This document discusses a mapping project of culture and sustainable development stakeholders in the Baltic Sea Region. The mapping found:
1) A wide range of stakeholders are engaged in cultural projects related to sustainability in many ways and for various reasons, leading to both diversity and fragmentation.
2) There is a lack of knowledge about the effects of culture on sustainable development and a lack of cross-fertilization between different cultural agents and sectors.
3) Moving forward, opportunities exist to reduce complexity and increase sustainability through culture as a transversal vector across sectors, with a focus on practical collaborative projects in areas like creative industries, urban development, and social innovation.
Presentation by Külliki Tafel-Viia from Tallinn University Estonian Institute for Futures Studies on the Interim results of the situation analysis in 11 cities participating in the Creative Metropoles project. Presentation given at the Experience exchange event in Warsaw, October 2009
MAPSI conference Tallinn - I-Chi Ko 070715I-Chi Ko
From ‘Steel Town’ to ‘Cultural Town’
-The cultural junction between old and new, with reference to ‘2012 Kaohsiung International Steel and Iron Sculpture Festival ’
This paper focuses on urban regeneration, harnessing the power of cultural tourism and art and culture in the re-branding of a traditional industrial town.
Kaohsiung, in Taiwan has long been the country’s steel manufacturer, main port, and shipbuilding centre. Similarly, it’s people are seem nationally, as tough, working class, and unsophisticated.
Now, however, as the city moves from industrial to post-industrial, it faces challenges familiar to many cities in the west. Can the city re-brand itself? Can it diversity? What is the potential for re-branding its image? Can cultural policies be used to turn around Kaohsiung’s identity into something new, something more positive?
Using the 2012 Kaohsiung International Steel and Iron Sculpture Festival as a case study, this paper will consider the opportunities and challenges facing cultural festivals in Taiwan.
We will discuss funding and how cultural re-branding on a city level relates to national cultural policy. Using original data produced from questionnaires, the paper will also consider the impacts on the audience of mainly local people, and the potential for changing perceptions of the city and local identity.
The paper concludes by evaluating the societal impacts from three perspectives: policy at local and national government level, local audience reactions, and finally, the author’s personal evaluation.
The researcher, I-Chi Ko, is a native of Kaohsiung, and assistant researcher at Pier-2 Art Centre, Bureau of Cultural Affairs Kaohsiung City Government, Taiwan, who has direct experienced of working on the 2012 Kaohsiung International Steel and Iron Sculpture Festival. He is currently a Master’s degree student, studying Arts Administration and Cultural Policy at Goldsmiths, University of London.
NB. The Kaohsiung International Steel and Iron Sculpture Festival is a one month biennial event, founded in 2002, and attracting sixteen artists from four countries, and an audience of sixty thousand people at least.
Keywords: Taiwan, Pier-2 Art Centre, Cultural Policy, Regeneration, Festival.
Presentation by Külliki Tafel-Viia from Tallinn University Estonian Institute for Futures Studies on the Interim results of the situation analysis in 11 cities participating in the Creative Metropoles project. Presentation given at the Experience exchange event in Warsaw, October 2009
MAPSI conference Tallinn - I-Chi Ko 070715I-Chi Ko
From ‘Steel Town’ to ‘Cultural Town’
-The cultural junction between old and new, with reference to ‘2012 Kaohsiung International Steel and Iron Sculpture Festival ’
This paper focuses on urban regeneration, harnessing the power of cultural tourism and art and culture in the re-branding of a traditional industrial town.
Kaohsiung, in Taiwan has long been the country’s steel manufacturer, main port, and shipbuilding centre. Similarly, it’s people are seem nationally, as tough, working class, and unsophisticated.
Now, however, as the city moves from industrial to post-industrial, it faces challenges familiar to many cities in the west. Can the city re-brand itself? Can it diversity? What is the potential for re-branding its image? Can cultural policies be used to turn around Kaohsiung’s identity into something new, something more positive?
Using the 2012 Kaohsiung International Steel and Iron Sculpture Festival as a case study, this paper will consider the opportunities and challenges facing cultural festivals in Taiwan.
We will discuss funding and how cultural re-branding on a city level relates to national cultural policy. Using original data produced from questionnaires, the paper will also consider the impacts on the audience of mainly local people, and the potential for changing perceptions of the city and local identity.
The paper concludes by evaluating the societal impacts from three perspectives: policy at local and national government level, local audience reactions, and finally, the author’s personal evaluation.
The researcher, I-Chi Ko, is a native of Kaohsiung, and assistant researcher at Pier-2 Art Centre, Bureau of Cultural Affairs Kaohsiung City Government, Taiwan, who has direct experienced of working on the 2012 Kaohsiung International Steel and Iron Sculpture Festival. He is currently a Master’s degree student, studying Arts Administration and Cultural Policy at Goldsmiths, University of London.
NB. The Kaohsiung International Steel and Iron Sculpture Festival is a one month biennial event, founded in 2002, and attracting sixteen artists from four countries, and an audience of sixty thousand people at least.
Keywords: Taiwan, Pier-2 Art Centre, Cultural Policy, Regeneration, Festival.
Seminar Presentation, Edinburgh Napier University Business School, Graiglockh...Rodanthi Tzanelli
The economies of mega-events: Decolonising the Olympic norm of hospitality in social science scholarship
Rodanthi Tzanelli, University of Leeds, UK
r.tzanelli@leeds.ac.uk
My presentation considers mega-events as capitalist ventures, promoting re-organisations of time and space in host cultures to enable them to respond to various mobilities of business, technological and infrastructural development, tourism and professional migration, and cultural representation. I specifically examine the Olympic Games as a ‘hospitality enterprise’ still connected to the Olympic values of reciprocity and fair competition. However, contra Marxist and Foucaultian scholarship in the field, I argue that we should split this enterprise into two forms of economy that organise mega-event labour to ensure the provision of hospitality: the ‘artificial economy’ looks after surveillance, security and the control of leisure in the Olympic city; the ‘economy of imagination’ looks after the mega-event as a creative venture, thus producing architectural legacies and ceremonial art to enhance and circulate (broadcast) the host’s cultural atmospheres.
The current scholarly focus on the ‘artificial economy’ as an economy of guest and heritage protection, and the progressive displacement of the ‘imaginative economy’ to the fields of tourism, popular culture, leisure studies and so forth, are normative through and through. They introduce a symbolically gendered division of labour that we also encounter in tourism and hospitality business, moralising economic flows and demoting mega-event leisure regimes (associated with the mega-event’s architectural and ceremonial art, or tourism imaginaries connected to the host’s cultural atmosphere) to superficial, ‘cosmetic’ pursuits. Such arguments reproduce old political discourses that valorise (masculinise) nationalism and feminise national culture that do (should) not belong to contemporary globalised environments of economic transaction, cross-cultural fertilisation and international policy exchange.
Iniciativa urbana Espíritu Santo. Una experiencia de regeneración social y urbana, con la participación ciudadana.
Rosa MARTÍNEZ GÓMEZ; Carmen María VERDE MARTIN
Aisling Murtagh, Geography, NUI Galway, presented this talk entitled "Peripheral regional development and creative entrepreneurship in the European northern periphery" on behalf of the Creative, Liveable and Sustainable Communities research cluster at the 2017 Whitaker Institute Research Day on 6th April 2017.
Accompany the mutation of an industrial city into sustainable industrial city: engineering of the territorial prospective to strengthen citizen and institutional empowerment.
Pascale GONTIER
By assisting the strategy of the St Sebastian City Council and Fomento San Sebastián to promote open and strategic social innovation, Dr Calzada will conduct on October 26 a workshop with regional agents in St Sebastian.
Debate questions for the case study presentation of Dubrovnik by Tina Šegota, Senior Lecturer in Advertising and Marketing Communications, University of Greenwich, UK at the 3rd OECD Summer Academy on Cultural and Creative Industries and Local Development , held in virtual format on 27-30 April 2020.
more info: https://oe.cd/sacci
Building competitiveness and innovative capacity through culture and creativi...OECD CFE
Presentation of Pier Luigi SACCO, Special Adviser to the EU Commissioner for Education and Culture European Commission at the OECD session "Technology and work: The rise of Cultural and Creative Industries", 1 June 2018, Trento, Italy.
More info https://oe.cd/festival
Resillience, cultural intervention, micro innovation, policy - City-Link 2014Oleg Koefoed
This talk was given to the City-Link Congress in Hamburg, in September 2014. The congress brought together researchers, artists, and practitioners to reflect on the issue of resilience and culture in cities. The congress had presentations by Sharon Zukin, Elke Krasny, Levente Polyak, Sacha Kagan and Oleg Koefoed.
Oleg koefoed culture and sustainability sympo nord quebec feb 2015Oleg Koefoed
Presentation at the International Symposium for Northern Development in Quebec City, Febuary 2015. Brief words about culture and sustainable development + intro to strategy and actions by the Nordic Council of Ministers. Ask for more details!
Seminar Presentation, Edinburgh Napier University Business School, Graiglockh...Rodanthi Tzanelli
The economies of mega-events: Decolonising the Olympic norm of hospitality in social science scholarship
Rodanthi Tzanelli, University of Leeds, UK
r.tzanelli@leeds.ac.uk
My presentation considers mega-events as capitalist ventures, promoting re-organisations of time and space in host cultures to enable them to respond to various mobilities of business, technological and infrastructural development, tourism and professional migration, and cultural representation. I specifically examine the Olympic Games as a ‘hospitality enterprise’ still connected to the Olympic values of reciprocity and fair competition. However, contra Marxist and Foucaultian scholarship in the field, I argue that we should split this enterprise into two forms of economy that organise mega-event labour to ensure the provision of hospitality: the ‘artificial economy’ looks after surveillance, security and the control of leisure in the Olympic city; the ‘economy of imagination’ looks after the mega-event as a creative venture, thus producing architectural legacies and ceremonial art to enhance and circulate (broadcast) the host’s cultural atmospheres.
The current scholarly focus on the ‘artificial economy’ as an economy of guest and heritage protection, and the progressive displacement of the ‘imaginative economy’ to the fields of tourism, popular culture, leisure studies and so forth, are normative through and through. They introduce a symbolically gendered division of labour that we also encounter in tourism and hospitality business, moralising economic flows and demoting mega-event leisure regimes (associated with the mega-event’s architectural and ceremonial art, or tourism imaginaries connected to the host’s cultural atmosphere) to superficial, ‘cosmetic’ pursuits. Such arguments reproduce old political discourses that valorise (masculinise) nationalism and feminise national culture that do (should) not belong to contemporary globalised environments of economic transaction, cross-cultural fertilisation and international policy exchange.
Iniciativa urbana Espíritu Santo. Una experiencia de regeneración social y urbana, con la participación ciudadana.
Rosa MARTÍNEZ GÓMEZ; Carmen María VERDE MARTIN
Aisling Murtagh, Geography, NUI Galway, presented this talk entitled "Peripheral regional development and creative entrepreneurship in the European northern periphery" on behalf of the Creative, Liveable and Sustainable Communities research cluster at the 2017 Whitaker Institute Research Day on 6th April 2017.
Accompany the mutation of an industrial city into sustainable industrial city: engineering of the territorial prospective to strengthen citizen and institutional empowerment.
Pascale GONTIER
By assisting the strategy of the St Sebastian City Council and Fomento San Sebastián to promote open and strategic social innovation, Dr Calzada will conduct on October 26 a workshop with regional agents in St Sebastian.
Debate questions for the case study presentation of Dubrovnik by Tina Šegota, Senior Lecturer in Advertising and Marketing Communications, University of Greenwich, UK at the 3rd OECD Summer Academy on Cultural and Creative Industries and Local Development , held in virtual format on 27-30 April 2020.
more info: https://oe.cd/sacci
Building competitiveness and innovative capacity through culture and creativi...OECD CFE
Presentation of Pier Luigi SACCO, Special Adviser to the EU Commissioner for Education and Culture European Commission at the OECD session "Technology and work: The rise of Cultural and Creative Industries", 1 June 2018, Trento, Italy.
More info https://oe.cd/festival
Resillience, cultural intervention, micro innovation, policy - City-Link 2014Oleg Koefoed
This talk was given to the City-Link Congress in Hamburg, in September 2014. The congress brought together researchers, artists, and practitioners to reflect on the issue of resilience and culture in cities. The congress had presentations by Sharon Zukin, Elke Krasny, Levente Polyak, Sacha Kagan and Oleg Koefoed.
Oleg koefoed culture and sustainability sympo nord quebec feb 2015Oleg Koefoed
Presentation at the International Symposium for Northern Development in Quebec City, Febuary 2015. Brief words about culture and sustainable development + intro to strategy and actions by the Nordic Council of Ministers. Ask for more details!
What is cultural policy?
Can artists influence cultural policy?
Can the language of research and evaluation offer a bridge between arts and policy needs?
1. Culture and Sustainable development
Mapping and future prospects
SEBA conference, Kaliningrad
Oleg Koefoed, director, Cultura21 Nordic
2. A new role for culture?
The economic model has changed
: from patronage to industries
Explosion of number of agents
: birth of the creative classes
Dismantling of disciplinary borders
: art in culture in neighbourhoods
in cities in projects – in policies?
How can culture lead transformations?
SurvivalKit, Riga
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Couros / Guimaraes 2012
3. Culture and Sustainable Development
– a flagship project in EUSBSR (2.0)
Culture is part of the sustainability agenda today
1987 Brundtland report: 3 pillars of sustainability – economic, social, environment
Culture as 4th
pillar?
…culture across borders, shaping standards and behavior
Growing attention from politics // business // cities // regions
But HOW – and what works?
4. EUSBSR strategy – priority area culture
Nordic Council of Ministers led flagship project
Mapping existing stakeholders, activities, interests and opportunities for cooperation
First step --- then:
Develop knowledge: Baltic Sea Region // impact of culture // sustainable development
// economic // social // environmental // cultural
5. Phase 1: Mapping stakeholders, activities, interests and opportunities for cooperation
Result:
“Culture and Sustainable development
-8 findings, a number of opportunities
and a way forward”
Dome of Visions, CPH
6. - The stakeholders
- Their current activities
- Their interests in engaging
⇒ opportunities for cooperation
7. Findings and opportunities…
The area of cultural collaboration and sustainability is rich and
complex
⇒ Stakeholders engage in many ways, for many reasons
⇒ A snapshot
⇒ Diversity // abundance // fragmentation
Not one identity but a number
⇒ Several vectors: Nordic-Baltic, Nordic-Russian, German-Russian
⇒ Bi-lateral linkages impact on activities of born-baltic institutions
⇒ Complexity can also be an asset = Diversity => innovation
8. Europe 2020 Strategy provides a launch pad for C&S
initiatives
⇒ Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive
⇒ Growth and development
Need for cultural stakeholders to engage beyond own
sphere and comfort zone
⇒ Culture can catalyse a shift away from sector-
based policy making
… if culture values are communicated and tailored to
meet also other objectives
9. Some challenges
⇒ Different approaches to culture and to sustainability
⇒ Different approaches to stakeholder engagement and
cooperation
⇒ Lack of knowledge on cultural drivers for sustainability
('proof of concepts’, practices and tools).
But BSR have opportunities to pioneer sustainable
development through culture
⇒ Urban Development
⇒ Creative Industries
⇒ Social Innovation (the social process of innovation +
innovation with social purpose)
10. Seek for solutions through complexity // diversity
⇒ Diverse histories, identities, social systems and approaches to
culture and sustainable development
⇒ Use diverse meshworks to increase awareness and cross-
fertilize efforts
There is an outspoken need for improved dialogue
⇒ Connect rich but fragmented activities and efforts
⇒ Engage stakeholders at different levels from within and
outside the cultural sphere
⇒ Focus on practical and concrete activities
• stories, practices, idea generation, anchoring, innovation
11.
Opportunities?
Reducing complexity to embrace sustainability
Culture as the transversal vector across sectors
Examples:
– innovation centres / hubs across art, gaming, social leverage
– frontrunners in sectors: business, art, science, urban planning, innovation, etc
– improving cross-fertilization
– transcultural // transdisciplinary // practical engagement
– renewing islands // sectors // regions // industries // communities
x
12. Summarizing findings..
A myriad of projects
Multitude of
approaches/methods
Lack of knowledge of
effects
Lack of visibility among
agents
Lack of cross-fertilizing
More transdisciplinarity and
transversality needed
13.
Findings and opportunities…
AHEAD: successful projects have a clear and understandable scope
→ Having a clear focus also implies some reduced complexity
→ Action-based and action-inviting increases motivation
→ High strategic ambitions attract attention and support
→ Joint knowledge building must be made an advantage