A Humble Creative City: Tainan City as a Case Study of Culture-led and Community-supported Transformation of a Historical City

Wu, Jiun-Yi

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“…These independent creative collectives become the counter culture to a Floridaian notion of creative class and creative city formula. The noisy discourse and, mostly, the top-down approaches and official main narrative of becoming a creative city are not something to be in line with the visions and the ways many creative communities live and work in their everyday life (Santos, 2020;Shin, 2020;Wu, 2020). This problematic social situation shows exactly the bigger picture that illustrates the importance of understanding everyday creative and media practices in creative cities, such as the ethnographic details mentioned earlier in the beginning of this introduction.…”

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“It’s Okay to be Slow:” Witnessing the Articulation of Connected Practices by Creative Collectives in Indonesia and Malaysia

Habibi

2022

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This article focuses on the everyday responses of the local creatives in dealing with the problematic single narrative of creative cities. Aiming to understand the everyday creative and media practices of individuals in the creative collectives that are situated in emerging creative cities in Southeast Asia, the research specifically addresses key contemporary debates within the field of urban media and communication studies. The article gives priority to the voices of the city dwellers from a bottom-up approach, looking at the material and embodied practices in their everyday life. Empirically, this article seeks the alternative voices raised by the members of selected creative collectives - four collectives in Bandung, Indonesia, and four others in George Town, Malaysia - in articulating the meaning of creativity, the media practices involved within, and the organic ways of organizing urban collectives. Drawing insights from the notion of articulation and media practice, and by employing both ethnographic and visual methodology approaches, in particular the use of the photo-documentation method, there are three key thematic findings elaborated here. These themes are (1) social settings in media-related practices, (2) material objects and sensitive affection, and (3) the labor of love. The ways in which these are discussed, using a combination of ethnographic vignettes and photo collages, foreground the importance of cultural identity articulation practiced by the creative collectives in both cities. Thus, the interlinkage between mediated experiences, spatial practices, and visual contexts is also a key significant aspect in the analysis of these bottom-up, organic urban creativities.

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“It’s Okay to be Slow:” Witnessing the Articulation of Connected Practices by Creative Collectives in Indonesia and Malaysia

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2022

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A Humble Creative City: Tainan City as a Case Study of Culture-led and Community-supported Transformation of a Historical City

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“It’s Okay to be Slow:” Witnessing the Articulation of Connected Practices by Creative Collectives in Indonesia and Malaysia

“It’s Okay to be Slow:” Witnessing the Articulation of Connected Practices by Creative Collectives in Indonesia and Malaysia

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