Against the background of the new attractiveness of urban centers, creatives are becoming more important as potential sources of inspiration for various urban development processes. On the one hand, the activation or participation of these creatives is important to include their innovative potential in various development processes, on the other hand they show an increasing interest in the development of their city and are demanding their participation. Even in Tokyo, creative people are a relatively hidden but important part of the larger creative ecosystem that is made up of many different influential interest groups (e.g. state,
city authorities, large corporations and foreign investors), all active to contribute to its functioning.
Against the background of the new attractiveness of urban centers, creatives are becoming more important as potential sources of inspiration for various urban development processes. On the one hand, the activation or participation of these creatives is important in order to incorporate their innovative potential into various development processes; on the other hand, creatives are showing increasing interest in the development of their city and demanding their participation. In Tokyo, too, creatives are a relatively hidden but important part of the larger creative ecosystem, made up of many different influential stakeholders (e.g., government, city authorities, large corporations, and foreign investors) who all actively contribute to its functioning.
Creative actors occupy a unique metaposition between the two worlds of creativity as they are both part of the everyday neighborhood as well part of the larger economic system in which they (want to) thrive. This is why Tokyo’s creatives can also be referred to as ‘mediators’ who represent a bridge between the two dimensions of Tokyo’s creative ecosystem, as their hybrid, bidirectional role is very important to enable the exchange between systematic / economic and neighborhood creativity.
To illuminate and better understand the urban transformation of Tokyo, different neighborhoods in Tokyo are presented and ‘walked through’ to understand how the environment-bound creativity as a collective network resource has and will influence the urban development of Tokyo, especially during and after the Covid-19 pandemic.
The talk will take place on 31 March 2021, 16-17.30pm Tokyo time, please register here: