A Definition of Creative Industries
For the sake of simplicity in our project, it might be best to classify creative industries as those that have direct creative outputs. We can adopt, develop, or modify a system that maps other contingent entities, such as those that provide various kinds of support to creative workers, those that provide creative inputs, and those that facilitate the creative outputs but do not directly produce them independently.
Place vs. Space
We've been talking a lot about about Central Square as a place for creative industries and have wondered what it is that makes it such a "place." Josh and I thought that it would be worthwhile to check about some of the thinking that's been done about placiness of place and the differences between it and space. I looked around for a good, quick introduction and found this, "What is a 'Sense of Place.'" by Jennifer E. Cross. Please read it before Wednesday, when I'm in charge! Woohoo!
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'sense of place' is extremely interesting to me. not only do architects and planners absolutely worship that phrase [and throw it around all the time when describing their projects]... but in our case, it also opens up such a wide realm of socio-geographic-anthropological implications that would make our 'cambridge media map' a little less sterile and a little more humanist.
oh, but while making our list more humanist, it also probably makes it more subjective and a little harder...
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