KumaTalks 2013 / City & Culture - Between Impact and Alibi_with Mustafa Tazeoğlu and Ivana Dragšič
The use and reinvention of urban spaces through cultural projects is booming. The concept of "Creative Cities" is enlisted equally by artists and city governments, foundations and NGOs as a starting point for new projects. With the hope of participation and dialogue, cultural projects seem to open up new spaces in urban contexts. But can cultural projects actually be methods of and stimulus for innovative urban development? Or are they rather used as a temporary "pretty showpieces"? And: how do artists and cultural actors deal with the challenges of constantly changing cities? Together with our two guests - Mustafa Tazeoğlu (Germany) and Ivana Dragšič (Macedonia) - we wanted to cast a critical eye over the approaches of "urban development through culture" in Europe.
Mustafa Tazeoğlu of Urban Rhizome operates - with regard to social structures - between urbanity, (inter)culturalism and economy. http://www.urban-rhizome.de/en
Ivana Dragšič works as an artist and political activist - with a focus on spatial structures - at the interface of art, political activism and urban planning.
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