Tired of the Creative bubble: Some thoughts on a popular concept
Learning Centre, Lausanne 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...
View ArticleUrban Development and the Creative Economy in Berlin (Part 1)
Bundeskanzleramt Berlin ©Martin Künzel, Berlin by Ares Kalandides This (highly subjective) article is about the complex ways in which urban development and the creative economy interact in Berlin. The...
View ArticleUrban Development and the Creative Economy in Berlin, Part 2
The Berlin headquarters of Universal Music © Georg Slickers by Ares Kalandides The first part of this article (Monday 5th March) was an introduction to the evolution of the planning discourse since...
View ArticleUrban Development and Creative Economy in Berlin, Part 3
NEMONA Showroom Summer 2011 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...
View ArticleNot 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...
View ArticleGuest article: Shifting Notes – expanding the music industry to the outskirts...
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...
View ArticleUrban 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...
View ArticleOpening 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...
View ArticleON THE CREATIVE QUESTION | MANIFESTO BY GEERT LOVINK, SEBASTIAN OLMA & NED...
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’....
View ArticleHow 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...
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