1. Is Porto ready to be a creative city?
Rita Falcão Monteiro
Published at September, 17th, 2010.
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During this afternoon, at Casa da Música, in Porto, a conference on Creative
Cities Strategies, held by Creative Industries Worskhop(CIW2010), an event
from Universidade do Porto/P.INC, Universidade Católica, University of Austin -
Texas and ADDICT, some important issues were lightened up about Creative
Cities and Creative Industries Clusters. Guests included Michael da Costa Babb
(ADDICT), David Gibson ( IC2 Institute) and M ehjabeen Price (South West
Screen), on creative cluster projects,
and Marta Reis (Black & White) on film
projects.
One of the thi
clusters are working in other countries, and I understood that, although we are a
step away from environments like Austin or Bristol, we have the full potential - and
I think the eager - to strive and make this subject of major economic return.
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as STOP ( Porto ancient mall
coordination.
David Gibson gave the example of the old Austin Airport that became a music stage to newborn musicians and film studios for
the Austin Film Society, a non profit society that supports film production in Austin, and several other initiatives that made Austin a
capital of creative industries, specially music, film and interactive, specially with SXSW (Hugh Forrest, from SXSW Interactive, was in
Porto, at Future Places Festival 2009, talking about the strengths of the Festival).
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get to the other side of the river. Just like in Porto, where you
have the trigger, the entrepreneurship and the will of making it happen - either from a tradition of industrial economy, or the variety of
origins of Porto inhabitants, or the human factor in multi and intercultural environments (as M ehjabeen Price said in her presentation) or
the budget availability difference from the capital, or the cultural and creative scene that has been b uilt up, or several ot her issues.
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