Transforming people, place, and technology : towards re-creative city

Abstract

This
session
is
titled
TRANSFORM!
Opportunities
and
Challenges
of
Digital
Content
for
Creative
Economy.
Some
of
the
key
concepts
for
this
session
include:
1. City
/
Economy
2. Creativity
3. Digital
content
4. Transformation
All
of
us
would
agree
that
these
terms
describe
pertinent
characteristics
of
contemporary
world,
the
epithet
of
which
is
the
‘network
era.’
I
was
thinking
about
what
I
would
like
to
discuss
here
and
what
you,
leading
experts
in
divergent
fields,
would
be
interested
to
hear
about.
As
the
keynote
for
this
session
and
as
one
of
the
first
speakers
for
the
entire
conference,
I
see
my
role
as
an
initiator
for
imagination,
the
wilder
the
better,
posing
questions
rather
than
answers.
Also
given
the
session
title
Transform!,
I
wish
to
change
this
slightly
to
Transforming
People,
Place,
and
Technology:
Towards
Re-­creative
City
in
an
attempt
to
take
us
away
a
little
from
the
usual
image
depicted
by
the
given
topic.
Instead,
I
intend
to
sketch
a
more
holistic
picture
by
reflecting
on
and
extrapolating
the
four
key
concepts
from
the
urban
informatics
point
of
view.
To
do
so,
I
use
‘city’
as
the
primary
guiding
concept
for
my
talk
rather
than
probably
more
expected
‘digital
media’
or
‘creative
economy.’
You
may
wonder
what
I
mean
by
re-­creative
city.
I
will
explain
this
in
time
by
looking
at
the
key
concepts
from
these
four
respective
angles:
1. Living
city
2. Creative
city
3. Re-­‐creative
city
4. Opportunities
and
Challenges
to
arrive
at
a
speculative
yet
probable
image
of
the
city
that
we
may
aspire
to
transform
our
current
cities
into.
First
let
us
start
by
considering
the
‘living
city.’