MAO – Music, Art, Festivals and More

ART, MUSIC, FESTIVALS and MORE: official site: http://www.maolive.com/ Shanghai MAO: http://www.douban.com/host/maosh/ Beijing MAO: http://www.douban.com/host/maolivehouse/  

M50 (Shanghai, China)

Interview in M50 Xue Song (first artist in M50): I chose here because it’s close to where I live. I wanted to find a work studio near my home. M50 used to be a factory so it offers the ideal settings as an art studio. Hou: M50 brings good karma for us, but it was [...]

1933 (Shanghai, China)

Also known as: ‘Old Millfun’ City: Shanghai  District: Hong Kou Address: Sha Jing Road, No. 29 and No. 10 Industries: Creativity as Lifestyle Consumption Management structure: -    Leaser: Shanghai Creative Industries Investment Co., Ltd; Shanghai JinJiang International Development Group. Since 2006, it becomes 1933 – ‘old millfun’. -    Landlord: since 1970, Shanghai Great Wall Biochemical-pharmaceutical [...]

Visual Research Method

Cluster Flickr Site: Designing creative clusters Tian Zi Fang Video:

Scenarios of the aftermath

So the question is what’s going to happen to these new, edgy, interesting urban spaces after the very expensive make over and all sorts of crude economic experiments being carried out in them. Property developers come and go, so often is the case within government where a change of new face might mean a complete [...]

Creative clusters as new public-private venture

Some scholars have chosen to see it as cluster led creative industries development strategy. But to me, calling it a creative industries development strategy is mis-taken view caused by the lack of insider’s knowledge of what really are the activities that taking places in these so-called creative clusters. In almost every cluster I visited, I [...]

It doesn’t matter what it’s called, the important thing is to make money!

In the year 2005 when I was doing my PhD in Manchester UK, I was introduced to a group of city officials, cultural entrepreneurs and education professionals from Shanghai who were exclaimed to learn the concept of ‘creative industries’, strategies of promoting these industries in the city and how ‘creative cluster’ work from the country [...]

Cluster typologies based on different management model

Suzhou river creek art district It’s a warehouse art led urban gentrification model. Four existing warehouse in this area is Deng Kun Yan’s warehouse (supposedly the first attempt in renovating the warehouse and turning it into a art centre type of thing); the shanghai nightmare project (temporary use in creative functions); the four banks warehouse [...]

Incubators as Creative Clusters – cases from Shanghai

The building of Science and Technology Parks (recently named ‘incubators’) has always led the trend in urban regenerations process in China. In the new round of creative industries developments in the city, creative clusters have taken up to be the new favour although most of the cluster development models are still based on the Incubator’s [...]

Creative Clusters in Shanghai – an overview

I was given the task to map out creative clusters in Shanghai as a pilot study of this ARC linkage project.  This has proved to be very useful both in terms of understanding clusters on the physical level and in terms of its relationship with the rest of the urban space, but it has proved [...]