1 Rethinking online hyperlocal urbanisms and creativity Mark Bahnisch Creative Industries Faculty, QUT Fellow of the Centre for Policy Development 16 April 2009
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Rethinking online hyperlocal urbanisms and creativity
Mark BahnischCreative Industries Faculty, QUT
Fellow of the Centre for Policy Development
16 April 2009
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Contexts of the research
• Smart Services CRC – Social Media work package 04 – drivers of social media and user generated content– Bruns, A. & Bahnisch, M. (2009) Social Media Report 1: State
of the Art
• Centre for Policy Development, Eidos Institute and Brisbane CitySmart Innovation Festival– Creative Brisbane: Rethinking Innovation– Bahnisch, Bentley, Carroli, Choi & Westbury (2009,
forthcoming)– Event on 26 May– http://www.brisculture.com
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Online communities and urbanism/s
• Affinity proceeds community (cf Grant 2009)• Conclusions from MyHeimat – community can be
leveraged where locality and place are culturally central
• The obsolescence of the ‘local news’ model in the postmodern city
• Questions of social inclusion, community and place
• So, what is the city?
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What is the city?
• “The city is not an organism” (Marshall 2009: 132)• Digital urbanism/s are more than “augmented physical
spaces” (Aurigi & Di Cindio 2008)• The city is an assemblage of human and non-human,
lived and produced socially as spaces (Lefevre 1991)• The city is an imaginary (Prakash 2008)• Politics, the imaginary and utopia (Bahnisch 2009)• Urbanism is recombinative (Shane 2007)
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The recombinant city, digital culture/s and heterotopias
• Shane (2007)– Armatures, enclaves and heterotopias
• Shaping digital heterotopias– There are no ‘digital natives’ – Co-creating digital literacies (Hartley 2009)– The ‘creative city’ is not singular– Mapping the traces of urban affinities
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Many Brisbanes
http://phenomenologist.deviantart.com/gallery/
– Not “our” Brisbane but many Brisbanes
– The imaginative structure of the city
– Mobilities, affinity and place
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Many Brisbanes – the ‘creatives’
• Lea et al (2009), The Creative Tropical City– http://
www.creative.org.au/linkboard/results.chtml?filename_num=262563
• What are the wellsprings of creativity?
• How do heterotopias, armatures and enclaves intersect?
• What creates affinity?• Creativity beyond the
‘creatives’
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Research questions
• What are the specificities of place in Brisbane?
• How is the city imagined?• How can the imaginative
structure of the city be articulated to online communities, innovatively and inclusively?
• What place for affect in online spaces?
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Questions, comments, feedback
• Thanks!