2. Laboratory-talk curated by Matthijs Bouw, architect, urban planner and founder of One Architecture, Amsterdam, with:
Julian Wolse, Architect, OTH Bureau voor Architectuur, Amsterdam
Fulco Treffers, Urban Programmer, 12N STDNBW, Eindhoven
Willem Velthoven, Founder, Mediamatic, Amsterdam
Tanja Mühlhans, Head of Creative Industries, Senat Department for Economics, Berlin
Prof. Axel Kufus, Designer, Design Reaktor/ University of Fine Arts, Berlin
Moderator:
Matthijs Bouw, Architect, Urban Planner and Founder of One Architecture, Amsterdam
Welcome:
Kristin Feireiss, Aedes Berlin
Ferdinand Dorsman, Counsellor for Press and Culture, The Embassy of the Netherlands in Berlin
“Dancing with utopia” is about the day-to-day business of creative industries. In the Netherlands, the notion of creative capital as an important instrument in urban policies and in branding the city is already quite accepted. Berlin, awarded “City of Design” status by UNESCO in 2006, is considered to be an incubator of the creative industries. What does reality look like? Can one regard urbanity as the matrix of creativity? What future and potential will creative industries have – and above all: what utopia are we talking about?
