Cocreating Creative City Vancouver

Co-creating the Creative CityCommunities Entering Policy and Planning Practice

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Copyright Remarkk! Consulting, 2007. Distributed under a Creative Commons license:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/

A Work in Progress...

Municipal Cultural Planning

The Creative Convergence Project

Open Creative Communities

Tools, methods and practices of self-organization and emergence

Creating new spaces for co-creation to happen

Can policy and planning perceive the creative community?

Can the creative community perceive itself?

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Municipal Cultural PlanningIntegrating culture into municipal planning - more than a Culture Plan!

A “whole systems” approach to cultural, social and economic development

Four pillars of sustainability: Economic, Cultural, Social and Environmental

Bottom-up resource-based approach: Cultural Mapping

Tangible assets: museums, galleries, theatres, heritage, artists, cultural and creative industries

Intangible assets: stories, meaning, identity, character, sense of place

Municipal Cultural Planning: the strategic and integrated planning and use of cultural resources in urban and community development

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Creative Convergence ProjectArtscape, MaRS Discovery District, Evergreen Foundation, Toronto International Film Festival Group, Canadian Film Centre, Ontario College of Art & Design

The Cultural Ecology meets the Creative Economy through acts of creative collaboration

Towards “Collaborative Competitive Advantage”

Place-based approach to creative sector development:

Hubs, Districts and City are platforms for sustainability, collaboration, interaction and intersection

Research:

Mapping the creative sector: core arts, cultural industries and creative services

Surveying creative people about the relationship between place and practice

World Cafes: open conversations with creative neighbours

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Critique of the Creative ClassThe “cultural value” of products and services in the global economy IS increasing

Place quality IS important to economic development

Gentrification effects need to be mitigated for long-term sustainability of the cultural milieu

Something appears to be emerging, but is it a “Class”?

Artists and Marketing Professionals?

Poets and Hollywood Film Producers?

Dancers and Software Developers?

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What Connects The Creative City?

PLACE?

PRACTICE?

VALUES?

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New Lenses:Communities

Communities of Practice

Communities of Proximity

Communities of Interest

Communities of Values

Virtual communitymeets physical place.

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Toronto TransitCamp

“Not a complaints department, a solutions playground”

Passion and fun meet practice

Diverse communities

Design Slam

Institutional change

Instantiating community

Modelling for replication

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Results for TTC

Noticeable shift in relationship: from combative to collaborative

A new model for community engagement and communication

New open-source projects: openttc.ca, opentransit.info

TTC received expertise unavailable in-house

New strategies for a web site RFP:

embraces community and peer-production concept

maximizes brand and service impact with limited resources

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Modelling TransitCampDiscovery and play

passion

fun

practice

Intersections of communities

professional and amateur

interest groups and creators

Community leadership

shared values

alignment of self-interest

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From Burning Man...

...to transit geeks??http://flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/150268856/

Open Creative Communities

Open: No artificial barriers to entry; membership comes from creative citizenship, both professional and amateur

Creative: Production of ideas and inventions that are personal, original and meaningful

Community: any group of individuals who interact and share some common characteristics; those characteristics may include practices, interests, values and proximity

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“What is an Open Creative Community?”: http://remarkk.com/2007/02/25/essay-what-is-an-open-creative-community/

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How do we create space

for play?

Text

City Repair Project, Portland

What is Open Space?A meeting/conference method

“The invitation to take responsibility for discussing your passion”

“Unconference” - the participants create the content

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference

Principles of self-organization

Law of Two Feet

Supplements formal, explicit learning with tacit knowledge and network building

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What is compelling to me?

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Design for Energy

Communities are naturally occurring social systems

Social systems demonstrate emergent biological properties

Starts with passion and human desires

Intentional communities require design of a loose framework of rules/norms

Play is what happens in the space between the rules

Tapping emergence means activating passion and the play instinct

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Collaboration

Web 2.0 is Us

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Collaboration inside the organization

Collaboration among stakeholder organizations

Collaboration with diverse communities

Mass Collaboration

What do we want to do together?Awareness

Meet

Learn

Enable

Practice

Share

Succeed

Tell

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Co-Creation RulesYes, and...

Make an offer to do something

What you want me to do, and why?

Give me a platform

Create opportunity

Play

Understand the environment

Work at it

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Adapted from J. Moore & J. Cherkoff, http://www.changethis.com/29.03.CoCreationRules,

Love the 1%ers

Get vernacular

Make mistakes

Lower barriers

Let the mess show

Share your secrets

Be changed

Show the humanity

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Mark Kuznickihttp://remarkk.commark@remarkk.com