Lessons from London

Joint programming for cultural squares
New plans and policies for the squares in the four major Dutch cities have been drafted previous years. Government and cultural organizations engaged in joint programming. Stipo and Inspiring Cities organized a meeting on this topic.

Interview with Charles Landry
Landry pleas for a city to use the creativity of many "to become the best and most imaginative city for the world - not the most creative city in the world".

CityPoets Antwerp
A tower declaring its love by a poem to a cathedral. A text message book for and by the city. Beer mats with poems. The Antwerp method to effect people by culture in a very direct way. What is behind all this?

Article on the Creative Economy for Talk of the Town
On the 21st of April 2009, Hans Karssenberg of Stipo presented an article for the ‘Talk of the Town’ debate in the Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam. The subject: An inspection into Amsterdam as the creative capital of the Netherlands.

Culture and Value Development
Especially arts and culture turn out to be value creators for residential ares. Research by ABF of which investments bring profit shows this.

City poems of Antwerp
A tower that declares his love to a cathedral, a book filled with sms-es created for and by a city, beer mats with poems: the way of the city of Antwerp to create a straight line to culture. What is the idea behind this thought?

Antwerp, CityChromosomes
How do we find the Chromosomes of Antwerp and Leeds? In a windy and cold Antwerp, mid December 2007, we met the people behind the chromosomes project in Antwerp Stefan Kolgen and Ann Laenen.