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2008 CREATIVE CITIES SUMMIT 2.0 WRAP-UP
2008 Ingenious CITIES SUMMIT 2.0 WRAP-UP : 1/2 of Sustainability is Education
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10.12.08 - 10.15.08 found Fusicology Senior Editor and contributing author, Jocelyne Ninneman, back home in her autochthonous Detroit for this 2nd annual international top.
This one’s a doozy… but keeping me, it’s worth the read - that is, if you’re into cities 
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October 12 – 15 found me back diggings in Detroit attending the 2nd Annual Imaginative Cities Summit at the Detroit New dawn Center (ironically new home to GM HQ), a 4-day ecumenical conference on cities; what they were, what they have become, and what they will be – or at least what we about they should be. Held last in Florida, this year the designer chose Detroit – the announcement child for need, apparently.
Fusicology, being the hub that it is for seeking out and highlighting accurate, alternative urban music & mores experiences in the very thing this summit revolves around – cities – found its sort as a media sponsor, being that we, of course, give something one's imprimatur creative cities.
Perhaps one the things that stood out to me among the sea of “despatch-thinkers” and “urban activists” was that what we do at Fusicology by assist nature is actually a topic of weigh; its own field of interest. “Cool-spotting” is now a new compactness – we are actually a commodity! Wow, and here we brainwork all along we were just trying to find the dopest fete… and share it with our friends. ;0)
In many ways, the CCS is MySpace for the over-guru urbanite, especially those hailing from or presently residing in rustbelt cities. It seems that the former industrial epicenters of the US have all eyes and ears on urbanity, now that the gas masks of the factories are lifted and the smog has cleared a bit. Education is the new steel.
Though the summit held several forums with pro architects and planners on green-erection, alternative energy, and sustainable materials and intention, more of the short week seemed to be focused on capitalizing on refinement as the “new” economy. (We had to pasquil just a little, seeing as we’ve known all along what the sustainable value of authoritative culture is – it’s kinda facetious to see it all over-analyzed.) Forget brace, cars, or even Silicon Valley – all those trains have Nautical port the station. With the exception of the mega-tropoli like New York and LA, it seems that American cities are struggling to fascinate or even retain their young, savvy intelligista.
So the CCS served predominantly as a workshop for representatives from various cities and communities (first of all, ahem, suburbs) who are experiencing the “capacity drain” that is immanent after any further-thinking, culture-seeking college grad realizes that there isn’t a whole lot to keep their interest after campus in Disneyland-stylishness or post-WWII suburbia. Not only that, but often the nearest “town” won’t always do either.
What did the “cool” experts have to say about how to recall the next generation of movers and shakers in your ‘hood, and thereby keep your city thriving and economically stable? Well, for one, drawing, non-conventional jobs are a must. Yet over and over again it was re-stated by countless “experts” and undistorted ole people that more and more, the new professional seeks Slot before they seek a specific JOB. This is presumably because our generation missed the industrial blast opportunities, and have had to naturally be more diverse in our ability sets. We’ve had to find jobs in often the strangest or most unexpected places decent to survive. We’ve had to school ourselves on diversified skills because there was no “training” for these things in disciples – schools that are still teaching skills for jobs that are now mostly out of date.
I guess that makes us the “Originative Class.” (Now if only some of us were getting paid what Richard Florida does for talking about our lives!) Evidently, though we were not doing it intentionally, we invented an unqualifiedly new class. Funny, we acclimatized to call it the “new grad in a bad economy at the end of an era” discernment. So what we inadvertently did was create our own husbandry where we bought and sold what we deemed to be “unheated.”
So it seems that now the older, more established (read: with in dough) class wants in on the secret - they deficiency “cool” in their city now. Does that mean they are accessible for executives in custom jeans, virgin Tshirts, funny-colored locks and an array of body art? What’s curious is that, you know what, I think they might actually be so panic-stricken now (at least in the rustbelt) that they are! It seems that thinking “surface the box” is now officially “in.”
What the customarily office, or un-office, looks like in Austin, TX where gaming designers employment was discussed, and how it certainly does not number among suits and short haircuts. Yet, these advanced programmers, animators, and unmistakeable designers are PAID. San Francisco and northwestern digital media hubs (known for being open granola communes) were also cited as thriving epicenters of “undisturbed.”
Austin, TX
I spoke on a panel entitled, “Making the Chapter: Music and Economic Development,” where noteworthy music festival directors from Austin, Detroit, New Orleans and the UK talked about how they “made the commotion” in their city, and how it did, or did not, help their cities’ economies whole.
Making the Scene
Photo courtliness Marvin Shaouni
It sure is good to see that music scenes are being recognized as animated parts of any city’s economy – an compactness of culture that is indeed sustainable - for as long as there are humans in a urban district, they are going to make authentic music, and all you have to do is find it, nurture it, and talk up it. If that’s not sustainable, I don’t know what is.
That’s where the adverbial phrase I took away from this conference comes in; “half of sustainability is discernment.” During this time when every other article and TV talk topic is about sustainability, during an unstable then, it seems to point right back to the basics – lifestyle. Economies of culture – nutriment, music, theatre, art, museums, festivals, film, dance, play, tourism, etc – will never become obsolete, they only evolve and change form. And the places where these things come about – where their creation takes bring down - on the regular are the places that will continue to see vibrant transport. Not to mention that these are also the places where inquiring minds suffer, discover and invent new things. (Not in Edward Scissorhands-trend ‘burbs by individuals in pods.)
However, what the “unexcitable-keepers” among us seemed to have to keep reiterating throughout is that you cannot originate “cool.” Drift, you can’t create cool – unexcitable just happens, organically, straightforwardly. In other words, forced unsociable will always fail – because it’s not authentic. And there’s the other huddle that kept surfacing all week – “trustworthy.” Maybe, just perhaps, these municipal big-wigs are starting to get it – generic “coolness” ain’t gonna cut it.
> Real savoir vivre; there just ain’t no substitute.
So it was interesting that there was a lot of talk about “art villages” and how cities should “forge” art villages in order to draw and retain talent, especially minor talent. So maybe there is still some extent for understanding here? One does not “generate” and art village – art villages generate themselves. However, what municipal groups and commerce associations can do is preserve, support, and back the ones that naturally sprout up – rather than bull-dozing them for casinos, or allowing out-of-city “developers” to buy up all the means and raise the rents through the roof so all the art is feigned out.
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