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2007年03月30日 / The Meeting of Asian Art Management

Title: The Meeting of Asian Art Management: Creating Creative Cities “The Function and Role of an Art Manager”
Date: 30 March, 2007
Site: Takahara Hall

2007年03月30日 / Intensive Seminar – for Art Management in Asia, Osaka 2007 – Creating Creative Cities- The Function and Role of an Art Manager

30th March 2007

Time Schedule

10:00am Opening
Chair (AM)
Chair (PM)
Shin NAKAGAWA (Professor at the G. S. of literature, Osaka City University)
Mikio SUGIURA (Adjunct Lecturer of Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University)
10:15am Opening Speech Shin NAKAGAWA
10:30am Pres.1 「The State of Art Management in Korea」
Seungmi KIM (Professor at the Seoul Institute of the Arts)
10:45am        Discussion and Q&A
11:00am Pres.2 「The Network Formed Around the Asia Contemporary Dance Festival and Its Future Development Prospects」
Iku OTANI (Director of NPO Dance BOX)
11:15am        Discussion and Q&A
11:30am Pres.3 「Current Situation of Performing Arts in Indonesia」
Amna KUSUMO (Director of Kelola Foundation)
11:45am        Discussion and Q&A
12:00pm Lunch Break
01:30pm Pres.4 「About Art Related Activities ( a.a.r.a. )」
Klaomard YIPINTSOI (Founder / Director of About Art Related Activities ( a.a.r.a. ))
01:45pm        Discussion and Q&A
02:00pm Pres.5 「Potential From Cultural Exchanges in Art and Design」
Tomio SUGAYA (Curator at the Osaka City Museum of Modern Art (Planning Office))
02:15pm        Discussion and Q&A
02:30pm Pres.6 「The Mix of National Prestige and Market-driven Forces in Shanghai’s Contemporary Art Market」
Weiqun SHEN (Senior Producer of PRESS JAPAN (Tokyo Agency))
02:45pm        Discussion and Q&A
03:00pm Pres.7 「A Personal Encounter with China’s Contemporary Art: Concerning the Contemporary Art Market in China」
Yukihito TABATA (Director of Tokyo Gallery / B.T.A.P. (Beijing Tokyo Art Projects))
03:15pm        Discussion and Q&A
03:30pm        30-minute Break
04:00pm Discussion
05:30pm Closing Remark Masayuki SASAKI (Vice Director of Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University & Professor at the G. S. of Creative Cities, Osaka City University)
06:00pm Party

2007年03月04日 / Japan-Germany Homeless Assistance Symposium on Status and Issues of Homelessness in Japan and Germany- Learning from Each Other

title: Japan-Germany Homeless Assistance Symposium on Status and Issues of Homelessness in Japan and Germany- Learning from Each Other
date: March 4th, 2006

2007年01月19日 / The 5th Academic Forum in Yogyakarta

Title: The 5th Academic Forum in Yogyakarta “Recovery Management of Arts and Cultural Heritage”
Date: 19 January, 2007
Site: Multimedia room, University Gadjah Mada

2006年12月22日 / CELEBRATION: Opening of Takahara Hall Urban Research Plaza Week

December 18 (Monday) to December 22 (Friday) 2006

Hosted by Urban Research Plaza
Sponsored by
Yukokai and Osaka City University Associates

At the Urban Research Plaza, to celebrate the opening this November
of Takahara Hall, we are planning an ‘Urban Research Plaza Week’ from
December 18 (Monday) through December 22 (Friday) that will include
an international symposium, specialist workshops, poster sessions,
and an opening reception party. We hope that everyone will actively
participate.



Download: URP week Abstracts

(1.12MB)

Takahara Hall

Preliminary Schedule of URP Week
Dec.18 (Mon) 12:30-14:00 Opening Lecture Poster
Exhibition
Dec.19 (Tue) 13:00-14:30 URP Lecture
15:00-17:30 Poster Session
18:30-21:00 Forum at the Nishinari Plaza
Theme: The Oil Tycoon and Hollywood – Los Angels in the 1930-40s
Dec.20 (Wed) 14:00-17:30 Hong Kong – Osaka Forum
Theme: Shedding Light on Osaka from Hong Kong’s Experience as
a Global City
Dec.21 (Thu) 13:00-17:00

International
Conference Open Session
Theme: Images and Realities of the Cities in the 21st Century

18:00-20:00 Main Reception
Dec, 22 (Fri) 10:00-12:00
Closed
Conference for Experts Session 1
Theme: The Global Cities and beyond.
13:00-15:00
Closed
Conference for Experts Session 2
Theme: Historical retrospect of the changing cultural creativity
of cities in the 20th century.
15:30-17:30
Closed
Conference for Experts Session 3
Theme: Assumption and Policy Agenda for Human Settlement in
Cities

Dec.18(Mon)

Opening Lecture
Theme: Urban Studies – the past, present, and the future –

Time: 12:30-14:00
Venue: Main Hall at Takahara Hall
Capacity: 150 seats
Lecturer: Kenichi Miyamoto
(Emeritus Professor of OCU)
Chair: Toshio Kamo
(Director of OCU/URP)

Dec. 19 (Tue)

URP Lecture
Theme: Tax and Finance System of Large Cities in Japan – history, issues, and
agenda –

Time: 13:00-14:30
Venue: Takahara Hall
Capacity: 40 seats
Lecturer: Osamu Kimura
(Adjunct Lecturer of OCU/URP)
Chair: Toshio Kamo
(Director of OCU/URP)

Poster Session

* Poster Session Program (PDF)

* Poster Session Abstract (PDF)
Time: 15:00-17:30
Venue: Takahara Hall

Forum at the Nishinari
Plaza
Theme: The Oil Tycoon and Hollywood – Los Angels in the 1930-40s

Time: 18:30-21:00
Venue: Nishinari Plaza
Capacity: 50 seats (provide simultaneous interpretation)
Lecturer: Philip Ethington
(Professor at the University of Southern California)
Title:
“Global Spaces of Los Angeles in the 20th Century:
Oil, Hollywood, and Counterrevolution”
Moderator: Toshio Mizuuchi
(Professor of OCU/URP)

Dec. 20 (Wed)

Hong Kong – Osaka
Forum
Theme: Shedding Light on Osaka from Hong Kong’s Experience as a
Global City

Time: 14:00-17:30
Venue: Takahara Hall
Capacity: 40 seats(English Only)
Tutors: Takeshi Haraguchi
(Research Assistant of OCU/URP)
“The Creation of ‘Tourist City’ and the Attack on Homeless People: Neoliberal Urbanism in Osaka City, Japan.”
* Full Paper (English)
Toshio Mizuuchi
(Professor of OCU/URP)
“The Impact of Homeless Issues on the Mode of Urban Governance:the Situations in Osaka and Hong Kong”* Full Paper (English)
Wing Shing Tang
(Associate Professor of Hong Kong Baptist University)
“Redevelopment and the Displacement of the Working Class in Hong Kong”


* Full Paper (English)
Comment:Meekam NG
(Associate Professor at the CUPEM, Hong Kong University)
Anne Haila
(Professor at the University of Helsinki)Chair:Kenkichi NAGAO
(Associate Professor of OCU)

Dec. 21(Thu)

International Conference
Open Session
Theme: Images and Realities of the Cities in the 21st Century

Time: 13:00-17:00
Venue: Osaka City University’s Media Center 10th Floor Main Conference
Room
Capacity: 250 seats (provide simultaneous interpretation)
Overall Host: Toshio Mizuuchi
(Professor of OCU/URP)
Setsuko Nakajima
(Associate Professor ofHuman Life Science)
Opening Address: Satoru Kaneko
(President of Osaka City University)
Keynote Speech: Allen J. Scott
(Professor of UCLA)
Title: Creative cities: conceptual issues and policy questions.
* Full Paper (English)

Speakers:Edmond Preteceille
(Director of Research, Paris. CNRS, Science PO.)

“THE RESISTANCE OF THE DUAL CITY MODEL”

* Full Paper (English)

Masayuki Sasaki
(Vice Director of OCU/URP)

“The Theory of “Creative Cities” in Japan and the Issues Concerning Policy”

* Full Paper (Japanese)

Meekam NG
(Associate Professor at the CUPEM, Hong Kong University)

“Globality, Sustainability and Creativity: World Cities Contest”

* Full Paper (English)

Anne Haila
(Professor at the University of Helsinki)
“Defining Rights: the Challenge to Urbanism”

* Full Paper (English)

Discussant:Hiroshi Yahagi
(Professor at the Graduate School of Creative Cities, OCU)
* Comment (English)
Chair:Toshio Kamo
(Director of OCU/URP)


Dec, 22 (Fri)
Closed Conference for Experts

Time:10:00-17:30
Venue: Takahara Hall
Capacity: 40 seats (provide simultaneous interpretation)


Session 1:
Theme: The Global Cities and beyond.

Time: 10:00-12:00
Speakers: Edmond Preteceille
(Director of Research, Paris. CNRS, Science PO.)
“RECONSIDERING THE GLOBAL CITY FROM THE EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE”
* Full Paper (English)

Toshio Kamo
(Director of OCU/URP)
“The Future of the World Cities: Beyond Economic-Military Globalism”

* Full Paper (English)
Discussant:Allen J. Scott
(Professor of UCLA)Chair:Masayuki Sasaki
(Vice Director of OCU/URP)

Session 2:
Theme: Historical retrospect of the changing cultural creativity
of cities in the 20th century.

Time: 13:00-15:00
Speakers: Shinya Hasizume
(Professor of OCU/URP)

” The Cultural Landscape and Osaka:
The Creative Use of Historic Buildings and the Cultural Landscape”

* Full Paper (English)
Philip Ethington
(Professor at the University of Southern California)

“Cultural Creativity in a Global Metropolitan Region:
the Commercial-Critical Dynamic of Los Angeles”


* Full Paper (English)Discussant:Jeffrey Hanes
(Associate Professor at the University of Oregon)Chair:Toshio Mizuuchi
(Professor of OCU/URP)

Session 3:
Theme: Assumption and Policy Agenda for Human Settlement in Cities

Time: 15:30-17:30
Speakers: Jean-Claude Driant
(Professor of Paris 12 University)
” Housing Markets and Housing Policies in France:The Stakes of Decentralization “
* Full Paper (French)

Yumi Sato
(Adjunct Lecturer of OCU/URP)

“Towards a Sustainable City:
Housing Policies in the Face of Population Decline and Aging”


* Full Paper (English)Discussant:Sakon Tajimi
(Professor at the Graduate School of Human Life Science, OCU)Chair:Mieko Hinokidani
(Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Human Life Science,
OCU)

 

Urban Research Plaza Opening Symposium Organizing Committee

SASAKI, Masayuki (Chairman, Vice Director of Urban Research Plaza,
Creative Cities Research Dept. Chair)
KAMO, Toshio (Urban Research Plaza Director, Professor of Law)
MIZUUCHI, Toshio (URP Professor)
HASHIZUME, Shinya (URP Professor)
SATO, Yumi (URP Adjunct Lecturer)
SUGIURA, Mikio (URP Adjunct Lecturer)
HONDA, Tetsuo (Associate Professor of Business)
NAGAO, Kenkichi (Associate Professor of Economics)
UCHIDA, Takashi (Associate Professor of Engineering)
KANA, Koichi (Associate Professor of Engineering)
TANI, Naoki (Professor of HumanLife Science)
NAKAJIMA, Setsuko (Associate Professor of Human Life Science)
YAHAGI, Hiroshi (Professor of Creative Cities Research)

For more information:

office@ur-plaza.osaka-cu.ac.jp
3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka 558-8585 JAPAN
Telephone: (+81) 06-6605-2071
Fax: (+81) 06-6605-2069

2006年10月02日 / Shanghai Seminar Changing Sphere of Space, Society and Economy in Shanghai

title: Shanghai Seminar Changing Sphere of Space, Society and Economy in Shanghai
date: October 2nd, 2006

2005年12月10日 / International Symposium on Creative City Creative Cities and the Revitalization of Osaka

Title: International Symposium on Creative City Creative Cities and the Revitalization of Osaka
Date: December 10th, 2005