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Self-Organizing Urban Initiatives:  Actors and Practices of Creative Transformation of the City

Self-Organizing Urban Initiatives:  Actors and Practices of Creative Transformation of the City. Anna Zhelnina Alexandra Nenko Research and Study Group ‘Creative City’ National Research University – Higher School of Economics.

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Self-Organizing Urban Initiatives:  Actors and Practices of Creative Transformation of the City

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  1. Self-Organizing Urban Initiatives:  Actors and Practices of Creative Transformation of the City Anna Zhelnina Alexandra Nenko Research and Study Group ‘Creative City’ National Research University – Higher School of Economics

  2. Right to the city, environment as a source for creativity, and bottom-up artistic initiatives • New forms of public space • Lofts • Coworking • Multi-functional creative spaces • Temporary interventions • New actors in urban transformation • guerilla urban activists • Street artists, “socially responsible” artists • activists

  3. Bottom-up transformation of urban space by the means of art • New actors – new visions of comfortable urban spaces • Graffiti, guerilla gardening, do-it-yourself modifications • Role of the social and political context of transformation • Dynamic, networked character of initiatives

  4. Research Group “Creative City” • Mapping initiatives in St Petersburg • Studying the professional biographies and networks of activists What are the different ways to (creatively) claim the right to the city? Creativity as a resource of counter-public(s)?

  5. “Creative Initiatives” • Non-governmental • Active in urban modification in different forms: • Direct action (street art; DIY-marathon) • Education and multiplication of ideas (educational loft; networks of “creative professionals”) • “Creative spaces” hosting various events

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