Comments on: Cities, technology, and creativity

By: Juan Freire

Juan Freire — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:32:00 +0000

¿Cómo conseguir acceso universal y barato a redes wifi en las ciudades?

Uno de las propuestas centrales del artículo de Jiry Engeström para las ciudades creativas (en Cities, technology, and ceativity) es el desarrollo de redes wifi abiertas. Ramón Sangüesa discutió en Reflexiones inseguras las propuestas de Engeström, y y…

By: Juan Freire

Juan Freire — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:20:08 +0000

¿Cómo conseguir acceso a redes wifi en las ciudades?

By: Juan Freire

Juan Freire — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:51:12 +0000

Política y tecnología para las ciudades creativas

La creatividad y la innovación son imprescindibles tanto para sostener nuestro crecimiento económico como para crear ciudades atractivas y dinámicas. Jiry Engeström ha publicado un provocador y magnífico artículo hace poco sobre Cities, technology, and…

By: Putting people first

Putting people first — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 18:23:36 +0000

Cities, technology and creativity

Jyri Engeström posted a long and interesting blog entry about cities, technology and creativity. [...] During the course of the last decade, computers have become the most important platform for remixing culture. It is likely that computer-based creati…

By: Martin-Éric

Martin-Éric — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 15:07:00 +0000

Funny timing: I’m also on the lookout for my next creative city.
However, the key aspect for me is receptivity towards foreigners.
Finland’s chief hindrance against creative migrants is its criminal treatment of non-EU nationals, demonstrated via the Finnish Immigration’s constant harrassment, its persistant gratuitous threats, and its repeated residence permit extension refusals, coupled with its protracted passport witholding that also prevents travelling to get work outside the country.
Whichever country comes next, it better be a REAL oikeusvaltio, not a lumivaltio that happens to have an Ombudsman just for the sake of pretending to be “civilized”.

By: Jyri

Jyri — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 19:07:55 +0000

There's a nice post by Ramon Sangüesa at Reflexiones inseguras picking up on the themes outlined here. I wish I could read Spanish!

By: Jyri

Jyri — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 23:07:56 +0000

Thanks for drawing attention to everything non-digital Christian. When I say 'computers have become the most important platform for remixing culture' I don't mean to discount remixing in physical space. My points are based on the observation that municipal administrators are experts at the politics of spaces but increasingly make consequential decisions about technology too. They do need to wake up to the full implications of their decisions about Wi-Fi for instance. All my points link to the more general observation that the physical and the digital are intertwining in various new urban twirls (for example, we've both been following what's happening with graffiti and tagging). A logical implication is that the social software people may soon need to open up their discourse and engage more with public officials (and other important cultural decision-makers, such as graffiti artists!) if they want their ideas about 'open-source infrastructure' to proliferate.

By: Christian Tønnesen

Christian Tønnesen — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 19:32:52 +0000

Jyri, another interesting post.
I find it noteworthy that your take on creativity, at least in this particular version, equals/departs solely from various forms of digital and legal enabling.
Is creativity really so much tied up to bits, bytes and property rights?
What about access to more mundane technologies, e.g. grafitti walls, studios, etc., or more profoundly space and remedies – how do they fit into the notion of ‘cultural remixing’?

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 10:13:51 +0000

There are also projects using technologies to support community of practices in cities. For instance, in my hometown (Lyon, France), I have friends trying to work out a platform about creative indusries (video games companies, clothes designers, dj’s…). The point si to foster exchanges tips, patterns, ideas between all these people.
They’re currently in the process of setting up something like regular meetings/events + a web platform that may need social software capabilities. My fear is that it would be limited to a portal + forum + matchmaking crap. Lots of more interesting stuff could be done about this.

By: bgblogging

bgblogging — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:56:35 +0000

After all this time…

My husband, who works for a foundation helping communities that are facing development pressure plan for their future, came home from work last night and asked me if I would walk some of his colleagues through my blogging. He thought…