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Posts tonen met het label creativiteit. Alle posts tonen

dinsdag 2 december 2014

Gebroken steden



Nog eentje dan. Uit weer een interessant William Gibson interview, dit keer in The Telegraph:

“What I find curious about that,” he says, “is that it suggests that what we, or I, most like about cities is what happens when they’re partially broken. Friends my age in New York have ferocious nostalgia for the city of the late Seventies, which was in some ways a dreadful place for many of its residents. When I returned to London as an adult in the early Eighties, it was wonderful, but it didn’t seem to be functioning up to par in terms of what one would have imagined its engineers and social designers had intended. But people were living vividly and very interestingly amid the bits that worked and there were all those things that happened in cities when there’s available interstitial space; funny, impossible little retail operations that were completely charming and interesting.” He pauses. “For a city to become completely functional and completely successful economically seems to kill all of that, and I can’t really see the way out of that as a paradox.”
Las laatst in het zondagssupplement van El País een artikel over Venetië en hoe toerisme de stad in een zielloos museum heeft veranderd. Niet zo fraai. Aan de andere kant: legacy steden (ha, dat kon ik niet weerstaan) passen in het idee dat geschiedenis nog een van de weinige dingen met waarde zullen zijn in Europa.

De lange introductie van Matthew Lindsday bij zijn artikel over Bowie's Diamond Dogs geeft een mooi en grimmig beeld van de begin jaren zeventig. Het anti-museum.

donderdag 26 december 2013

Steden en creativiteit



The "creative class" is a frozen archetype - one that does not boost the economy of global cities, as urban studies theorist Richard Florida argues, but is a product of their takeover by elites. The creative class plays by the rules of the rich, because those are the only rules left. Adaptation is a form of survival. But adaptation is a form of abandonment as well.

Goed artikel over de verstoorde relatie tussen steden en creativiteit met veel interessante links en een logische, enigszins positieve, conclusie (ik denk hier meteen aan een bepaald festival in Tilburg.) Het is een belangrijk thema dat parallel loopt aan retromania (waar ik eerder al naar hintte). Maar de terugkeer van het stadscentrum, wie had dat kunnen voorspellen in 1975?

maandag 6 mei 2013

De voor en tegens van muziektechnologie

No I can’t agree with technology or computers or software programs sucking life out of music. On the other hand, the computer – or I guess software – evolution has enabled a lot of musicians, a lot of people, to make music that otherwise wouldn’t be able to. Therefore a lot of people that shouldn’t be making music are now making music. I mean, that’s the downside. The upside is that you have a lot more creativity, a lot more ideas coming to the table. That’s what I’m interested in. I’m more interested in the positive and good ideas that come from technology as opposed to the people that aren’t talented or that have no skill just doing it to try to make money, or because they can. You have to take the bitter with the sweet, I guess.
Juan Atkins in South London Ordnance (via Factmag)