In a keynote speech delivered at the Creative Cities Summit 2.0 in Detroit, Michigan urban innovator Charles Landry, author of The Creative City and The Art of City Making, shares his knowledge on the value of creativity in city making.
Part I: The art of city making is conviviality

Originally published by Cluster, written by Cristina Lobnik

http://www.urbanplay.org/
Every city has its creative minds pondering about ways to diversify their cities, making them more colorful, livable and interactive, expressing pleasure as well as comfort.
Experimental projects like Torino Colors, an urban chromatic mapping method, and Urban Play, an international city project that aims to inspire citizen’s creativity, [...]

Ph15 is formed by a group of photographers that believe in education through visual arts and using them as a mean of social inclusion.
Ph15 offers workshops that possess a completely innovative character, so much for the didactics of work as for being an experience that makes possible a space for integration, development of the identity [...]

Orignially published on Mute Magazine, written by Simon Yuill, reblogged by Cluster

Image: Black Artists’ Group, St Louis
If relational aesthetics and open source were always commercial, can the musical score provide a way of thinking through different relationships between creativity and code? The return to improvisation in ‘livecoding’ draws parallels with experimental practices developed by maverick [...]