Association for Urban Creativity

Yoshiki Nishizawa, President of Osaka City University

Yoshio Kurano, Osaka International House, Osaka Prefecture

Kazuo Sumi, President, Commemorative Foundation for the International Garden and Greenery Exposition (Expo' 90)

Ryohei Yamanishi, Director, Osaka Museum of Natural History

Erling Norrby, Former Permanent Secretary, Swedish Royal Academy of Science

Seiichi Kondo, Former Commissioner for Cultural Affairs

Francesco Bandarin, Assistant Director General for Culture, UNESCO

Xavier Greffe, Professor, University of Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne

Paolo Perulli, Professor, University of Eastern Piedmont

Seita Tanaka, Mayor of Yao City, Osaka: Creativity of Yao City

Marc Jeanson, Chief, Research Division, Natural History Museum of Paris

Moritoshi Inno, Professor and Director, Botanical Garden of Osaka City University:Local community and Botanical Garden

Minoru Tsukagoshi, Chief, Research Division, Osaka Museum of Natural History

Shinobu Fujita, Professor, Graduate School of Life Science, Osaka City University: Regenerating Community in Osaka Traditional House

Taiji Adachi, Emeritus Professor, Osaka Prefecture University and President of Osaka Municipal Universities Press [Session Chair]

Philippe Terheggen, Managing Director STM Journals, Elsevier

Hans Thomson, Professor, University of Zurich: Japanese Arts and Networking

Franz Hoffmann, Emeritus Professor, University of California, Irvine

Juichi Matsuyama, Professor, Osaka Gakuin Univ.

Masaki Abe, Professor, Director of Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

Andy Pratt, professor, City University London, Vice President of AUC

Klaus R. Kunzmann, Professor emeritus, TU Dortmund University

Andy Pratt, Professor ,City University, London, [Session Chair]

Lily Kong, Professor, Vice President, National University of Singapore

Marisol Garcia, Professor, University of Barcelona 

Luciana Lazzeretti (University of Florence)

Asami Shikida (Hokkaido University) 

Masayuki Sasaki (Doshisha University)

Atsuko Maeda (Doshisha University)

Francesco Bandarin (UNESCO)

Andy Pratt (City University London)

Francois Colbert (HEC Montreal) 

Kay McArdle (Elsevier)

Montserrata Parajea-Estaway(University of Barcelona)

Takeo Nakatani 

Pedoro Costa (University Institute of Lisbon)

Naomi Uchida (Saitama University)

Yoshihiro Fujitsuka (Osaka City University)

Johannes Kiener (Osaka City University)

Volker Kirchberg (Leuphana University of Lüneburg)

Jenny Mbaye (University of Cape Town)

Geuntae Park (University of Leicester)

Kaoru Watanabe (Kumamoto University)

Natsuko Akagawa (University of Western Australia)

Koichi Suwa (Osaka University)

Joost Coté (Monash University)

Sharon Zukin, Professor, City University of New York / 17.45-18.15

Masayuki Sasaki, Professor, Doshisha University / 18.15-18.30

at Osaka Museum of Natural History, Nagai, Osaka City

Botanical Garden of Osaka City University at Katano City, Osaka Prefecture

Mayor of Katano City, Moritoshi Iino, Chiyomi Uematsu, Minoru Koi, Toshie Ihara

The 3rd AUC conference is now seeking your submission of papers and posters, which will focus on the theme, "Inclusive Creative City and Cultural Diversity". We welcome work that focuses on the concepts and case studies from any part of the world; we especially welcome work that asks critical questions of normative approaches and work that deals with cities beyond North American/European. Internationally focused submissions are encouraged.

1. Cultural policy and the city

2. Creative cities, clusters, quarters and hubs

3. Art and the resilient city

4. Knowledge exchange, intermediaries and the creative process

5. Inclusive cities and culture

6. Scenes and the cultural economy

7. Urban creativity, nature and human

8. Social design and global network

AUC Osaka office in Osaka City University

3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, Japan,

Post Code: 558-8585

FAX: +81-(0) 6-6605-2069

The 3rd AUC conference is now seeking your submission of papers and posters, which will focus on the theme, "Inclusive Creative City and Cultural Diversity". We welcome work that focuses on the concepts and case studies from any part of the world; we especially welcome work that asks critical questions of normative approaches and work that deals with cities beyond North American/European. Internationally focused submissions are encouraged.

1. Cultural policy and the city

2. Creative cities, clusters, quarters and hubs

3. Art and the resilient city

4. Knowledge exchange, intermediaries and the creative process

5. Inclusive cities and culture

6. Scenes and the cultural economy

7. Urban creativity, nature and human

8. Social design and global network

AUC Osaka office in Osaka City University

3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, Japan,

Post Code: 558-8585

FAX: +81-(0) 6-6605-2069

1. Cultural policy and the city

2. Creative cities and the Global South

3. Art and the city

4. Knowledge exchange, intermediaries and the creative process

5. Precarious labour, culture and the city

6.  Scenes and the cultural economy

7. Creative clusters, quarters and hubs

Masayuki Sasaki, Professor, Director of URP, Osaka City University

Edmond Préteceille, Senior Researcher, OSC, Sciences Po

1. Alain Chenu, Director of OSC, Sciences Po

2. Tommaso Vitale, Professor at Cities Program in Sciences Po

3. Christian Manhart, Chief of the Museum and Creativity Section at UNESCO

    Urban Creativity and Sustainable Development

On the Creativity of City, Creative City and Creative Industries 

1. Allen J. Scott, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles 

    Beyond the Creative City

2. Andy Pratt, Professor, King's College, University of London 

    Culture as Engine

3. Luciana Lazzeretti, Professor, University of Florence

    The remarkable resilience of cities of art: the challenge of a new Renaissance in Florence

*Round table discussion

Culture, Social Relations, Urban Policies and Conflicts

1. Olga Gritsai, ACRE Project Manager, University of Amsterdam

    The spatial mobility of the creative class in Europe: a challenge for policy-markers

2. Marisol Garcia, Professor, University of Barcelona

    'The transformation of the Barcelona model: culture,urban regeneration, and governance.'

3. Elsa Vivant, Maître de conférences, University Paris Est Marne la Vallée

    The social contradictions of the creative city: a research agenda

*Round table discussion

On the Inclusive City, Social Inclusion through Arts and Culture 

1. Toshio Mizuuchi, Professor, Osaka City University 

    The East Asia Inclusive CITYNet Workshop

2. Hong Gyu Jeon, Associate Professor, Osaka City University 

    Community Rebuilding Through Multicultural Work：Searching for the Inclusive Immigrant City from the Tohoku-model of Multicultural Practices

3. Shin Nakagawa, Professor, Osaka City University

    Asian Arts Management：Cultural Approach against Crisis

*Round table discussion

Towards the Century of Cities

International Symposium

Urban Regeneration through Cultural Creativeness and Social Inclusion

The first decade of the 21st century, dubbed the century of Cities, has passed. Osaka as well the cities around the world have faced financial storms of globalism causing mass unemployment, community destruction and environmental degradation. Cooperating with the Osaka International House Foundation, the Urban Research Plaza organizes an international symposium to hold the first roundtable discussion [Towards the Century of Cities] to find solutions to the challenges confronted by cities.

The symposium is an event to commemorate simultaneously the first international roundtable meeting, the launch of an international journal of City, Culture and Society (CCS) and the 130th anniversary of Osaka City University.

Yoshiki Nishizawa, President of Osaka City University

Kunio Hiramatsu, Mayor of the City of Osaka

Masayuki Sasaki, Director of the Urban Research Plaza, OCU

Sharon Zukin, Professor at the City University of New York

Lily Kong, Vice President at the National University of Singapore

Takashi Machimura, Professor at Hitotsubashi University

Toshio Mizuuchi, Vice Director of the Urban Research Plaza, OCU

François Colbert, Professor at HEC Montréal

Andrew Kirby, Professor at Arizona State University

Andy Pratt, Professor at Kings College London

Hyun Bang Shin, Lecturer at London School of Economics

Hiroshi Okano, Vice Director of the Urban Research Plaza, OCU

the Urban Research Plaza of Osaka City University

and The Osaka International House.

The Agency for Cultural Affiars,

The Japan Foundation,

and Tadao ANDO Foundation for Culture.