Creative sydney festival 2010 networks and clusters
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NETWORKS + CLUSTERS Chris Gibson Professor in Human Geography Deputy Director Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER) University of Wollongong
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NETWORKS + CLUSTERS
Chris GibsonProfessor in Human Geography
Deputy DirectorAustralian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER)
University of Wollongong
THE GEOGRAPHY OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
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International theorising – to the point of cliché? - ‘buzz’ + element of ‘hip’ + population density = ‘edgy’ inner-city districts - Ex-industrial warehouse areas - Gentrifying, historically working-class neighbourhoods - Student suburbs – proximity to campuses
“It is a network of artists working in the building – this building has given Sydney generations of artists” Jess Cook
“I started working in the building because of the community –the collaborations in here are pretty unique and exciting” Honi Ryan
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Emphasis on milieu: people-watching keeping up with trends working collaboratively through commercial and social networks Hibernian House, Surry Hills: - ‘creativity seems to breed creativity, with many of the artists collaborating on projects’
THE GEOGRAPHY OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
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Creative places: a new policy fad Promote ‘creative clusters’ as place regeneration strategy Legitimation of inner-city café culture/hip retail Designated creative districts/hubs/cultural precincts
Sheffield, UK
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Cannot resolve the gentrification paradox: creative pioneers → cultural capital → property market rises and speculation → displacement of creative artists (fringe first, then eventually all except the most established/wealthy creatives who serve the propertied elite) In fact, creative-city policy-making might actually fuel this paradox and therefore inhibit creativity
“The Centrepiece Queer Collective have been living in [the old
Marrickville Hospital site] for a month. They say they have been
forced to squat in the site because of the lack of affordable housing and
studio space in the inner west”
“new businesses read like a list from Christian Lander’s popular blog ‘Stuff White People Like’: an organic farmers market, artist warehouses, Thai restaurants and coffee shops”
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Marrickville – ‘the new Paddington’ Space shortage and costs – fringe groups forced out – or forced to squat creative use of warehouse spaces – some sympathy from MCC – but issues of regulation, insurance, cost
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Creativity-led sterilisation of cities: McHattan, New York, now Brooklyn too Sydney’s new white ghettos: Annandale, Newtown Time poverty: 1970s London vs 2010 London Not enough crap creativity Middle-class, white, apolitical, urban aesthetics and desires: the world as General Pants
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Gibson, C and Brennan-Horley, C (2006) ‘Goodbye pram city: beyond inner/outer zone binaries in creative city research’, Urban Policy and Research, 24, 4, 455-471
Figure 1: Distribution of total creative work in Sydney (by industry), expressed as a percentage of SLA employed labour force, collected by place of residence, 2001
(Source: ABS custom data run)
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Ignores the possibility that there are other, more complex geographies of creativity Reinforces the idea of a creative inner-city versus creatively ‘arid’ suburbia (and beyond) → Pram City – creativity in the suburbs
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Figure 2: Rate of change in creative industry employment, collected by place of residence, expressed as a percentage of SLA employed labour force, 1986-2001
(Source: ABS custom data run)
Gibson, C and Brennan-Horley, C (2006) ‘Goodbye pram city: beyond inner/outer zone binaries in creative city research’, Urban Policy and Research, 24, 4, 455-471
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Figure 3: Rate of change in creative work by industry, by place of employment, expressed as a percentage of Sydney’s total creative workforce, 1991-2001
(Source: ABS custom data run)
Gibson, C and Brennan-Horley, C (2006) ‘Goodbye pram city: beyond inner/outer zone binaries in creative city research’, Urban Policy and Research, 24, 4, 455-471
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Ignores the possibility that there are other, more complex geographies of creativity Darwin – the multilayered creative city
Parap
Inner city
Winnellie
City centre-suburb interactions
• Where is creative Sydney?
→ catch and release experiment
