16-18 October 2006
Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Supported by Asia-Europe Foundation, British Academy and Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Organised by
Prof. Lily Kong (National University of Singapore)
Prof. Li Wu Wei (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences)
Prof. Justin O’Connor (University of Leeds).
Background
The cultural and creative industries have become increasingly prominent in many policy agendas in recent years. Not only have governments identified the growing consumer potential for cultural/ creative industry products in the home market, they have also seen the creative industry agenda as central to the growth of external markets. This creative industry agenda stresses creativity, innovation, small business growth, and access to global markets – all central to a wider agenda of moving from cheap manufacture towards high value-added products and services.
Cultural and creative industries are increasingly central to national and city policy agendas. This is true in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou (though other cities such as Chongqing and Wuhan are also developing this), as well as in Australia and New Zealand. Much of the thinking in these cities/countries has derived from the European and North American policy landscape.
However, though the promise of the ‘creative industry, creative city’ agenda has very real appeal, its implementation in the distinct context of outside of European and North American cities in general is fraught with ambiguities, tensions and ‘mistranslations’. This workshop seeks to address many of the issues surrounding the “ecosystem” of a creative city with a creative economy.
Panels
Creative Cities, Creative Industries
Culture, Economics and Public Policy
Creative Industries in policy and practice
Creative clusters and creative spaces in policy and practice
Creative class in policy and practice
Urban Interventions in the creative city
Creative economy and sustainable urban development
Contact information
Lily Kong, National University of Singapore (lilykong@nus.edu.sg)
Justin O’Connor, University of Leeds (oconnorjustin@hotmail.com)
