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■Sat Sept 5 - Working group session III
“Creativity and visions for the city”


10:00 - 13:00
Yokohama Port Opening
Memorial Hall
(Auditorium)
III-1. Community regeneration and creativity
Throughout the world, social entrepreneurs and others try to meet social and local needs by generating innovative techniques. We can learn a lot just from their work to tackle issues with creative ideas, but it is also important to seek and share frameworks and mechanisms to support and spread their efforts. How can we create contexts and environments where creative activities will naturally arise? What kinds of organizational frameworks and networks are needed? Discussions will be based on the current situation in various countries.

Discussion points:
・ What are the best organizational frameworks or support systems?
⇒ Is collaboration with the government most important? Or with business enterprises? What are the benefits of urban development entities? In South Korea, where social enterprises have been explicitly defined and given judicial personality by law, what changes have been experienced in terms of organizational framework?
・ Organizational framework (networking with other entities and community groups)
・ Support systems including the funding mechanism
・ Collaboration with government (legislative framework)
・ What kinds of mechanisms are effective to publicize and further develop activities?   
 What opportunities favourably led the organizations to their current activities?

Panellists:
Lee Eun-Ae, Managing Director, Work Together Foundation
Lucky Chhetri, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Empowering women of Nepal and 3 Sisters Adventure Trekking
Matt Peacock, Chief Executive, Streetwise Opera
Todd Porter, Curator, TEDxTokyo and the Innovators Greenhouse

Commentator:
NISHIYAMA shiho, Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Graduate School of Sustainable Society Studies, Yamanashi University

Coordinator:
OKABE tomohiko, Representative Director, Kotolab.LCC

14:30〜17:00
Yokohama Port Opening
Memorial Hall
(Auditorium)
III-2. Spatial Strategies for Culture
Today we are transitioning from a period of growth to a period of contraction and maturity. For this reason, cities are seeking urban visions adapted to the new urban and industrial structures. As has been brought to light by waterfront development projects in port cities where harbor and industrial areas have been transformed into zones that combine cultural institutions and new industries, a well-defined spatial strategy for culture is essential for a new city vision. This working group will focus its discussions on the role of spatial strategies for culture in developing visions of the city that differ radically from previous ones.

Discussion points:
・ Changes required in industrial and urban structures in order to adapt to the coming period
・ Development of urban spaces where culture is created
・ How to integrate spatial strategies for culture into the urban strategy of the 21st Century
・ Possibilities for international joint research in such areas as urban strategy and development of city visions

Panellists:
Kees Christiaanse, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
Lin Chung-Chieh, Director, Urban Design Division, Urban Development Department of Taipei City Government
KITAZAWA takeru, Professor, Socio-cultural Environment, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo

Commentators:
Jung Hyung Lee, Associate Professor, Chung Ang University
KITAYAMA koh, Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, University of Yokohama
TAKIGUCHI noriko, Freelance journalist, lives in Silicon Valley, correspondent for several Japanese publications and TV stations

Coordinator:
SUZUKI nobuharu, Associate Professor, Yokohama Entrepreneurial Development, Interdisciplinary Studies, Yokohama City University

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