Tag Archives: creative industries

How Night Mayors Harness the Power of Cities After Dusk

by Valentin Schipfer Slowly but surely cities around the globe realize that there might be a slight relation between a vivid night club scene and a flourishing creative industry, including tech start-ups. The global competition for these promising economic branches … Continue reading

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ON THE CREATIVE QUESTION | MANIFESTO BY GEERT LOVINK, SEBASTIAN OLMA & NED ROSSITER

On the Creative Question – Nine Theses* By Geert Lovink, Sebastian Olma and Ned Rossiter ‘Culture attracts the worst impulses of the moneyed, it has no honor, it begs to be suburbanized and corrupted’. ― Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge ‘We … Continue reading

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Opening NEMONA Concept Store

By Markus Kather These days Karl-Marx-Straße, Neukölln’s beloved/notorious strip of gambling places and discount stores, has one more highlight. Local designers organized in the NEMONA fashion network are presenting their work at a temporary store.

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Urban Manufacturing/Manufacturing the Urban in Zürich

by Ares Kalandides Last Saturday I wrote a short blog entry with some very quick thoughts after visiting the conference re:Art:the:URBAN in Zürich. These thoughts did not relate to the panel I chaired, but were critical observations on the way … Continue reading

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Guest article: Shifting Notes – expanding the music industry to the outskirts of Berlin

By Keren Karp, Maria Paula Gutierrez, David Karolinski and Claudia Rojas Marzahn and other “invisible” districts of Berlin may very well be the next upcoming playground of the independent music scene in the city. An offbeat course on the creative industries … Continue reading

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Not again with Berlin…

By Renard Teipelke The expert seemed quite outraged hearing my question about Frankfurt am Main’s reputation as an economically strong capital of finance that lacks the alternative style and subcultural creativity of Berlin. I moved from Germany’s capital city to … Continue reading

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Urban Development and Creative Economy in Berlin, Part 3

The first part of this article (Monday 5th March) was an introduction to the evolution of the planning discourse since German reunification (1990); part two (Wednesday 7th March) introduced the issue of Creative Industries (in the Berlin context) in quantitative and qualitative … Continue reading

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Urban Development and the Creative Economy in Berlin, Part 2

by Ares Kalandides The first part of this article (Monday 5th March) was an introduction to the evolution of the planning discourse since German reunification (1990); part two (today) introduces the issue of Creative Industries (in the Berlin context) in quantitative and … Continue reading

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Urban Development and the Creative Economy in Berlin (Part 1)

by Ares Kalandides This (highly subjective) article is about the complex ways in which urban development and the creative economy interact in Berlin. The first part is an introduction to the evolution of the planning discourse since German reunification (1990); part … Continue reading

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Tired of the Creative bubble: Some thoughts on a popular concept

by Ares Kalandides Though I have more or less abandoned research on the issue of the Creative City, I am still often invited to participate in discussions or seminars on the subject. It is rarely satisfactory, as I find that … Continue reading

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