Külliki Tafel-Viia and Silja LassurMarch 15th 2012, Tartu

Tallinn University Estonian Institute for Futures Studies

Creative Industries in

Basis for Future Actions Cottbus, Klaipeda, Linköping, Zielona Gora and Tartu

The changing role of the cities

Economic, social and cultural transformation?

Tartu

Klaipeda

Linköping

Cottbus

Zielona Gora

100 000–200 000 inhabitants

all are certain regional centreslandlocked cities, except Klaipeda

combination of Western and post-socialist cities

Basis for cooperation

1 2 3Positioning of the cities on

the CCI policy model

How could the cities proceed?

Basis for cooperation

1

cultural institutions and

festivals

education

CCI businessesnature capacity skills

support structure

design, architecture, art, advertising and

software/games

Cottbus

Zielona Gora

Klaipeda

Tartu Linköping

architecture, advertising, visual

art, performing arts, music

game/software, design, advertising, arts, performing arts

museums, performing arts, classical music,

software, film

arts, handicraft, performing arts, game/software

cooperation fields

2Positioning of

the cities on the CCI policy model

city with a new face

cultural creative city

CI entrepre-neurial city

CI as a sectorbusiness oriented

city

cluster-basedspace oriented

state region city

CI as a wholeculture oriented

city region

Zielona Gora

Klaipeda

LinköpingTartu

CottbusGeneral focus of CI policy

CI policy approachGovernance of CI policy

Figure. CI policy models from the project Creative Metropoles & UCP cities

City with a new face

Cultural creative city

CI entrepre-neurial city

Zielona Gora

Klaipeda

LinköpingTartu

Cottbus

Barcelona

Helsinki

Oslo

Stockholm

Birmingham

BerlinAmsterdam

Riga

Tallinn

Vilnius

Warsaw

Figure. 11 Creative Metropoles cities & UCP cities

UCP cities Cities with established CI policies Cities as newcomers

3How could the cities proceed?

linking CCI development with

cities’ imago

linking CCI policy with other policies

cooperation with university

Klaipedacultural tourism

ICTvibrant atmosphere

Linköping

creative businessesurban development

visual arts

Zielona Goratraditional culture

software sectortourism

Tartuuniversity

cultural traditionsnew media and audiovisual

ICTCottbus“new” CCI sub-sectors

media educationdesign

Thank you!kylliki.tafel-viia@tlu.ee; silja.lassur@tlu.ee