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Cultural interventions in cities
- resilience in connections of policy and micro-innovations
Oleg KoefoedAction-philosopher
Cultura21
City-Link CongressHamburg
September 2014
Swimmers jump in the harbour, Copenhagen, January 2014 – Sharing Copenhagen 14
Pre-face: 5 fields of recirculation through culture
Time
Matter
Space
Work/Bodies
Knowledge
Out of Marketand...Swap
Give awayCo-produce
Buy, invest, shareNew modelsParticipating
Etc..
Resilience in CPH – climate threat
Violent material Flows = possible collapse
Collapse? Not here!
Inertia + good life beats deep changes
But CPH = city of good life
Money for building, roads, canals, metros.. culture?
Man watches Lyngbyvejen after rain, Copenhagen, July 2013
Macro (top-down): investments, sales, branding, marketing, clients, stakeholders..
Micro (bottom-?): experiments, connecting, citizens, spaces, places..
(..and cultural agents struggling to survive while doing this of course)
Sharing Copenhagen 2014
Bike bridge over Copenhagen Canal, near Islands Brygge – Sharing Copenhagen '14
An Open City? core values in CPHGrowth: population, entreprises, economy ← Attraction!
Sustainable city: CPH 2025 + CO2 neutral by 2050 (possible clash with 1)
Livability: democracy, culture, green&blue, clean
Active citizenship and citizen-driven innovation (or inclusion)
About 42 % of Copenhageners ride bikes to work – beware of traffic jams!
Policy agendas in CPH
Paradox 1: established status vs difference through innovation?
Promoting success of Copenhagen → growth by green
Branding the city → attraction by consumption
Paradox 2: enabling cultural and innovative agents – service / seduction?
Enabling citizen choices for sustainability: Agenda21
Paradox 3: public servants serve their decision makers, rather than citizens?
Copenhagen hosted a fashion summit for sustainability this year in April.
Relations of macro and micro
Power – core values, policies, instruments
Institutional – departments, companies, micro-agents, networks
Instruments – economic, political, social, natural, cultural
Discrepancies between strategy, policy, and instruments?
Copenhagen municipality at Islands Brygge – technical and environmental dept.
Resilience is about avoiding or handling release!
Intermezzo: the adaptive cycle
Gunderson et al, 2002 – read more here
The power of Cultural interventions
Culture is a field of big investments
Culture increases intimacy
High complexity makes it difficult to calculate cultural effects
Blurred trajectories A-B-C-D?
The Eurovision contest ended up wit a deficit of app 15 mio Euro. - who will pay, and why?
The creatives in Copenhagen
Rise of maker class
Everyone's an instrument!
Highly adaptive
The temporary – neither nor
Optimism and efficacy
Advocates of the good life? - or of Community building?
Relaxing on Paper Island / Copenhagen Street Fodd
Resilience = capacity to turn threats into resources + absorbing change
Cultural intervention can INCREASE or INHIBIT this (?)
Resilience and culture
“World's longest lunchtable”, Odsherred Kulturefestival 2013
World view of an average Dane: resilience?
“Together we stand”
“The good life” “Beyond the tipping point”
“The new life”
GROWTH RELEASE
CONSERVATION
REORG
ANIZATION
A B
CD
WHAT IS THE ROLE OF CULTURE? WHAT DO YOU DO?
Micro-innovations: Vild Festival – a taste of urban nature
Wild food in the commons – hedonism + hip + education
Partnership + support + pay for food = viable
We are having fun – but where are the masses?
What is culture? What is its role? Its effect?
http://www.resalliance.org/index.php/adaptive_cycle
Vild Festival, Sharing Copenhagen 2014
Micro-innovations: Innosite/Into the Wild – tamed innovations
Lack of intimacy // lack of challenge // blurred aim // sympathetic but shallow
Entry for Innosite competition “Into the Wild”,2014
Micro-innovations: Eco Island Amager – slow innovation
Linking to places and people
Results can take years
Transmission of agency and identityEco Island Amager, Cultura21 & Sharing Copenhagen, 2014
Sustainable Cultural Policy / Culture of Sustainability
Makers and other creative agents.. how much do they care?
Workers.. solutions.. brands like match.com..
Precarious labour – of course!
Bridging interest gaps between short-term economy, cold-headed arch/planing, sust demands and cultural intervention-intensity
Interest from e.g. Nordic Council → next step?
Or should we forget about culture and just do it?
Too many questions and not enough answers..
..and everything else is business-as-usual
Instrument or movement?
No one floats freely – we are all instruments
Intimacy makes a difference
Wind power off the beach on Amager, Copenhagen July 2014