reflecting on my creative process, I start to find a particular architecture within my innate tendencies. This architecture developed as a product of my cyclic movement between moments of expression through architectural language finding experiments, and pragmatism through infrastructure/circulation planning and mapping.</p> <p>This research demonstrates one potential alternative to the issue of the city being considered a ‘consumer item’. I have designed a monument to creative practices, a modern acropolis to reflect the creative spirit of society and bring it to the centre of the city.</p>

scholarly journals An Acropolis for the Creative City

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Toby Walker
Keyword(s):  
Architectural History ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Cyclic Movement ◽  
Design Values ◽  
Architectural Language ◽  
Potential Alternative ◽  
The City

<p><b>For me, cities are the ultimate creative gesture. Largely in part, most cities are not developed to take this opportunity. Architectural history has in the main part been in service to deities and autocracies. This has been consistently expressed through to contemporary times, where it is now mainly in service of capitalism (Tafuri, 1976). Large developers have tended to treat the city as a consumer item, focussing on how people would consume the city, evidently opposed to the experience and how it affects the user (Tuck, n.d.).Within our field, how do we resist the shortcomings of capitalism? </b></p> <p>How might one conceive a monument to the creative city?</p> <p>This research proposes bringing creative practice to the forefront of urbanism as one potential alternative to the ‘consumer city’. By drawing creative practice to the core of urbanism, there is a chance to positively mould a city’s design values and public spaces. The city’s architecture, design values and built environment can be transformed productively and progressively.</p> <p>This research proposes polycentrism in Porirua as a means to explore Art Based Urbanism within the local context. This is explored through design-led research, exploring the potential of my creative processes and personal tendencies as a means of contemplating these issues. By reflecting on my creative process, I start to find a particular architecture within my innate tendencies. This architecture developed as a product of my cyclic movement between moments of expression through architectural language finding experiments, and pragmatism through infrastructure/circulation planning and mapping.</p> <p>This research demonstrates one potential alternative to the issue of the city being considered a ‘consumer item’. I have designed a monument to creative practices, a modern acropolis to reflect the creative spirit of society and bring it to the centre of the city.</p>

scholarly journals Playful Assembly

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Small City ◽  
Cultural Wealth ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Architectural Language ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town ◽  
Thesis Work ◽  
Better Than

<p><b>Porirua is a small city I lived in from the age of ten to sixteen. It is the home to Wellington region’s best indoor go-karting track and fallen victim to urban sprawl. The first of four of my homes in this area was in the newly developed Aotea block and at the time it was the first house on the street. My four year old brother would sit and watch diggers and tractors all day, and in the afternoon we climbed them. All this destruction was intensely entertaining to a child. The devastation hit when the neighbour’s house got built, along with the rest of the street, in what felt like a week. Just like that, the glory days were over. We moved a couple years after this closer into the Whitby community. Aotea development was so new all it had was houses, I wouldn’t even call them homes. My mum got sick of travelling to Whitby all the time for milk and so on, so we eventually moved closer to the town. I could walk or bike to and from school. It was all so close; the dairy, friends’ houses, football park, playground, skatepark, everything! The glory days were back and better than ever.</b></p> <p>This move into an established community felt more like home. The simple rituals of walking to the dairy to get milk (and a lolly bag) became something I regularly enjoyed. The accessibility of amenities gave me independence and made life easier. The ‘home’ broke through the boundaries of the house and into the park, the biked streets and the football pitch. If one can feel at home within a whole community then why build new houses separate from established towns? All on their lonesome, dependent on cars and with diggers for neighbours.</p> <p>This thesis re-conceives Porirua as a playful assembly. With an emphasis on cultural wealth, this process establishes an architectural language promoting Porirua’s development towards a creative city. Cultural wealth is a term which gives priority to the cultural layer of the city, it emphasises creation rather than consumption. Creativity sits at the heart of this layer making it a crucial element of the creative city. The wealth of culture in Porirua comes from its depth of diversity; in Maori, Pasifika and Pakeha and others coming together. While the specific cultures aren’t emphasised, the importance lies within this diversity. This is one of the reasons I chose the Porirua CBD as the site for my thesis.</p> <p>My playful process crosses paths with art, architecture and urban perspectives to develop a visual language emphasising creation within the city. The search for my own creative voice lends itself to the importance of self-expression within the city. Through this thesis work, I wanted to encourage people to more openly produce self-expressive work. I recognise that the city already has these processes and the products and processes of my creative voice target the creation of these spaces giving them priority and emphasis in the city. This thesis aims to create a welcoming, inclusive environment for people to create. Within the urban realm an alternative view is presented holding creativity at the heart of the city rather than economy.</p>

scholarly journals Playful Assembly

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Small City ◽  
Cultural Wealth ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Architectural Language ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town ◽  
Thesis Work ◽  
Better Than

<p><b>Porirua is a small city I lived in from the age of ten to sixteen. It is the home to Wellington region’s best indoor go-karting track and fallen victim to urban sprawl. The first of four of my homes in this area was in the newly developed Aotea block and at the time it was the first house on the street. My four year old brother would sit and watch diggers and tractors all day, and in the afternoon we climbed them. All this destruction was intensely entertaining to a child. The devastation hit when the neighbour’s house got built, along with the rest of the street, in what felt like a week. Just like that, the glory days were over. We moved a couple years after this closer into the Whitby community. Aotea development was so new all it had was houses, I wouldn’t even call them homes. My mum got sick of travelling to Whitby all the time for milk and so on, so we eventually moved closer to the town. I could walk or bike to and from school. It was all so close; the dairy, friends’ houses, football park, playground, skatepark, everything! The glory days were back and better than ever.</b></p> <p>This move into an established community felt more like home. The simple rituals of walking to the dairy to get milk (and a lolly bag) became something I regularly enjoyed. The accessibility of amenities gave me independence and made life easier. The ‘home’ broke through the boundaries of the house and into the park, the biked streets and the football pitch. If one can feel at home within a whole community then why build new houses separate from established towns? All on their lonesome, dependent on cars and with diggers for neighbours.</p> <p>This thesis re-conceives Porirua as a playful assembly. With an emphasis on cultural wealth, this process establishes an architectural language promoting Porirua’s development towards a creative city. Cultural wealth is a term which gives priority to the cultural layer of the city, it emphasises creation rather than consumption. Creativity sits at the heart of this layer making it a crucial element of the creative city. The wealth of culture in Porirua comes from its depth of diversity; in Maori, Pasifika and Pakeha and others coming together. While the specific cultures aren’t emphasised, the importance lies within this diversity. This is one of the reasons I chose the Porirua CBD as the site for my thesis.</p> <p>My playful process crosses paths with art, architecture and urban perspectives to develop a visual language emphasising creation within the city. The search for my own creative voice lends itself to the importance of self-expression within the city. Through this thesis work, I wanted to encourage people to more openly produce self-expressive work. I recognise that the city already has these processes and the products and processes of my creative voice target the creation of these spaces giving them priority and emphasis in the city. This thesis aims to create a welcoming, inclusive environment for people to create. Within the urban realm an alternative view is presented holding creativity at the heart of the city rather than economy.</p>

Lyon – UNESCO’s Creative City of Gastronomy?

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Avelino Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Brand Positioning ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Creative Cities ◽  
Marketing Program ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Territorial Marketing ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

The fast urbanization in many regions of the world has generated a high competition between cities. In the race for investments and for international presence, some cities have increasingly resorting to the territorial marketing techniques like city branding. One of the strategies of recent years has been to use of creativity and / or labeling of creative city for the promotion of its destination. This phenomenon raises a question whether the city branding programs have worked in accordance with the cultural industries of the territory or if such labels influence the thought of tourists and locals. This paper begins by placing a consideration of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) and the strategies of the Territorial Marketing Program of the city of Lyon in France, Only Lyon. It also raises the question the perception of the target public to each of the current actions through semi-structured interviews which were applied between May and August 2015. Finally, I will try to open a discussion the brand positioning adopted by the city of Lyon

Chronotope of Siberia in the materials of the magazine “Nastoyashchee” (1928–1930)

2021 ◽  
pp. 96-105
Author(s):  
S. S. Vasilyev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decisive Role ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Prose Poetry ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Quick Response ◽  
Revolutionary Literature ◽  
Front Group ◽  
The City

The paper deals with the Novosibirsk magazine “Nastoyashchee” (The Present) (1928–1930). “Nastoyashchee” was oriented to the “fact literature”: the theory of new revolutionary literature developed by the LEF (Left Art Front) group, which emphasized the importance of the reflection of the truth of life. Hence, the importance of journalism increases, with feuilleton and essay becoming the most important genres. Such an attitude to the fact literature orients materials of the magazine to the local context understood rather broadly – as the context of Siberia and even the entire Asian part of the USSR. This understanding is considered on the example of all types of magazine materials: prose, poetry, folklore, illustrations, photography. It should be noted that the magazine’s attitude to the poetry was ambivalent: not only did it publish the poetry but also the articles with requests to stop writing poetry. Most significant was the literature of a quick response conforming to the current tasks of the proletariat. It is for this reason that most of the materials related to the fact literature had no ethnographic component, and the local was interesting not as exotic, but as correlating with USSR political context (the link between the city and the countryside, the organization of communes, the fight against the kulaks). The decisive role in writing is found to be inevitably assigned to sorting out the necessary facts illuminating life from the authors’ side of interest, making “Nastoyashchee” similar to the LEF group with their selecting and editing “facts-friends” and criticism of “facts-enemies.”

scholarly journals The conflict between attempts to green arid cities and urban livelihoods The case of Dodoma, Tanzania

2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aldo Lupala ◽  
John Lupala
Keyword(s):  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Local Context ◽  
City Development ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Master Plans ◽  
Contributory Factors ◽  
Urban Livelihoods ◽  
Planning Concepts ◽  
The City

One of the features that characterise the designated capital city of Dodoma is the limited green landscape element as a result of semiarid climatic conditions of the whole central region of Tanzania. Besides concerted efforts by the Dodoma urban authorities to develop greenery landscape within the city through the Capital City Development Programme, such efforts have fallen into conflict with people’s livelihood activities. In this paper, it is argued that the gap between identification of appropriate landscape features that are not consistent with people's lifestyles and the local conditions are the contributory factors to the observed conflicts between attempts to green the city and livelihoods of the residents. Borrowed planning concepts in the masterplans thatwere imposed on the contextof Dodoma do not reflectthe realityof thepeople's needs and priorities as regards their livelihoods. These concepts have to the greatest extent failed to integrate livelihood activities and greening initiatives. This paper underscores the need for developing locally based planning considerations that take cognisance of all stakeholders and the local context as a way towards harmonising greening initiatives while accommodating people's livelihood needs and activities.Key Words: greening initiatives, livelihood activities, semi-arid cities, urban planning, master plans, Dodoma, Tanzania. 

scholarly journals ARQUITETURA, IDEOLOGIA E PRODUÇÃO: o uso do edifício público como veículo de comunicação no período do “Regime Militar” brasileiro

Revista Labor ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (18) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Eneas de Araújo Arrais Neto
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Military Government ◽  
Specific Group ◽  
The Public ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Architectural Language ◽  
The Military ◽  
The City

Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar os edifícios sedes dos órgãos públicos federais construídos na cidade de Fortaleza durante os anos de vigência do “Regime Militar”. Parte da compreensão de que a arquitetura, enquanto objeto de fruição coletiva, assume o papel de meio de comunicação de massa no espaço urbano e, como tal, foi um dos instrumentos de divulgação ideológica dos governos militares dirigidos aos setores sociais urbanos; veiculando principalmente idéias de modernização, desenvolvimento, racionalidade, onipotência do poder estatal e autoritarismo. Analisa igualmente as influências, neste processo, da cultura de classe do setor burocrático-estatal, e propõe que estas edificações, ao estabelecerem novos padrões estéticos e de utilização de materiais e equipamentos de procedência tecnológica estrangeira, se constituíram em elementos importantes do processo de abertura da economia nacional ao capital multinacional, em particular no que diz respeito ao mercado da construção civil.Abstract This paper presents the arquitectural critique of a specific group of edifications built in the city of Fortaleza during the period of the military governments in Brazil. The character of the architecture developed by the military government in public buildings in this period is common all over the country: the facilities were built to with the intention to occupy the cities as out-doors of the military governments, diffusing images of modernization, rationality, economic development and the power of the state.   Through the use of architectural language, by the means of design, project, materials, forms and other ways, the architecture of the public sector played the role of ideology, besides introducing imported materials and equipment previously unused in the building sector of the country.

scholarly journals SISTEM KERJA VIRTUAL PHOTOSHOOT DITENGAH PANDEMI COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Rangga Alfara ◽  
Dasrun Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Method ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Consumer Trust ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Descriptive Method

Virtual photoshoot is a photography trend nowadays. Where virtual photoshoots are an alternative business activity for photographers in the midst of a social distancing policy due to the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak. The method in this study used a qualitative descriptive method, and then a phenomenological study approach was carried out. The research sampling was carried out through purposive sampling method, namely the virtual photoshoot actors in the city of Bandung. The results in this study indicate the creative aspects of the virtual photoshoot which consist of methods, creative processes and obstacles. Meanwhile, the aspect of consumer trust consists of establishing a portfolio, educating the virtual photoshoot stage and targeting new potential markets. Whereas the virtual media photoshoots used consisted of social media references, media technology and the relationship between technology and photography media in order to improve business activities amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals MODAL SOSIAL PEMANTIK UNTUK KOTA KREATIF

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 404
Author(s):  
Tubagus Arya Abdurachman
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Creative Cities ◽  
Creative City ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City ◽  
Dominant Influence

The discussion of this research is the development of creative cities in a country is the result of the efforts of the government and creative actors in the city in the country. Creative city can not be separated from the potential of social capital that is owned by the people in the city. Social capital is a social organization concept that includes network of norms and social trusts that facilitate mutual coordination and cooperation including in developing the regional economy. This research aims to (1) know the contribution of social capital in making a creative city, (2) express the social capital and creativity of individuals and communities to realize creative city, and (3) know aspects of social capital that dominant influence on a creativity of the city. The method of this research is qualitative primary data with technic observation and indepth interview, also secondary data in the form of document and archive analysis from Bandung city as one of creative city in Indonesia. Research is done during 2015-2016. Conclusions this research are (1)Social capital that form trust, tolerance, cooperation, openness, and independence of the community greatly contributes in the creation of creative city because through the braided integration of social capital that forms a norm of behavior binding for its citizens to be creative and does not require material capital,(2)Individual urban creativity formed through the process of socialization of elements of social capital in the life of society to trigger creativity of individuals and society as a whole, and (3) The form of openness, tolerance, and cooperation are the dominant elements of social capital in growing the creativity of individuals and societyKeywords: Creatif city, Social capital

scholarly journals Sociospacial identity of Belgrade in the context of urban and regional development of Serbia

Sociologija ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-166
Author(s):  
Sreten Vujovic
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Creative City ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
Entrepreneurial City ◽  
Urban And Regional Development ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Regional Imbalance ◽  
The City

Based on the analyses of sociologists, historians, economists, demographers, anthropologists, and based on author?s own research, the aim of the paper is to point to the complex and dynamic sociospatial identity of contemporary Belgrade in the context of urban and regional development of post-socialist Serbia. The analytical framework includes, first of all, the definition of the city?s identity in terms of self-awareness of a city as sociospatial collectivity, which historically originates and develops in dependency which the city and the individuals in it establish in relationships with other cities. It then cites the various concepts by means of which identity of the modern city is constructed: the entrepreneurial city (Harvey), the creative city (Florida and Landry), the exciting city (Richards and Palmer), the city as a text (Radovic), a competitive identity of the city (Anholt) and so on. In particular, Belgradization as a process of concentration of money and power in the capital is analyzed and it is concluded that the network of Serbian cities is pyramidal, that the regionalization of Serbia is asymmetric, and that Belgrade is a primate city, too big and too powerful for Serbia i.e. that Belgradization increases regional imbalance in Serbia. The paper concludes with an optimistic assessment that Belgrade, despite numerous problems in its development, has the potential to become the ?European Capital of Culture? in 2020.

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