Ems - Summer I ’11 - T101 Lecture 12: Katie Birge- Creative Cities

Creative CitiesSummer Media Life, Indiana University

25 May 2011

Katie Birge, Department of Telecommunications

Overview

• Defining Creative Cities• Development of Creative Cities• Living a Media Life (in Creative

Cities?)• The Future of the Creative Class:

Tinkering Schools

“Where we live shapes how we live”

What are Creative Cities?

economic activity

prosperity

innovation

Silicon Valley, Cupertino, CA

30x10 mi strip between San Francisco and San Jose

Home of Stanford U’s Research Park, 1951 (HP, among others)

Headquarters to hundreds of other technology companies

Florida: “The World is Spiky.”

In a Media Life, place is becoming more virtual and less important.

“But thanks to the Internet, they're now able to live in Friedman's Flat World, collaborating and competing with other programmers around the world. And there are hundreds of thousands of other talents like them, scattered to the four corners of the globe. They don't figure on Florida's map, but any one of them can have an impact.”

-Chris Anderson

Technology Parks in Indiana:

innovation

prosperity

economic activity

Creative Cities in a Media Life Perspective

Shift from Geographic to Virtual

Shift from “things to buy” to “things to do” economy

Shift to “Things to Make” Economy

raising future generations of creatives: tinkering schools

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvHViFc0ekw&feature=related

In a Media Life, creativity can happen in ANY city.

Where will you go?