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22.05.2013
Riga: ‘The Creative Bureaucracy’, a lecture and workshop with various Latvian ministries on how their bureaucracies can re-invent themselves. One obvious focus is using IT in interesting w [MORE]
05.05.2013
I always like thinking of cities as if they were a person. It makes it easier for me to get a grip on them. Traditionally when we assess a city we look at its employment rate, its industries, its loca [MORE]
04.05.2013
The Creative City Dialogue was a three hours long event revolving around key note speaker (Mike Harris, Head of Leisure & Culture, Southampton City Council), a dialogue, a workshop and music compo [MORE]
04.05.2013
Planning creativity, culture and cities often leads to hyped tunnel visions, in which the cultural creatives are viewed from the economic point of view mostly.
This is a shame, says Charles Landry, fo [MORE]
02.05.2013 16:43:24
It felt like a very special day was beginning as me and a few other colleagues from A New Direction were waiting to greet teachers and groups of pupils from the four London schools that took part in o [MORE]
02.05.2013 16:30:29
Hot off the press – Nesta, the UK’s innovation foundation, has published a Manifesto for the Creative Economy with a 10-point plan on how to bolster this fast growing sector. [MORE]
25.04.2013 12:54:39
If vibrancy is people, and citizenship is creative, it follows that the more that citizens feel they are able to contribute to their public spaces, the more vibrant their communities will be. The core [MORE]
25.04.2013 12:45:20
Charles Landry, Comedia, author of The Creative Index for Cities talks about: how he came to create the Creative Index for Cities through his work with Bilbao; the ten domains used as indicators; the [MORE]
05.01.2012 18:33:44
Take a look at the interactive map of projected global growth of cities up to 2025, made by McKinsey Global Institute. It explores which cities will contribute most to global growth, shows the fastest [MORE]
10.07.2011 20:48:24
Creative Cities Evaluation Report is a summary of the Creative Cities project from 2008 until 2011. It highlights the long-term benefits and impact that the Creative Cities project has brought to the [MORE]
23.06.2011 17:27:32
An Experimental Forum on Culture and Social Innovation, Ljubljana, 2– 4 December 2010: ‘Thinking about culture as a factor of economic and social innovation’.
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Hot off the press – Nesta, the UK’s innovation foundation, has published a Manifesto for the Creative Economy with a 10-point plan on how to bolster this fast growing sector.
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May 2, 2013
Passion and belief in their own creative venture were feelings that permeated all of the sessions and to which pupils responded incredibly well.
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