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URBACT day 1 – Cities of tomorrow – action today
I have just come back from the day 1 of the annual URBACT conference in Copenhagen. This year’s theme is “Cities of tomorrow – action today”. And what a great title – because one of the key things we need … Continue reading
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Film, finance and business models
Last week the Danish Minister for Culture, Uffe Elbæk, hosted the fourth meeting in the series of discussions called Kultur på Kanten (Culture on the Edge). This event was a follow-up to the previous event, which discussed the issue for … Continue reading
Copenhagen Creative Task Force
Earlier this week Copenhagen Creative Task Force published their recommendations for Copenhagen to retain their position as a leading creative hub in Northern Europe. There are 20 concrete recommendations in the report which have been divided into four main strands: … Continue reading
Share or Perish?
How do we ensure that content creators and creatives are rewarded adequately in a digital age? The Danish Ministry for Culture recently hosted a very topical and interesting debate on digital distribution and intellectual property rights in their series of … Continue reading
Is Localism the Silver Bullet?
The theme for this year’s CLES summit (full disclosure: I am a board member at CLES – the Centre for Local Economic Strategies in Manchester) was Localism – picking up on a very current trend from localism act over local … Continue reading
A tale of two cities pursuing the European Capital of Culture title.
Earlier this week, two Danish cities submitted their applications to become European Capital of Culture in 2017. The decision on the winner will take place in August this year but what are in the bids? The central theme of the … Continue reading
Authentic cities
Is it an oxymoron to talk about authenticity in relation to an urban environment? Or can our man-made abodes be understood as having an essence which they can fulfill or defy? An insightful point about the authentic city is that … Continue reading
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Creative industry task forces
This morning I noticed that the Australian state New South Wales have set up a taskforce for growth in the creative industries. Similarly, last week the mayor of Copenhagen in Denmark set up a creative industries task force too, Copenhagen … Continue reading
World Architecture Festival
Later this year (3-5 October) the World Architecture Festival (WAF) will take place in Singapore. The director of the festival, Paul Finch, has just visited Copenhagen to promote the festival to Danish architects and also to encourage them to submit … Continue reading
Rebuild21: Brief summary of day 2
Day 2 of Rebuild21 focused on rebuilding education and rethinking business. The day started with the personal story of Jake Nickell of Threadless as an example of how the internet and crowdsourcing has revolutionised the way we do business. On … Continue reading