Creative City District Northern Tallinn

Herkko Labi / Telliskivi Creative City

The spatial and geographic mapping of Northern Tallinn which would provide an easy-to-follow overview of the activity of creative industries and its supportive structures in the area, also describing the character of urban space with traffic options, spatial obstacles and potential development directions.

OBJECTIVE 1

SALME: center of cultural activities with a long history, today doesn’t see any purpose to take part of creative industry concept

NIINE: first office building in Estonia which is filled with creative industry, still this has happened by itself and not in the

context of creative industry concept

TELLISKIVI: has used the concept, but after two years of development has started to focus on creating valuable public space with open events, many non-profit organizations besides creative industry

KATEL: formed as open space for creative industry development and culture innovation. Still in the process of construction, but already today has acknowledged that it has to step in interdisciplinary relations to gain reasonable spin-off projects of creative industry.

The theoretical and sociological examination of the area’s creative industries, which includes problem orientations as why creative industries prefer this area and what the greatest shortcomings are from the standpoint of the creative industries, also describing the center of creative industry from inside and analyzing currents, factors, phenomena which are not directly linked with creative industry but are more or less inseparable from it.

OBJECTIVE 2

Cheap price, attractive space

Creative industry

in the area

Co-operation in

the area

Image &myths

Localhabitant

Specific aspects of local urban

space

Passive to the CI concept

Similar values, but no dialog

Image is not linked with CI

Co-operation level is very low

between different local actors

FUTURE SCENARIOS ORWHAT CAN A CITY DO?

--> Organize unique communication channels for the different local actors to work/create/think/act together

--> Start and subsidise experiments which try to use creative industry potential and funding opportunities in developing and creating new concepts for (local) economy

--> Open more specific research that will analyze dialogue problems between different actors and propose concrete action plans

herkko@telliskivi.eu

Thank you!

www.telliskivi.eu/Loomemajanduse-uuring.pdf