Remembering the Creative City
Remembering the Creative City
This paper examines how future visions of the creative city are bound up with partial and forgotten accounts of what creative cities generally have done before and of the past programming and events that specific cities have been involved with. The focus on “remembering” addresses the mundane challenges of being aware of, recalling and understanding what has gone before in (creative) cities. This paper explores how the creative city is remembered in two ways.
Firstly, this paper examines how the success stories and best practices from successful cities of culture gain momentum and traction. This analysis of the explanatory power and appeal of different forms of information and reflection reviews a range of reports, videos, and academic publications.
Secondly, this paper examines how dominant ideas of the creative city that emerges through these “lessons learnt” and examples of “best practice” have traction for other cities navigating their standing and potential. Part of this is exploring how the ‘cultural apparatchiks, intermediaries and entrepreneurs’ identified by Banks and O’Connor (2017) connect with these dominant ideas. As well as critically understanding the position of these more visible figures, it is essential to recognize the experiences for those people and communities that largely go unnamed and unconsulted.
By focusing on “remembering”, this paper addresses the subtle and everyday ways in which the creative city is constructed. Empirically this involves examining how versions of “best practice” and “the creative city” are remembered, exalted, overlooked or forgotten, in a range for venues and formats, including committees, meetings, promotional materials and campaigns, conferences, publications, and reports. In doing, this paper argues that these venues and formats and their everyday and subtle “remembering” of what the creative city is can be, are an important focus for exploring diverse visions of creativity in/and the city.
Ashton, Daniel
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12 September 2019
Ashton, Daniel
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Ashton, Daniel
(2019)
Remembering the Creative City.
Creativity, Knowledge, Cities: Rethinking, Resisting and Reimagining the Creative City<br/>, UWE Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.
12 - 13 Sep 2019.
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This paper examines how future visions of the creative city are bound up with partial and forgotten accounts of what creative cities generally have done before and of the past programming and events that specific cities have been involved with. The focus on “remembering” addresses the mundane challenges of being aware of, recalling and understanding what has gone before in (creative) cities. This paper explores how the creative city is remembered in two ways.
Firstly, this paper examines how the success stories and best practices from successful cities of culture gain momentum and traction. This analysis of the explanatory power and appeal of different forms of information and reflection reviews a range of reports, videos, and academic publications.
Secondly, this paper examines how dominant ideas of the creative city that emerges through these “lessons learnt” and examples of “best practice” have traction for other cities navigating their standing and potential. Part of this is exploring how the ‘cultural apparatchiks, intermediaries and entrepreneurs’ identified by Banks and O’Connor (2017) connect with these dominant ideas. As well as critically understanding the position of these more visible figures, it is essential to recognize the experiences for those people and communities that largely go unnamed and unconsulted.
By focusing on “remembering”, this paper addresses the subtle and everyday ways in which the creative city is constructed. Empirically this involves examining how versions of “best practice” and “the creative city” are remembered, exalted, overlooked or forgotten, in a range for venues and formats, including committees, meetings, promotional materials and campaigns, conferences, publications, and reports. In doing, this paper argues that these venues and formats and their everyday and subtle “remembering” of what the creative city is can be, are an important focus for exploring diverse visions of creativity in/and the city.
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Published date: 12 September 2019
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Creativity, Knowledge, Cities: Rethinking, Resisting and Reimagining the Creative City<br/>, UWE Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2019-09-12 - 2019-09-13
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