Creative quarter

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Creative Quarter (also:. Art and Creative Quarter; English Creative Quarter ) is a method of urban renewal and structural change . Concepts for the development of creative quarters go u. a. back to the work The Creative City by British urban researcher Charles Landry (2000). But the creative quarter is not a protected term . There is also no definition of size and composition, but media reports repeatedly mention a variety of actors (also: conglomerate) and sometimes conflicting interests. The European and domestic funding programs often also contain definitions and objectives.

Emergence

The pattern for the emergence of creative quarters is the subsequent and interim use (also: appropriation) of industrial city quarters and of industrial areas with a high proportion of abandoned commercial space by cultural workers (“creatives”) with an affinity for the city. Abandoned military, port, railroad and wholesale market areas as well as hospitals also appear as locations. Creative quarters are therefore also seen as a phenomenon of a post- or post-industrial society . The spectrum of creative quarters ranges - as a bottom-up - from civic projects (example: Kreativkreis Ruhrort) and projects specifically designed for self-administration (also: autonomy) (example: Gängeviertel ) to - as top-down - commercial assemblies (example : Art and Creative Quarter at the Blumenhalle / Südliche Friedrichstadt, Berlin) and communal approaches to action in the social city .

Mainly, creative quarters are developed as publicly organized and funded urban planning instruments with different goals. The term is used in connection with classic urban renewal vocabulary such as revitalization and empowerment as well as with newer terms such as cultural and creative industries and creative urban milieus . On the other hand, “creative people” articulate an interest in not being instrumentalized as an “urban repair company” or for city ​​marketing and possibly even for competitive pressure from metropolises in an advancing globalization. They point out risks such as new precariousness or gentrification .

The question of whether creative quarters must be publicly subsidized on a permanent basis or whether they can make a sustainable contribution to the revitalization of urban districts that are subject to structural change seems to depend on whether these cities have a negative or a positive population balance. Only in growing cities does the cycle of appropriation, development and displacement, which is fraught with opportunities and risks, arise.

Demarcation

The creative quarter does not include any cultural sites that were created well before the “initial spark” or the formation of the term or that do not appear or do not want to appear in this context (example: Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien). On the other hand, under this term there are also renewal efforts for traditional cultural locations (example: Halfmannshof artists' settlement , Gelsenkirchen).

Creative quarters in Germany (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Janet Merkel (ed.): Creative quarters: Urban milieus between inspiration and precariousness . edition sigma, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89404-252-3 , pp. 178 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 2, 2017]).
  2. ^ Model for a sustainable Berlin . In: the daily newspaper , October 23, 2010, accessed on July 20, 2014.
  3. ↑ CURE - A network of European creative quarters. From: Creative City Berlin News , April 2, 2012, accessed on July 20, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Kreativkreis Ruhrort" ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kreativquartier.ruhrort.de
  5. ^ Art quarter at the flower hall. In: Immobilienzeitung , May 8, 2014, accessed on July 18, 2014
  6. ↑ Rescue the social city: Successful initiators for urban development: Creative quarters. ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. April 10, 2012, accessed July 18, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / Sozial-stadt-retten.de
  7. ↑ Markus Lanz, Kreativquartiere - Cities discover new impulses for their development, Goethe-Institut, January 2012 , accessed on July 18, 2014
  8. ↑ Dispute paper on the argument for a self-administered creative quarter . From: triptown , February 28, 2014, accessed July 18, 2014
  9. ↑ Frank Eckardt: Creative Quarters - The paradox of urban panung, without date and place. Cultural Management Association, accessed on July 18, 2014
  10. ↑ Stefan Laurin, Kreativquartiere: Much Ado About Nothing Ruhrbarone, August 9, 2010, accessed on January 31, 2015
  11. ↑ New study: creative industries generate less turnover in the Ruhr area. In: Ruhr Nachrichten , March 11, 2015, accessed on March 15, 2015.
  12. ↑ Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien
  13. ↑ Halfmannshof artists' settlement, Gelsenkirchen ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kreativquartier-halfmannshof.de
  14. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: A new type of city is to be created in the Werksviertel. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .