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May 07 - Magazine article on 'Creative Siberia'
Roy Jones, Director of Pacificstream on'his bike' - article published in April 07 following the CI workshop.
March 07 - The development of 'Creative Siberia'
Roy Jones, Director of Pacificstream with the Deputy Mayor of Krasnoyarsk following a presentation to the City Hall on the British Council's proposals for the develpment of the Creative Industries in the region.
Presentations:
"CI: Re-Thinking and Re-Imagining the City" - download pdf here
"Creative Clusters: Competitiveness & Success in the Post-Industrial World" - download pdf here
Krasnoyarsk Gallery click here
The goal of the proposed project:
To contribute to positive social changes in Russia by brining CI approach and expertise to Siberia region from the UK
Aim:
To develop an efficient model for creative clusters initiation & development in the industrial cities of Siberia
Objectives:
- To train 4 teams of change agents capable of starting, developing, sustaining and disseminating creative clusters in their cities (Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Irkutsk)
- To develop Creative Agency model in support of creative cluster, creative network, creative community and creative individuals
- To design a mechanism enabling local creative businesses support
- To facilitate the establishment of Creative clusters in the four Siberian cities
- To contribute to creative community and networking development in Siberia
Outputs:
- UK expertise of post industrial areas re-generation disseminated to Russia via appropriate adjustment to local contexts
- Positive long-term partnership established between the North West of England and Siberia
- CI recognised by local policy makers in Siberia as a meaningful tool for post-industrial areas regeneration
- CI viewed as a means for making industrial cities in Siberia comfortable for their citizens, creating unique image of a city, serving a good ground for winning in the world’s competition of cities
Jan 07 - Pacificstream is now part of the Euromed Network for Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures
The Foundation is the first common institution jointly established and financed by all 35 members of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. This far reaching partnership between the European Union and their partners in the southern Mediterranean region was launched at the Barcelona Conference in 1995. The declaration adopted at Barcelona strongly promotes regional cooperation in the economic, social and cultural fields.
The establishment of the Foundation in the ancient Egyptian seaport city of Alexandria underlines the commitment of the partners to work for increased cooperation and solidarity.
The Middle East as well as the southern and eastern Mediterranean region form an area of vital strategic importance to the European Union. The general objective is to transform the Mediterranean basin into a common area of peace, stability and prosperity.
The Foundation's main objective is to bring people and organizations from both shores of the Mediterranean closer to each other and to help bridging the gap between them. Particular importance is given to the development of human resources, while youth is the main target group.
Another priority is the promotion of tolerance among people by furthering exchanges between members of the diverse civil societies. The Foundation acts as Network of 35 national networks established by the Euro-Mediterranean partners.
For more information see: http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/euromed/euromed_foundation/index.htm
Dialogue between Cultures is essentially a dialogue between human beings, not between anonymous cultural entities. Present and future generations must, therefore, be given the instruments for dialogue. In the Euro-Mediterranean region, they need to be provided the opportunity to learn at least one foreign language, preferably more, and to acquire knowledge about all religions and cultural traditions that have shaped this region as crossroads of civilisations.
Jan 07 - Pacificstream joins CONSEN
CONSEN coop born in December of 2006 as the spin-off of the CONSEN EEIG Euro-Group A.E.I.E. with the aim to migrate and boost the grouping of members to a real business cooperation in the recent SCE legal form.
CONSEN coop is committed to the evolution of a networked world in which everything is smart and connected in a complex, ubiqutous and distributed - MeshUp - as information and communication environment which electronical micro-devices are first capable of generating and memorizing meaningful information and second capable of interacting and cooperating among themselves and with the external world for a effective, affective and assisted living and working ambient.
CONSEN coop works toward a networked world, in collaboration and cooperation, in reseach, development, promotion and business, for working, trading, learning and living.
CONSEN coop is part of CONSEN EEIG and actively support its mother company in Innovation and Technology reasearch project to developped solutions focused on Information, Communication and knowledge Society technologies.
CONSEN coop - in process of constitution and registration - is building a Open-Source community of cooperants, partners, and collborators and members to share, manage and exploit jointly their shared pool of knowledge and catalog of competences.
Oct 06- Pacificstream coordinates the Leonardo VIC Pilot Project
Initial meeting at Digitalinc, Liverpool
Sept 06- Seminar on the Creative Industries Development - Krasnoyarsk September 19th – 21st 2006
A brief report
Click here for pdf
Jan 06- Photographs of the Vircouns Liverpool meeting
Click here for links to photo gallery
Jan 06 - On Spatial Aspects of European Cultural Policy
[Non-additive European networking and 'excursionism' ('ekskursionistika')]
Click here for links to pdf
June 05 - Photographs of the Vircouns Vienna meeting
Click here for links to photo gallery
June 05 - Photographs of the Siberian Rock Scene
Click here for links to photo gallery
May 05 - Photographs by Yuri Antonov
Yuri works at Radiotechnic, a youth arts and culture organisation in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. The young people there produce exciting multimedia work under the direction of Yuri and his colleagues.
APRIL 05 - Report of visit to Siberia
This was a very stimulating and enjoyable visit to the city of Krasnoyarsk, a relatively remote region which appears keen to establish international partnerships. The discussions were productive, the hospitality was superb, and thanks go to the British Council Russia for facilitating the visit.
Click here to read the report
MARCH 05 - DIGEX/ is off to Siberia
Roy Jones
has been invited to represent Merseyside by the British Council to
advise on the development of the ICT and creative industries in
Krasnoyarsk.
Click here
to see the article in Febuary Mersyside ICT Newsletter.
MARCH 05 - DIGEX/ is to work with LYNfabrikken
LYNfabrikken is situated in Aarhus, Demnark's second city and is devoted to extend people's knowledge of the arts, craft and design. Digex will be working with the Design Initiative in the NW and LYNfabrikken to help develop OPN> NETwork an online database of European designer makers.
Click http://www.lynfabrikken.dk to link to LYNfabrikken's web site and for more information on OPN>
MARCH 05 - eCulture Workshop Wednesday 16th March 2005 Natural History Museum London
About 100 delegates attended including representatives from Germany, Italy, Israel, Luxembourg and Liverpool!
Mainly academics but some SMEs, BBC, DCMS, ACE and museums.
Keynote speaker was Pat Manson, Head of Learning and Culture Unit, EC. She went over the main points of the work programme for the new call that will take place in May 2005. Deadline September 2005. With a target for projects to start May/June 2006.
- How to provide users with simple means of accessing and using digitised content
- Developing technologies to enable the maintenance of the digital heritage
- Less emphasis on capture with a shift to conceptualisation, models and access
- Strong relationship to knowledge technologies
- Towards more participative and creative use of cultural heritage by citizens and by cultural institutions, at all levels, through creative, online communities.
An indicative budget of 42 Meuros
Full set of ppt slides will be available on the Information Society Technologies web site:
Other important speakers were:
Prof David Arnold, University of Brighton, Coordinator of EPOCH a current eCulture project.
Alberto del Bimbo, University of Florence
Presentations by prospective proposers were the least successful aspect of the day as most of the academics just wanted to present their latest research. However, two of the most interesting were:
Stefano Tagliaferri
Pf2 Software Sri
Naples, Italy
Merav Mack
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Al Quds University
Cambridge Research
http://www.cambridgeresearch.co.uk/
Scheduled information day – 16th June Luxembourg.
Creative Industries Krasnoyarsk
To contribute to positive social changes in Russia by bringing Creative Industries approach and expertise to Siberia region from the UK and to develop an efficient model for creative clusters initiation & development in the industrial cities of Siberia
Report by Roy Jones on the way forward for the creative industries in the region
Seminar on the Creative Industries Development
Krasnoyarsk
September 19th – 21st 2006
A brief report by Roy Jones MFA
Why develop the creative industries…
The creative industries can bring wealth, opportunity, employment and regeneration to local, regional and national economies. This has been proved in the way the CIs have contributed to the regional NW economy. Supported companies move out of agency environments and achieve sustainable commercial success in their own right.
A creative industry agency can address the following major shortfalls in existing business support:
- Traditional areas of business support are not geared up to dealing with creative businesses;
- There are challenges with persuading talented entrepreneurs of the importance of commercial skills and;
- There are challenges with clients about the worth of their Intellectual Property
What is the definition of the creative industries?
“…those industries which have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent and which have a potential for wealth and job creation through the generation and exploitation of intellectual property.”
This includes the following sectors: Advertising, Architecture, Crafts, Design, Designer Fashion, Film and Video, Interactive Leisure Software, Music, Performing Arts, Publishing, Television and Radio and in addition the cultural heritage, tourism and museum industries are identified as being closely related to the creative industries.1
The development of an agency or incubator…
The potential users of a Creative Industries agency will be emerging entrepreneurs, young startup companies, graduates from art and design schools, enterprise training organisations and specialised business advisors within the development of the creative industries.
The lack of creative industry specialist knowledge is a drawback as employees/start-up
entrepreneurs need access to specific advice and information about supply chains, networks and processes that are not common to other sectors. Although they have the talent and creativity to produce innovative products, the ‘creatives’ do not have the basic business gumption2, know-how or confidence that would convince a potential investor that they warrant the time and expense required of the due diligence process.
This development would address the following business development priorities:3
“to improve the skills and competences of people…”
A CI agency directly addresses this priority by developing very accessible and individual
guidance and business skills development and improving the quality of the professional
entrepreneurship by using and creating an environment that simulates the ethos and business support strategies that are found in business incubators. It also will facilitate positive attitudes
towards technological and organisational change that is required in today’s business world.
“to promote and reinforce the contribution of vocational training to the process of innovation …”
A CI agency directly addresses this priority by improving entrepreneurial endeavours and
promoting new media and innovation by ICT use, stimulating knowledge, assessment and
evaluation, increasing entrepreneurial spirit and business gumption by appropriate and suitable means.
“Developing relevant and innovative e-learning content”
A CI agency directly addresses this priority by stimulating individual knowledge and institutional knowledge by targeted knowledge transfer and providing a learning environment that balances generic business skills learning with the needs of the creative industry. This in turn will encourage the creative designers to see the relevance of ‘traditional’ business skills to the development of the company. The innovative aspects of a CI agency is an exciting engagement that encourages design conscious and design aware people to engage with training that at the same time supports the growth and development of the company.
“transfer of innovation”
This takes place through the agency and its relationship the business World. ‘Spin out’ as well as the ‘Spin in’ of businesses through the Innovative technology/knowledge/product transfer. It will also fast track sustainable business development through comprehensive business support and advice and guidance. Stimulated networking, an important aspect of the agency will also encourage participation. Knowledge transfer will take place by the natural clustering of like minded companies and people, by providing opportunities for synergy, collaboration and partnership and encouraging private enterprise.
The impact of the Creative Industries agency…
Short-term results of the project:
- possibility of offering specialised business training and support in the field of the creative industries for a large number of creative businesses in regions of post-industrial regeneration
- substantial new learning material and new technological approaches which will extend the
- current provision of generic business training to include the specific needs of ‘creative’ entrepreneurs
- creation of a new network of businesses and employees from the creative industries that will be involved with the development, assessment and dissemination of the methodologies
- incorporated into the agency
- development of professional business skills and tools for businesses and employees in the creative industries
- improvement of professional knowledge of the training needs of employees and entrepreneurs in the creative industries
- improvement of the development of post-industrial regeneration areas by the enhanced training of employees and entrepreneurs in start-up creative businesses and therefore
- meeting the already recognised potential growth of business within this sector
- reduction of unemployment in post-industrial regeneration regions because of the growth and development of the creative industries
- established network of virtual incubators (including the EU) with the cross-fertilisation of ideas and collaborative work
- involvement of women as new entrepreneurs
The way forward…
Defining what the way forward is for the agency. Is it to be an incubator, an agency or institution?
Is it culture or business or can you combine both?
Perhaps the way forward is to develop an agency that can support development. It would act as
an enabler and resource for information and support for networks, signposting creatives to other
agencies. The steps to achieve this could be:
- A scoping study/needs analysis of the embryonic creative industries in the Krasnoyarsk region.
- Liverpool Study Visit to see at first hand best practice in business incubation for the CIs. (Both virtual and actual examples of agencies operating on Merseyside)
- Seminar/conference to produce a strategy for the CIs – to continue the valuable work already achieved and to maintain the impetus of those involved
- Development of CI networks
- Development of resources including Virtual Agency
- Seeking financial support
- Refurbishment of a building to house a Creative Industries Incubator
- Promotion of Krasnoyarsk CI nationally and internationally
1 DTI definition
2 gump·tion n (informal)
- the courage to take what action is needed
- demonstrate initiative
- practical common sense and presence of mind
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