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P27_the International Perspectives
A programme, which focuses on what urban functions of activities and facilities are important for Randstad Holland and consequently contribute to its international image.The International Perspectives (tIP) consist of a series of seven public lectures with inspiring international speakers, and seven private expert meetings, which displays inspiring examples of urban functions in the metropoles of the world. The series will take place from September 2o11 to March 2o12 and are organised around 7 themes: cultural clusters, knowledge clusters, flagship developments, self-organising city, social network city, international organisations and attractive city.
tIP is organised in cooperation with the various universities in Randstad Holland. The tIP results will be input for the final debate and a publication, both planned for spring 2o12
Related project: P23_Defining the Metropolis
2o11, Randstad Holland, The Netherlands
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tIP 03|07 Flagship Developments @ UVA
Paul Lecroart is a Senior Urban Planner at the Urban Planning and Development Institute in the Paris Ile-de-France Region, working on various (sub)regional assignments. He studied the impact of major events on world cities and currently researches large scale urban development in 15 different European cities. Paul Lecroart has examined these developments from various perspectives. Firstly, he has looked at how these developments fit into the economic, social, environmental and spatial ambitions of the metropolitan area. Secondly, he has looked at the implementation of these projects: how they are planned, managed and delivered. Finally, he has looked at how a major event can give an impulse to the development of urban areas and the collaboration of various parties at different levels.
Photo by Fred Ernst“Flagship Developments demonstrate a big symbolic capacity: not just through huge icons and mega events, but also as strong symbols which relate to urban histories. It is therefore important to take the individual identity of cities into account when implementing these type of projects.”
“Flagship projects exist due to the public debate surrounding them: public participation, at the right scale, combined with media, cultural and social organisations is what keeps them alive.”
“The La Défense story illustrates how, for first time ever, the working scale was altered. Unlike before, where developments were strictly run by the dominating axes, developments were now created through connections: connections between local centres of activity and between local drivers of development. For La Défense, this was a whole new way of thinking about the area: its changed the scope and perspective of development and highlighted the importance of the interdependencies between people in the local area and Central Paris. The lesson thus shows that scale can change according to the work you plan to do.”
“Seoul Downtown Renaissance has hugely impacted mobility in the city. Although there is less traffic, there is now more mobility. The city managed to achieve this primarily by working on their traffic management: they changed their bus system and introduced a new rapid transit bus, improved parking and introduced incentives to walk or use the transit bus, such as taxing cars with less than 2 passengers.”
The report of the lecture and expert meeting held at the University of Amsterdam on Novembre 03 and 04, 2011. can be downloaded here.
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tIP 02|07 Social Network City @ UU
Christian Licoppe is Head of the Social Science Department and Professor of Sociology at Telecom Paris-Tech. Christian Licoppe has been researching the influence and potentials of locative media and games on ‘real’ urban environments. From a sociological standpoint, he has looked at the technological side of urban space, combining ‘real’ versus virtual worlds and seeing whether this combination offers a new way of social interaction. He argues that these new forms of social media can produce new environments of interaction, where urban public places can transform into ‘hybrid ecologies’.
Photo by Fred Ernst“Locative media can be defined as media in which people interact with some kind of locative awareness. In other words, locative media always involves some configurative media in which people disclose their location.”
“A hybrid ecology manages and incorporates the interplay between a digital positional awareness of space in relation to a real, physical experience of place.”
“After all, in both places, the norm is to not address strangers in public places. The main difference between the way in which the game was played in Tokyo and Paris thus lies in the way that people made exceptions to the rule.”
"The research has shown that multiple types of encounter are possible in hybrid ecologies. Digital encounters can take on many different forms in proximity-aware games and these can potentially change behavioural and mobility practices in urban public places. Location clearly has a great influence on the behavioural patterns when it comes to these games, as seen in both the Japan and France cases. The potential of these games can therefore really give us a new understanding of urban surroundings and its use."The report of the lecture and expert meeting held at the Utrecht University on October 13 and 14, 2011. can be downloaded here.
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tIP 01|07 Cultural Clusters @ TUD
Bernd Fesel is the Deputy Director of the European Centre for the Creative Economy (ECCE). This institute came about from the Ruhr European Capital of Culture (ECoC) event in 2010, for which Bernd Fesel was the advisor for the Creative Industry. His organisation supports, facilitates and tries to crosslink the creative economies in the Ruhr region, both at a local and regional scale.
Photo by Marco de Swart“The Cultural Capital allows processes to start which would otherwise be debated for ten years and never come to the point of ‘and now we do it’. So the European Capital of Culture allows you to say ‘if we don’t do it now, we will never do it.”
“If you don’t make the angles of urban development visible; if you don’t tell the story of artist and their power to change cities, you have no chance to really foster the process.”
“The value of time thus becomes very clear. Overall, it is also important to realise that to have a successful and sustainable event, the city or region should be large enough and diverse enough in its understanding of what culture is. It needs to take on a broad, open understanding of culture and have a relatively dense programme in order to make the coordination of the different groups possible.”
"Another important factor about cooperation is that, as the prisoners’ dilemma in economic theory teaches us, one can only move forward and achieve one’s goals by working together and helping each other out. Not cooperating is far more expensive than the risk of cooperating. And to avoid the feelings of anxiety towards cooperating, people should realise that cooperation is a never-ending game. To move up a level, cooperation is always required and this is the definition of sustainability."The report of the lecture and expert meeting held at the Delft University of Technology (TUD), Faculty of Architecture on the 22nd and 23rd of September, 2011 can be downloaded here.
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