Date: 2–3 July 2021
Time: Day 1 (July 2) 10:00–11:50 h (CET) / 17:00–18:50 h (JPT); Day 2 (July 3) 10:00–12:00 h (CET) / 17:00–19:00 h (JPT)
Type: Symposiom
Location: online
Topics: Smart Cities, Cultural Policies
A smart city, attracting the interest of people across the world, is a concept which has not yet been fully realized; instead, it opens up interpretations, discussions and embodiment.
In collaboration with the Swiss Embassy in Japan, the Zurich Centre for Creative Economies and the Tokyo University of the Arts (Faculty of Fine Arts) will invite scholars and practitioners from differing fields from Switzerland, Japan and abroad, and explore fundamental questions relating to a smart city through the lens of arts, culture and creativity. To what extent is smart city the current direction of today's cities? How is smart city transforming and impacting the creative and cultural clusters in urban areas? Can we use 'creativity' as another integral component of the city and does 'creativity' have the potential to be the invigorating force of urban experiences? This symposium will attempt to identify the roles and potentiality of arts, culture, and creativity while developing ideas to actualize a smart city.
We will also explore the influence of the pandemic upon arts and culture in the context of Tokyo. In response to the global outbreak of COVID-19, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games has been postponed to 2021. The impact of this once-in-a-hundred-years pandemic is affecting people's lives tremendously. Under these circumstances, what kind of roles does the Cultural Olympiad play? What will the new normal do for arts and culture?
Keynotes/ Panelists: Ryuji Fujimura (Japan), Kazuo Fujino (Japan), Desmond Hui (Hong Kong), Tally Katz-Gerro (Israel), Hidetoshi Ohno (Japan), Andy C Pratt (UK), ruangrupa (Indonesia), Consuelo Sáizar (Mexico)
Panelists: Akitoshi Edagawa (Japan), Yusaku Imamura (Japan), Frédéric Martel (France/Switzerland), Torao Ohsawa (Japan), Christoph Weckerle (Switzerland)
Case Studies: Benoit Gufflet / Dimitry Kremps (France), Andrés Herrera (Argentina / Spain), David Lavaud (France), Nathan Marcel-Millet (France), Fabien Oderbolz (Switzerland), Abbas Saad (Lebanon), Jing Su (China)
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