Art – techne – technique and technology – craft – art of war – something done well and for its own sake. Art – symbolic communication – also a technology from this angle – its origins in ritual and cult and magic. It still remains a form of technology – of symbolic communication – but [...]
The development of creative cluster in the west: urban regeneration, post-industrial city, entrepreneurship, bottom up The development of creative cluster in China: urban regeneration, post-industrial city, property development, top-down Introduction Creative cluster, has been the ‘hot potato’ for academics, city authorities and property developers across the world since the late 80s and early 90s. It [...]
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Architects become more and more into the idea of ‘soft infrastructure’. It seems clear to the architects that ‘soft infrastructure’ can only be defined when one tries to distinguish it with the ‘hard infrastructure’ – our transportation system, buildings, telephone lines and cables and so on. Soft infrastructure is therefore the opposite of this, it’s [...]
Key questions could be asked: why are incubators creative cluster in the Chinese context? What can creative clusters learn from incubators? There are a few areas worth investigating: 1. research on the buildings of incubators in urban regeneration process – using incubators as sites of promoting creativity and innovation. On the physical level, how are [...]
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