Friction in the Creative City

The Indonesian city of Bandung presents itself as an “emerging creative city.” This raises the question of how an “emerging” creative city can attain realisation: when and where is the creative city accomplished? The formalisation of the creative city creates friction – to borrow the term from Tsing...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:299feeb8c6464ab1ab9d9c5125064c422021-12-05T14:10:45ZFriction in the Creative City2451-347410.1515/culture-2021-0001https://doaj.org/article/299feeb8c6464ab1ab9d9c5125064c422021-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2021-0001https://doaj.org/toc/2451-3474The Indonesian city of Bandung presents itself as an “emerging creative city.” This raises the question of how an “emerging” creative city can attain realisation: when and where is the creative city accomplished? The formalisation of the creative city creates friction – to borrow the term from Tsing. This friction manifests in two ways. First, through its ontological opacity (what is the creative city?), Mould contrasts the “Creative City” (the mainstream understanding of the term) with the lowercase “creative city” (the more grounded, subversive understanding of the term). Second, through political contestation (how and for whom is the creative city?) which Peck and Theodore question through the notion of “fast policy,” in dialogue with the notion of “slow policy.” However, rather than being a dead end, this article argues that “friction” can repoliticise the creative city by challenging the depoliticisation that occurred through its formalisation.De Beukelaer ChristiaanDe Gruyterarticlecreative citybandungindonesiafast policyslow policycreative economyurban policySocial sciences (General)H1-99ENOpen Cultural Studies, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 40-53 (2021)
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Friction in the Creative City
description The Indonesian city of Bandung presents itself as an “emerging creative city.” This raises the question of how an “emerging” creative city can attain realisation: when and where is the creative city accomplished? The formalisation of the creative city creates friction – to borrow the term from Tsing. This friction manifests in two ways. First, through its ontological opacity (what is the creative city?), Mould contrasts the “Creative City” (the mainstream understanding of the term) with the lowercase “creative city” (the more grounded, subversive understanding of the term). Second, through political contestation (how and for whom is the creative city?) which Peck and Theodore question through the notion of “fast policy,” in dialogue with the notion of “slow policy.” However, rather than being a dead end, this article argues that “friction” can repoliticise the creative city by challenging the depoliticisation that occurred through its formalisation.
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