Documentary_’Creative Industries:Leading Actor or Supporting Actor’

Posted: May 13th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: creative industries, real-estate, video | No Comments »

This documentary follows the topic on the Creative Industries in relation to urban reconstruction and land development. In the process of Ningbo’s city development and urban renewal in the recent years, one would witness that the Creative Industries plays an active and significant role and potentially processes economic, political or  social power.

The argument embedded in the documentary is that the Creative Industries, for one hand, is a set of economic form, able to generate economic growth and contribute to labor employment; on the other hand, it is also a tool, used to cover the underneath strategies for coalition between local government, real estate developer and commercial industries.

In order to visually present the argument and demonstrate it in a convinced and easily understood way, the project of Book City is selected as an example for assessment.

Here is the documentary, enjoy~~


Documentary: Creative Clusters in Ningbo

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Creative industries are flourishing in China. Ningbo has also realized the significance of creative industries in the whole economy. One of the most visible measures has been taken is to construct creative clusters, which, to some extent, improve the creative industries in Ningbo.

However, we can not neglect the problems of these shining creative clusters. First, some of the creative clusters are not purely “creative”. Second, the propaganda of the creative clusters is not enough. Third, most creative clusters in Ningbo are similar without obvious distinctions to attract different creative companies.

To sum up, constructing creative can help develop creative industries, but we should notice some problems emerging in the progress of development.

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTcyNzM0MzE2.html


Documentary: Clean Industries, Toxic Clusters

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This documentary is inspired by the lecture on ‘waste industries:Secondary Resources and the Geopolitics of Waste Distribution’ which reveals the unknown relationship between the Creative Industries with an image of being ‘clean’ and how it ‘contribute’ to a toxic industry of E-Waste.  Further field works on Creative industries and Real Estate Industries made a new observation  that new soil pollution due to the clusters built on decommissioned factories sites without proper cleaning once again make the ‘clean industries’ into a toxic ones. 

The documentary serves as a recorder that  traces the research from realizing the toxic side of a ‘clean’ industry to  field trips in finding the local discourses(Soil Cleaning due to the change of land ownership is normally ignored by local government, developers and even the consumers).  The aim of the research is not to find out answer on  whether the so-call clean industries is clean or not,  is with an effort to find out the relationships with which local practices can be tested by the academic inputs(why should soil cleaning be treated seriously, for whom? and who can contribute to a better solution?..etc.).

By identifying the above questions , a further attempt will be made to reveal and solve the problems  in a following essay with the same title.

Clean Industries, Toxic Clusters