Wed.15th, Dec. Keynotes and Plenary Speech

Opening Session 1, 10:30-15:20 *includes lunch break

Welcome Remark:

Opening Address:

Keynote Speech “Urban Regeneration through Cultural Creativeness and Social Inclusion”

Facilitator:

Session 2, 15:40-17:40

Plenary Speech “Perspectives from the new journal City, Culture and Society”

Coordinator:

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“Rethinking Urban Creativity”

Andy Pratt, Professor at Kings College London

Patrick Cohendet, Professor at the University of Strasbourg / Visiting Professor at HEC Montréal

Luciana Lazzeretti, Professor at the University of Florence

Seiji Hanzawa, Lecturer at Meiji Gakuin University

Kenkichi Nagao, Professor at the Graduate School of Economics, OCU

“Networking the Asian Urban Studies”

Binson Bussakorn, Associate Professor at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Nicolaas Warouw, Professor Assistant at Gadjah Mada University, Indonesea

Ying Fang Chen, Professor at East China Normal University, China

Wing Shing Tang, Professor at Hong Kong Baptist Univerity, Hong Kong

Jong Gyun Seo, Researcher at Korea Center for Urban and Environment Research, South Korea

Suzy Goldsmith, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne

Li-Ling Huang, Associate Professor at the National Taiwan University

Shin Nakagawa, Professor at the Graduate School of Literature, OCU

“Presentations by URP Research Fellows”

Audience Development and Successor Training in Japanese Traditional Performing Arts.

Accounting in Recycling Network Enterprises: Reflections on Capability-building.

The Experimental Investigation between Social Enterprise and Community-based Art.

Social Roles of Faith-Related Organizations in Homeless Support.

Ploblem of Mismatch between the Process of Securing Permanent Housing and Housing Policy for Single Mother Households in Japan. 

Laura Braslow, Hyun Bang Shin

Hong Gyu Jeon, Associate Professor at the Urban Research Plaza, OCU

“Perspectives of the AUC and its Prospects”

 

The broad purpose of the association for urban creativity (AUC) is to tap into creative knowledge of citizens in solving practical problems creatively and then combine this collected “citizen knowledge” with “academic knowledge” in order to create unexpected, but well-matching theories for urban studies.

In this session, we discuss presentations of the previous three days and aim to understand “citizen knowledge” reflected in activities of the AUC. In particular, we focus on social inclusion through arts and cultural creativity applied by the Asian Network of the Plaza. We also discuss potential ways to establish a new paradigm for theories on the creative city and what is the vision for creative city planning and urban administration.  

Masayuki Sasaki, Director of the Urban Research Plaza

Toshio Kamo, Professor at Ritsumeikan University, the former-director of the Urban Research Plaza

Conference Venue: The Osaka International House

In this symposium, we discuss to set forth new guidelines for the urban future in “the Century of Cities” in which key concepts like “sustainable city”, “compact city”, “postmodern city”, “mega-city” and more have been elaborated.

In the first day, we have keynote addresses and invitation ones. The former point out critical issues for urban regeneration based on cultural creativity and social inclusion. The latter consider the great possibility of innovative social practices created by the mixture between “academic knowledge” and “citizen knowledge” which is a central concern of the journal “City, Culture and Society”.

In the second day, experts sessions gives two round tables for researchers and professionals. Firstly, we discuss roles and policies of creative industry that makes full use of creativity of cultures and individuals. Secondly, the representatives of overseas sub-centers which are active bases of network through Asian region set up by URP argue actual practices for urban regeneration in their fields.

In the third day, firstly, we have the session in which URP research fellows present challenging cases studies on social inclusion on the base of artistic and cultural activities and their scientific possibility. Lastly, in the final session, confronted urban problems in Osaka and other large cities, we indicate the role of AUC and suggest a new perspectives for urban theory and policies in future.

City, Culture and Society, edited by URP, was published in this year from Elsevier, the world’ leading publisher for academic journals. The journal aims to stimulate a new interdisciplinary paradigm that embraces multiple perspectives and applies this paradigm to the urban imperative that defines this century.

This International Symposium targets on foundation of a new international academic society, the Association for Urban Creativity (AUC) to produce an inter-disciplinary project based innovative paradigm.

Urban Research Plaza (URP) in Osaka City University is a new type of research and educational institution. We put the importance on local and international networking and are building network consisted of fields plaza throughout Osaka City and overseas sub-centers in Asia.

In 2007, URP was selected as Global Center of Excellence by Japan’s ministry of education, culture, sports, science and technology (MEXT).