2019

Talks, facilitation & strategic advice

• Countless Cities, la Biennale delle Città del Mondo, Favara, June
• The Urban Psychology Summit, conceived and co-curated with Chris Murray, London 27th June
• Four interventions at the ‘We Make the City’ week under the theme ‘Cities under Pressure’, Amsterdam, June
• ‘Place Making and the Creative Bureaucracy, keynote and co-curation, Valencia, June
• ‘The potential of smaller places in a global environment’, Nürtingen, Germany, June
• ‘Can the creative economy help development’, Just Transition Conference, German Development Association, Berlin, June
• Inspiring ‘Berlin and where next’- a fireside chat, @Urban Persuasion, Berlin, May
• The fireside ‘Re-arranging: new organizational structures for cities’, Future Global Conference, Oslo, May
• Creative Stroud/Berlin: An unusual couple’ SVA, Stroud, May
• ‘Birmingham – rethinking the bureaucracy’ Birmingham Partners, April
• ‘Manama – rescue and renewal’, Ministry of Culture, Bahrain, April
• ‘Social innovation: The next step for creativity’, Athens Impact Hub, 5-year celebration, March
• The Human Centred City: Rights & Responsibilities’, European Parliament, Brussels, March
• ‘Preconditions for systemic change – a creative bureaucracy’, Global Solutions Summit, Berlin, March
• Keynote World Happiness Summit, government track, Lisbon, March
• ‘Why Lisbon needs a more creative bureaucracy’, Build the City, Lisbon, January
• ‘Can new town Almere be an extension of Amsterdam’, Almere, January
• ‘The role of creative hubs in a city’ city of Pforzheim, January
• ‘Does a creative bureaucracy mean anything to you?’ Friction Arts, Birmingham January

2018

Talks, facilitation & strategic advice

• ‘Tisch One – the Dada experience’, Berlin, December
• Keynote Eurocities annual conference, Edinburgh, November
• ‘Cities and the public administration – can design help?’ Danish Design Centre, Copenhagen, November
• ‘Ageing and creativity’, Active Ageing Symposium, Koerber Stiftung, Hamburg, November
• International Theatre Festival, two keynotes to the public administration and then the business community, Tbilisi, October
• The Biennale of Trust, co-host of festival, Lviv, October
• Temporary spaces become permanent places’ Recitylize, Mechelen, September
• ‘Heritage & Creativity: Great Partners’, Ministry of Culture, Bahrain, October
• ‘Do creative people cause gentrification’ TU Wien, Vienna, September
• Keynote Latin American Smart Cities Congress, Puebla, Mexico, September
• The 1st Creative Bureaucracy Festival, Berlin, September
• ‘Culture and creativity: Malta’s possibilities’, Valletta, September
• ‘How can Perth make the most of the nomadic world’, FORM, Perth, July
• Keynote for The Committee for Sydney, July
• ‘Intrapreneurs & entrepreneurs, Institute of Public Administration Australia, Adelaide, July
• Creative Bureaucracy Festival, founders meeting, Berlin, June
• ‘Cities under Pressure’, We Make the City festival Amsterdam, June
• Congreso internacional Smart Cities for Smart Citizens, Valencia, June
• ‘Creative hubs in a nomadic world’, Dutch Creative Residency network, Maastricht, May
• ‘The Campus of the Future, Hook 18, Aalto university, Espoo, May
• ‘The Creative Bureaucracy’, the Global Solutions Summit, Berlin, May
• There is more to cities than design’, Typo International Design Conference, Berlin, May
• ‘Cities: An overview’, Swindon Literature Festival, May
• ‘The Human Centred City’, Madinah, Saudi Arabia, May
• ‘Can Helsinki’s bureaucracy become more innovative’, Urban Academy, April
• ‘Smaller places, bigger potential’, Great Yarmouth, April
• ‘Robert Bosch lecture on current urban trends’, Stuttgart, April
• Burning Man European Summit, keynote, Nantes, April
• Helsinki Urban Lab, keynote, March
• Inter-American Development Bank, keynote annual meeting, Mendoza, Argentina, March
• ‘Harnessing Lviv’s creative resources’, Lviv, March
• ‘Creative Quarters’, Berlin museums directorate, March
• Various presentations as fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy Berlin, February-April
• ‘The Civic City & Nomadic World’, Koerber Stiftung, Hamburg, Cities of Ambition, Bilbao Metropoli 30, Bilbao, January
• ‘Where do we belong when everything is on the move?’, UBS bank annual trends day, Zurich, January
• ‘The Creative Industries Dialogue’, ECCE, Dortmund, January

2017

Talks, facilitation & strategic advice

• What really matters to cities? The Liquid City series, Berlin, December
• Independent culture in difficult times, Izmir, December
• Thinking differently, the Open Eyes New Economy conference, Krakow, November
• The Creative Bureaucracy, Bergen senior managers conference, November
• The Civic City, Let’s Gro Groningen, November
• Reflections on creativity, Meet the Master series, Obidos, Portugal, October
• The Sensory City, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal October
• Moderating Urban Thinkers Campus, Mannheim, October
• Psychology & the City, Bristol Festival of Ideas, October
• Beyond the nomadic world – Creative Morning series, Berlin, October
• Tipping Cultures – where next, Krakow, October
• Global Parliament of Mayors, keynote, Stavanger, September
• Old buildings and new life, Ivano-Frankvist, Ukraine, September
• Kiel and its potential, Kiel September
• Inter-American Development Bank, The Power of Cultural Industries, Washington, September
• Wasan Island, Toronto – social innovation retreat, September
• Psychology & the City – Milton Keynes, July
• Cities under Pressure, Lisbon, July
• Cities of the 21st century, Eixo Atlantico, keynote, Braga, June
• A humane digital world: Smart City Expo, keynote, Casablanca, May
• The Robert Bosch Academy fellowship March – June
• The Civic, the Nomadic & the Creative: How to transform cities for the 21st century @ the Robert Bosch Academy
• Jury member of the Music Cities Convention Hackathon and moderator ‘Music’s role in planning towns and cities’ @ Rotes Rathaus
• Rethinking the Role of Women in Cultural and Media Professions. A European Comparison, moderating a high level seminar on behalf of the Hertie School of Governance
• Psychology & the City: The hidden dimension seminar @ the Robert Bosch Academy and at the Holzmarkt project
• Arts and culture in a nomadic world – a keynote for the  Ko-ordinaten System network @ Betahaus
• The Delights & Disappointments of the Creative City – Interview by Marc Pachter @ the Robert Bosch Academy
• The Creative Bureaucracy workshops @ the Georg Simmel Centre and Robert Bosch
• Wachsende Stadt – wo bleibt der Raum für die Kultur? @ the Deutsches Theater
• ‘What if… there were no cultural institutions and we reinvented them again’ – a workshop with cultural leaders from Berlin and elsewhere. @ the Robert Bosch Academy
• Root Advisory, presenting the relaunch, Sydney, March
• Kochi Biennale, The civic, the creative & the nomadic, lecture February
• The annual Istituto d’Arte Applicata e Design lecture, Torino, February
• Cheltenham Potential, strategic advice, January

Strategic advice

• Co-curating and moderating the Unesco Creative Cities Network Summit in Ostersund in September 2016
• The Unesco Creative Cities Network : A survey of the effectiveness of the 116 member network May-September 2016
• Krakow: Place, Presence & Potential: Harnessing tradition & innovation, on-going
• Plymouth: A Culture of Curiosity programme ongoing
• Cultural Thinking as Urban Strategy: Mannheim, on-going
• Born in Antwerp: A Harbour of Creativity – evaluating the prospects
• Big Data & the City of Things: Helsinki Symposium, on-going
• Cultural Thinking as Urban Strategy: Mannheim, on-going
• Chair NICE Awards – New Innovations in the Creative Economy: ‘Digital Solutions for Problems that Really Matter’
• Towards the City 3.0, Umea, on-going

2016

Creative City Evaluations

• Palmerston North, New Zealand 2013 and revaluation 2019
• Krakow: Putting Culture Centre-Stage in Development. Completed 2017
• Plymouth: A Culture of Curiosity ongoing
• Antwerp: A Harbour of Creativity April 2016
• Mannheim: Moving Centre Stage 2016 spring
• Helsinki: Strengthening Global Fluency 2015
• Gijon: Smaller Place & Greater Impact 2015
• Adelaide: Harvesting the collective imagination 2015

Talks, facilitation & strategic advice

• Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, the Annual Lecture, December
• Moderation: Multi-sensory design – creating healthier public spaces University of the Arts, December 2016
• Smart and digital Vienna: A short residency, 5^th-7^th December
• ‘Making the most of resources’, Plymouth University, 23rd November
• The ECCE Masterclass, ‘To be debated: The Digitized City’, Dortmund, 17th-18th November
• Open Eyes Economy, Measuring the Pulse of Krakow, 14th-16th November
• City, Nation, Place: Authenticity & Distinctiveness, London, 10th November
• Rock the Cotswolds: There is more to smaller towns, Gloucester, 9th November
• ‘The Future of Venice – A Vision that can sustain’, the CINI Foundation, November
• UN Habitat Summit,  contributions to ‘The City We Need’ and UNESCO sessions, Quito, 15th-17th October
• Ciudades Creativas & their Sustainability, IADB/UADE, Buenos Aires, 12th-14th October
• Macau: ‘What Prospects for a Gambling City’ – a residency October
• Urban Transformation, Danish Town Planning, Malmo, 6th October
• ‘A Manifesto for a more creative city’, Lublin, Poland, October 4th-5th
• Festival of Literature Mantua 20 years celebration 30th September
• Laboratorio para la Ciudad, ‘Poder Hacer: ‘Next steps for creativity from below’, Mexico City, September 20th-24th
• Architecture & Democracy, New York Times, Costa Navarino, Greece, 17^th/18th September
• UNESCO Creative Cities Summit, ‘Evaluating the UCCN, Ostersund, September 14th-15th
• ‘The Creative Business’, the Start-up network, Ostersund, 14th September
• ‘Valuing Creativity’, Mid-Sweden University, Ostersund, 12th September
• 10th Celebration The Academy of Urbanism:, Dublin:  ‘The Digitized City’, 1st September
• Forum Avignon Ruhr, 24th August, Essen
• Accelerating Resilience & Inclusive Growth, International City/County Management Association (ICMA)/USAID, Manila, Philipines, 11th July
• Asia Europe Culture Ministers 22nd June Gwangju, Korea
• Abundant Life, Rethinking the prospects of Dartington Hall, a symposium, 3rd/4t July
• The Culture Forum, ‘An overview of cultural trends’, Belfast 13^th June
• Cheltenham Deign Festival, ‘The Delights & Dilemmas of the Digitized City’ in conversation with Rowan Moore, 11^th June
• Denkfest Heidelberg, ‘Cultural Networks: The power & potential’, 8th June
• The German Habitat Forum – ‘Urban Solutions, keynote, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation & Development & the Federal State of Berlin, 1^st June
• The Urban Academy programme launch, Helsinki 20th May
• Helsinki Region Infoshare celebrations 19th May
• Music Cities Convention, Brighton, 18th May
• Krakow: ‘The Dragon Awakes’, Aspire annual conference plus International Cultural Centre 30^th anniversary congress ‘Krakow & the World’ two lectures both May
• Music Cities Convention, contribution on ‘Changing Politics & Policies’, Brighton, May
• The Toronto Think Tank: Reimagining the Gardiner Underpass, April
• La Storia in Piazza: Città creative e ambiziose: passato, presente e future, Genova, April
• Come usare la creativita e l’immaginazione nei cambiamneti urbani, Circolo dei Lettori Torino, April
• The Digitized City: Influence & Impact, Antwerp, March
• The Digital Transformation Summit – Keynote: ‘Prospects for a Digitized City’ Vodafone, Istanbul, March
• Art for Tomorrow: New York Times & Qatar Museums, Doha, Keynote:  ‘Creative & ambitious places: Their past, present & futures’ March
• UN-Habitat Mannheim: Curating and moderating ‘The City We Need’ in Process as preparation for the UN Summit in Quito, February
• Lincoln: Culture & Creativity for a Thriving City, a keynote, March
• Chennai: Urban development that is more than Smart, a talk in collaboration with the British Council, February
• Milton Keynes: Taking the Psychological Pulse of the City: A review January
• European Capital of Innovation jury sessions, January
• Tallinn: Masterclass for the Creative Entrepreneurship Academy, January
• Krakow: Making more of a Historic City, workshops January

2015

Talks, facilitation & strategic advice

• Creative Bureaucracy, South Australian government and Local government Association on-going
• Place & Presence: A cultural strategy for Espoo on-going
• Beijing: China & its New Centrality as a Creative Industries Hub, December
• Hangzhou: Unesco Culture & Sustainable Development summit, December
• Macau: This is My City Festival, December
• Antwerp: Harbouring Fashion & More , December
• The Festival of the Future City, Bristol, November
• Knight Cities Challenge Evaluation, November
• Actors for Urban Change, jury, Berlin
• The Weizsacker Forum, Berlin November
• Trieste: Can Trieste re-emerge as a European hub? October
• Ostersund, Sweden: Towrds a more creative bureaucracy October
• Korean & social innovation – The districts of Seoul: Seongbuk, Dongjak, Eunpyung, Seongdong October
• Grosvenor Estates Seminar: Where next for Belgravia & Mayfair, September
• Big Data & the City of Things: The Helsinki Symposium, September
• ‘Building Green Cities’, Hamburg, September
• ‘Culture is Digital, Digital is Culture, Forum Avignon/Ruhr, Essen, September
• Tallinn Design Week: Human Cities, September
• The Brownfields Conference, Chicago ,The International City Manager’s Association, ICMA, September
• ‘Museums at their best’ – The Invisible Museum Network, Delhi and Kolkata, August
• Place & Presence: A cultural strategy for Espoo summer 2015
• The Kaifeng Foundation Beijing & Civic Culture Strategy, autumn
• 25th Anniversary of Colombia’s Development Bank, Findeter, Bogota, June
• The Knight Cities Challenge, the Civic Innovators Awards, Detroit, June
• Designing Resilient Cities, the RIBA Summit, London, June
• Challenging the Orthodoxy: Healthy & Creative Cities, Academy of Urbanism, Birmingham, June
• City Leadership & Cultural Leaders Group, Trends in Cultural Policy, Espoo, May
• Actors for Urban Change, Awards Ceremony keynote, Berlin, May
• Making the most of the 2nd City, Antwerp, May
• TEDX Padua: The City 1.0,2.0, 3.0 May
• TEDx Leicester: The 10 Principles of Civic Urbanity , April
• Perth: The P.U.B.L.I.C Summit – Be the Change: Inspired Leadership & Citizen Initiatives- April
• The Creative Bureaucracy: Where next? Adelaide, April
• London: Club of Amsterdam- Association of Futurists : – April
• URBED – 40^th Anniversary Talk
• Civic Creativity with Strijp-S/Thom Aussem, Trudo housing association, Eindhoven, April
• St Etienne – Launch of E.U Human Cities Project – March
• Bahrain – New Ideas need Old Buildings, Arab Heritage Centre – March
• Torino – Eurocities, keynote on new forms of participation – March
• Bologna – University of Bologna, Designing Human-scale Cities – March
• Towards the City 3.0, Umea, spring
• Siem Reap- UNESCO UNTWO First Global conference on linking Culture and Tourism – January
• Taipei – A City of Ambition with Bamboo Curtain International, January
• Master class series with the Academy of Young Urbanists: Solving intractable problems with creativity, January-April
• Cultural Indicators – A toolkit: with Brecknock Consulting for the South Australian Local Government Association, January

2014

Jury memberships in 2014

• Chair of the evaluation committee to appoint the 1st European Capital of Innovation
• Chair of the NICE Award (Network for Innovation in the Creative Economy)
• Parking Day – Adelaide

Talks, facilitation & strategic advice

April onwards

• Taipei: Rethinking Competitiveness; with Bamboo Curtain International in 2014
• Cultural Indicators; A toolkit: with Brecknock Consulting for the South Australian Local Government Association., in 2014
• Ostersund – Series of Talks on a UNESCO City of Gastronomy – December
• Lyon – Is the Creative City simply a marketing tool? – December
• Rotterdam – Where should Rotterdam go next? December
• Sydney-Bays Precinct – Thinking about Cities Afresh – November
• Launceston-How to make the most of Small Places – November
• Hobart – Dept. of Growth and Development presentation – November
• Melbourne – Footscray Towards a university City – November
• Adelaide – LGAAnnual Conference – November
• Canberra: New trends in Urbanism with MAW Action – November
• Mannheim- At the Boundaries of Sound, Enjoy Jazz Festival – October
• Mackay – L.G.A.Q Annual Conference – November
• Medellin Colombia – An Overview of City Dynamics – October
• North Joella Korea – Heritage and Creativity: Great Partners – October
• Rotterdam Asian European Ministers Summit – October
• Nordic Cities-Next Steps for Progressive Cities – October
• Beijing – Kaifeng Foundation-Getting Beyond the City 1.0 – September
• Taipei Forum-Harnessing Entrepreneurship and Smart Governance – September
• Chengdu – UNESCO Creative Cities Network summit/keynote – September
• Medellin Universidad de Antioquia – September
• Rio de Janeiro – Launch of their Creativity Centre – July
• Essen – New Innovations in the Creative Economy NICE and Forum Avignon Ruhr – June
• Matera – IFKAD Benchmarking Creative Cities – June
• Helsinki: Creative City Index – May
• Berlin: Hertie School Government – May
• Berlin: 90th anniversary of Dewego one of Germany’s largest housing associations – May
• Taipei Bamboo Curtin International & Simple Life organization – April
• Canberra: Master-Builders Federation
• Adelaide: Change SA – & the Creative Bureaucracy

January to March 2014

• Denver: The Rocky Mountain Summit
• Salt Lake City: The Downtown Alliance:
• Miami: The Knight Foundation:
• Bergen: Heritage & Creativity – Great Partners, Reflecting on the Unesco Conventions
• Bellagio: Resilience Conference
• Mannheim: The New Year Lecture

2013

Projects completed in 2013

• Art & Wealth: The Royal Academy & Mayfair
• Cork Street, London & Art Galleries for Native Land
• Capturing the Value of Major Rail Investment: The Independent Transport Commission
• Adelaide: At the Edge but Cutting Edge  – A Creative Eco-system Evaluation
• Harnessing the Collective Imaginationof Taipei
• Winner 1^st European Award for Speed Innovation: Shaking Hans – see blog

Jury memberships and boards

• Actors of Urban Change, Mit-Ost Stiftung & Robert Bosch, Berlin
• Chair of the Dutch Creative Quarters Network

Talks, facilitation & strategic advice

• Hong Kong, The Business of Design Week
• Wroclaw, Poland, Trends in the Creative Economy
• Linz, Austria, The Creative Region
• London, Embedding Culture into Government Policy, IXIA 1
• Birmingham, Embedding Culture into Government Policy, IXIA 2
• Wakefield: Public Art Think Tank, IXIA 3
• Oldenburg: Civic Urbanity
• Padova – The Segnavie lecture
• Oulu: Public Art & the Uses of Memory
• Kuala Lumpur: My Place, My Brand
• Adelaide: Festival of Ideas – The City 1.0, 2.0, 3.0
• Istanbul: Architecture & its Role in Great City Making, Arkimeet
• Kosice, Slovakia: The Creative Economy – Next Steps
• Taipei: Ministry of Transport: Rethinking Bureaucracy for the 21st Century
• Kuala Lumpur: 5th Sustainable Development conference – Can creativity help sustainability?
• Tampere: Metropolis Conference – The Intercultural City
• London: The IFHP Centenary Conference – Urban Governance & Smart Cities
• Warsaw: The Innovation Economy conference
• Essen: Forum Avignon Ruhr
• Amsterdam: Provada – The Real Estate Summit
• Lisbon: Launch lecture for the city’s creative economy strategy
• San Sebastian: What is a smart city?
• Hangzhou: Unesco Summit on Culture & Sustainable Development
• Beijing: Tsinghua University
• Beijing: Great Ocean Group
• Gijon: European Week lecture
• Hamburg: Deutscher Kirchentag: ‘How much do you need’
• Rotterdam: Academy of Urban Design: The Power of Streets
• Riga: The Social Responsibility of Architects
• Riga: Strategy Department National government – The New Bureaucracy
• Matera: Prospects & Opportunities for the European Capital of Culture
• Taipei: Harnessing Talent & Potential
• Palmerston North; New Zealand: Trends in City Making
• Royal Academy, London:-Not for profits arts in a world of global wealth

2012

Projects completed in 2012

• Culture, Creativity & the City: A question of interconnection, Ruhr 2010
• Know Cities – A short comparative assessment of the of 9 Atlantic Arc cities based on the Creative City Index methodology
• Creative eco-system assessment Palmerston North, New Zealand
• Talented Taipei & the Creative Imperative
• Penang: Mapping the creative economy
• The Creative Administration in Biscay & Bilbao

Talks, facilitation & strategic advice

Jury memberships in 2012:

• Bilbao: City Branding Competition
• Kuala Lumpur: Bandar Malaysia – a new urban quarter design competition
• Aberdeen: City Gardens Design Competition

December

• Bakewell, Derbyshire, Chatsworth House: A Compelling Couple – Arts & Tourism, Elemental Force

November

• Leipzig: Creative and open – Strategies for a successful innovation management, Final EU Creative Cities Conference
• Seville: A Comparative Assessment of the Creative City Index, Know Cities Network
• Norwich: Putting Culture Centre-Stage, Culture Matters Conference, HEART
• Barcelona: The Collaborative City & its Prospects, Smart City World Congress
• Florence: The Origins & Futures of the Creative City, International Cultural Heritage & Environment Week
• Bremen: The Creative Economy & its Futures,the Organza Network of Textile Cities
• Norwich: A Compelling Cultural Narrative for Tourism, Cultural & Visitor Attraction Leaders Grouping

October

• Bologna: Smart Cities – Technology & Inclusiveness, Smart Cities Exhibition
• Zurich: The role of the artist in city making, reARt:reURBAN conference
• Taipei: Talented Taipei & the Creative Imperative, Taiwan Cultural Centre
• Athens: The city – A laboratory for solving problems of its own making, Corporate Research Forum annual meeting

September

• Helsinki: World Design Capital Event Series – Civic Urbanity, the Pavilion
• St. Petersburg: Rethinking urbanity in the new Russia, Pro Estate Convention

July

• Kuala Lumpur: Bandar Malaysia – a new part of KL
• London: Seamless Connectivity & High Speed Rail, Independent Transport Commission

June

• Taipei: The Creative Bureaucracy – Towards radical common sense, City Council Leadership Grouping
• Genova, Creative Urban Development, conference on ‘The Promotion of Creative Industry Potentials in Central European Cities’

May

• Oporto, Launching the Oliva Factory, Sao Joao de Madeira
• Vancouver: The Enabling Environment of Imaginative Places, BCreative 2012, Simon Fraser University
• Saint Paul: The Great River Gathering Annual Lecture, Saint Paul Riverfront Corporation
• Saint Paul: The Intercultural City & its Potential, Culture Brokers
• The Twin Cities – Minneapolis/Saint Paul: Connecting Cultures, Connecting Cities, a residency programme talks,

April

• Luxembourg: Interculturalism & its potential, Turn me on Design Symposium
• Cheltenham Design Festival: The Sensory Landscape of Cities
• Sao Paolo: The Creative Economy, Culture & Business, SESI
• Rotterdam: Reading the city as a communications device, Atelier Tarwewjk
• Amsterdam: Urban dynamics & the greater Amsterdam, the Stadt Forum

March

• Paris: The Europa City project – Diverse creativities
• Forum Avignon Ruhr, Essen: A Question of Interconnection: Culture, Creativity & the City

February

• Penang: Greening Urban Growth, World Bank & Khazanah
• Sydney: Rethinking Darling Harbour
• Tokyo: Launch of the Creative Cities Network Japan
• Osaka: Culturally sensitive city-making, Osaka University
• Sapporo: Assessing the potential to be a creative city, City Council

January

• Ghent: An emerging creative city. Final presentation the Creative City Index
• Aberdeen: AB + Culture at the heart of Aberdeen
• Kirovograd, Ukraine: The bigger context of the creativity movement

2011

Projects completed in 2011

• Paris & its Global Positioning
• Aberdeen in Transformation: Prospects & Potential
• Minneapolis & Saint Paul: Connecting Cities, Connecting Cultures

Creative Eco-system evaluations for:

• 1. Oulu, Finland; A new vision for urban culture
• 2. Ghent Belgium: An emerging city of imagination
• 3. Canberra: The Next Evolution

Talks, facilitation & strategic advice

 November

• Ghent: The Creative City Index: Measuring your Potential
• Forum Avignon: Investing in culture: Culture is future
• Sydney: City Talks 2011: The Art of City Making & Sydney’s Magnetism

October

• Canberra: Transforming Canberra Series
• Youth & commitment to the city
• Leadership & vision
• The Arboretum & its visionary perspective
• Taipei Forum:
• Incubation: A global overview
• London as a Global Magnet
• Gwangju, South Korea:
• An Asian Hub for Culture & Creativity
• Young people & urban transformation

September

• Dublin: Age Friendly Cities – Reshaping needs to the coming age, WHO Ageing  Cities Network
• Novosibirsk, Siberia: The Youth Innovation Festival, INTERRA
• Amsterdam PICNIC: Measuring the pulse of your city
• Genk: The Annual C-Mine Lecture: The potential of Limburg
• Lille: The creativity of a metropole, The Entrepreneur Fair

August

• Haarlem:     Urban Pioneering & Passion, The Fokker Centenary Celebrations
• A closer look at the potential of smaller cities, Economic Development Agency

July

• Minneapolis/Saint Paul: Ethnic cultural tourism conference, Culture Brokers
• Minneapolis: The Creative Avenue: Light rail as a catalyst
• London: The Swiss-UK Dialogue: The new green urbanism

June

• Amsterdam: Imaginative real estate development & the inclusive city, Provada Property Development Fair
• The Oulu Vision – From ideas to reality, City Council
• Genk: Retrofitting & urban renaissance, City Council

May

• Drammen, Norway – City regions & their Increased Potential, Greater Oslo Region
• Tirana – Imagination & the Post- Communist City – Polis University

April

• Heerlen – Spring is in the Air – Launch speech of a creative incubator
• Dortmund – launch presentation for the European Centre for the Creative Economy

March

• Aberdeen – city garden visioning conference
• Maastricht – The European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf) Creative Urbanism
• Moscow – Creative Development Forum – Uk Trade & Investment
• St. Petersburg – Creative Urbanity & The Green Agenda
• Copenhagen – Smaller Cities: A Look At Their Potential, Realdania

February

• Towards A More Creative Bureaucracy – Auckland City Amalgamation Conference
• Penang – Getting Penang To The Next Level Strategy Workshop

January

• Green Urbanism & Eco-Urbanity First National Sustainability Conference, Paris

2010

Projects completed in 2010

• Bilbao: The Creative City Index Evaluation System created
• Umea: European Capital of Culture consultancy
• Helsinki as an Open and Intercultural City
• Perth: Thinker in Residence follow-up
• Geraldton, Western Australia: Managing Growth & Prospects

Talks, facilitation & strategic advice

December

• Oulu: What Is Urban Culture & Why Is It Important

November

• Cheltenhan, UK: Gloucestershire is Ready for Business
• Ghent, Belgium: ‘The Creative City Index’, The Flemish Economic Scientific Conference
• Kirklees, UK: ‘Attainable Sustainable’ – Exploring new ideas in regeneration
• Korca, Albania: The Final Event Creative Cities II project
• Istanbul, Turkey: Creative Cities & Creative Industries in the 21st Century
• Canberra, Australia: Measuring the Pulse of Canberra, Australian Master Builders Federation

October

• Karratha, Australia: West Australian Department of Regional Development
• Shanghai, China: UNCTAD Creative Economy Week
• Shanghai, China: ‘Cities & Cultural Diversity’ 3rd Chinese European Cultural Dialogue
• Essen, Germany: ‘Metropolises & Culture’ Ruhr 2010 European Cultural Capital, Les Rencontres

September

• Trieste, Italy: Keynote at ‘The Role of Citizenship Education within the Development of Cities and Urban Spaces’
• Sarpsborg, Norway: National Public Health and Planning Conference
• Lleida, Spain: Cities & Creativities, the 10th Urban Studies Week, University of Lleida
• Brandenburg, Germany: Joint international event – METREX, Capital Region of Berlin-Brandenburg and the European transnational project SCANDRIA.
• Santa Margherita, Italy: Scenari Immobiliari’s 18th Annual Conference

August

• Berlin, Germany: Ueber Lebenskunst Competition, member of jury
• Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: ‘The potential of North Island’, the Urban Planning Committee

June

• Freiburg, Germany: ‘Excellent Green City: Innovation and Creativity’, an assessment of Freiburg. Freiburg Economic Development and Tourism Authority
• Port Hedland, WA: ‘Place-making & mining cities’, BHP & FORM
• Perth, WA: ‘Measuring the creativity of Perth’, FORM

May

• Bali, Indonesia: ’The green city and real estate development’, FIABCI (The International Real Estate Federation) World Congress 2010
• Oulu, Finland: ‘The Pulse of the City – The Possibilities of Cultural Oriented City Development’. Municipality of Oulu
• Bradford-on-Avon, UK: ‘Six Towns and a Vale in Search of an Economic Future’, The Royal Society of Arts
• Milan, Italy: ‘Engaging youth in suburban regeneration’, BINOMI – Biennale Nord Ovest Milano Initiative
• Ghent, Belgium: ‘The creative bureaucracy’, The Association of Flemish Cities and Municipalities annual meeting

April

• Istanbul, Turkey: ‘Is Istanbul creative?’, Capital of Culture 2010 Committee and teaching master classes at Bilgi University
• Helsinki, Finland: ‘The Intercultural City: A summary of possibilities for Helsinki’, City Council
• Bath, UK: ‘Thinking again about Bath’s cultural life’, Bath Art Talks
• Lexington, Kentucky: ‘Can smaller cities get on the global radar screen’, Third Creative Cities Summit

March

• Han University, Netherlands: ‘The university as a creative milieu’ Keynote to open new art and design faculty building at Han University in Nijmegen.
• Odense, Denmark: ‘The Creative Bureaucracy’, Annual conference of REG LAB the Danish towns and cities association
• Geraldton, WA: ‘Envisioning the future of Geraldton’, City Council
• Perth, WA: ‘Growth problems for small mining communities’, Chevron & FORM
• Chelmsford, Essex: ‘Creating a vision for smaller towns’, Royal Society of the Arts

February

• Umea, Sweden: ‘Making the most of being European city of Culture 2012’, Umea Municipality
• Stockholm, Sweden: ‘The potential of Umea as a creative environment’, Vastterbotten Regional Government

January

• Gloucestershire, UK: ‘Galvanising Gloucestershire’ Gloucestershire First Partnership, the economic development unit

2009

December

• Geraldton, WA: ‘Urban visioning – the next steps’, City Council & business leaders group
• Swan City, Perth: ‘The Intercultural City’, FORM & City Council
• Hong Kong, China: ‘Design and City Making’, BODW 2009, the Business of Design Week
• Tirana, Albania: ‘Making the most of the potential of smaller Albanian cities’, Creative Cities II initiative, Swiss Cultural Programme

November

• Helsinki, Finalnd: ‘Changing socio-demographics and the role of the intercultural city’, Helsinki City Council
• Brussels, Belgium: ‘The Intercultural City’, a briefing event for the European Commission
• Dortmund, Germany: ‘How do places become creative quarters?’, Kreative Quartiere Conference
• Windsor Park, UK: ‘Hope in the Built Environment’, Cumberland Lodge conferences

October

• Bremen, Germany: ‘Images of the City’ Deutsche Akademie fuer Staedtebau und Landesplanung
• Maastricht, The Netherlands: ‘Borderless creativity’, International Creativity & Innovation conference, the Province of Limburg
• Genoa, Italy: ‘The Art of City Making’, The Genoa Science Festival
• Bilbao, Spain: ‘The Creative Capacity of the Basque Country’ Creativity & Innovation Week
• Toronto, Canada: ‘The Creative Bureaucracy’, Artscape: The Collaborative City conference
• Amsterdam, The Netherlands: ‘Bridging the gap between thinkers, scientists and city managers’, NICIS, the Dutch Knowledge Centre for Cities

September

• Aalborg, The Netherlands: ‘The sensory landscape of cities’, Architecture and Stages of the Experience City, University of Aalborg
• Tilburg, The Netherlands: ‘Comeback Cities’, The city’s 200th anniversary celebration
• Daegu, Korea: ‘Using urban cultural resources creatively’, Daegu Creativity Centre & the City Council
• Seoul, Korea: ‘Global best practices in commercial place-making’, Yongsan International Business district and METAA

August

• Helsinki, Finland: ‘Creating the experiential city – new trends in city making’, TEKES – Finnish Agency for Technology & Innovation

June

• Cheltenham, UK: ‘Getting Gloucestershire onto the Global Radar’, ‘Growing Gloucestershire conference, Gloucestershire First, economic development unit
• Rochester, UK: ‘Using artistic resources imaginatively’, University of the Creative Arts
• Amsterdam, The Netherlands: ‘Green Real Estate for the 21st century’, Triodos Bank contribution to the ‘Provada, the Real Estate Meeting Point’
• Bilbao, Spain: ‘Cultural resources and the city’, Basque University summer course

May

• Newcastle: ‘What makes great cities?’, The Academy of Urbanism’s Annual Conference
• Leicester, UK: ‘Leicester: A re-assessment of its achievements – a 5 year review’, Leicestershire Economic Partnership
• Malaga: ‘Creative City: A toolkit for urban innovators’, The First Urban Commerce Forum
• London: ‘Global trends in city making’ London School of Economics executive programme for emerging Dubai leaders

April

• Manchester, UK: ‘How can Manchester’s Knowledge Corridor become World Class?’, South Manchester Partnership
• Halifax, Canada: ‘Creative places and spaces’ Annual event for the Economic Development and Cultural Department
• Tel-Aviv, Israel: Keynote at the city’s 100th anniversary celebrations

March

• Brisbane, Australia: The Festival of Ideas: ‘The Art and Science of Establishing an Intercultural City’
• Espoo, Finland: The Learning City Project: ‘What is the Scope of Creativity?’
• Maastricht, The Netherlands: Comprehensive Creativity Forum, The European Fine Art Foundation
• Freiburg, Germany: ‘Cities for the Future’ City Board of Economic Advisors Annual Forum

Earlier

• Belfast, Getting Irish Towns and Cities on the Radar Screen, Strategic Investment Board
• Imatra, the Potential of Smaller Towns, the Association of Finnish Towns
• London, Reimagining the Gateway, Thames Gateway Forum
• Belfast, Inspiring innovative City Making, British Council
• Enschede, Netherlands Open Innovation and Creativity in Management and Governance, University of Twente
• Mechelen, Belgium, Marketing the City, CityMakers Mechelen
• Penang, World Bank Symposium on Repositioning Penang, Khazanah Nasional Berhad
• Quito, Ecuador, Creative Tourism, Quito Tourism Board
• Almere, Netherlands, The Art of Making an Intercultural City, De Pavilleons Museum
• Shenzhen, The City of Design and more, the Creative Culture Centre
• Hong Kong, Infrastructure for a Creative Age, the Global Infrastructure Finance Conference, Euromoney

2008

• Enschede, Netherlands, the Roombeek Revitalisation Celebrations
• Oslo, The New Thinking on Cities, Statsbygg, the Norwegian National Government Property Management Body
• Birmingham, Health Cities, Creative Cities, Core Cities Network
• Umea, Sweden, What is a Future Library?, Cultural Department
• Rome, The Future of Local Authority Finance, Euormoney
• Add Valdosta to Savannah – two separate talks
• Oporto, Portugal, Creative Clusters and Oporto’s Potential, Serralves Foundation
• Penang, The Four Pillars of Sustainability, Khazanah Nasional Berhad
• Detroit Creative Cities Summit
• INTA Global Urban Development Conference in Riga, Latvia
• Les Rencontres: Europe Capital of Culture Conference, Stavanger
• Bandung, Indonesia: Far Eastern Creative Cities Network of The British Council
• Santa Fe: The UNESCO Creative Tourism Conference
• Winnipeg Canadian Urnab Planners Conference
• Savanna, Georgia, USA: Making the Most of Heritage Tourism
• Bankgkok, Thailand: Creativity & Design Centre – Unfolding Creativities Conference
• Seoul City Government Creative Administration

2007

• Revisioning Dubai in the 21st Century, Urbis & Urban Planning Committee, (December 2007)
• Korean Distinctiveness and the Creative City, Asian Development Conference, Busan, Korea, (November 2007)
• Japanese Distinctiveness and the Creative City, Asian Development Conference, Kitakyushu, Japan, (November 2007)
• From Hard Assets to Soft Assets, Creativity World Forum, Qingdao, China, (October 2007)
• Making Assets out of seemingly nothing: The World Hot Spring Culture – Beppu as a Creative City, Beppu, Japan, (October 2007)
• Moving on from the Creative City Agenda, World Creative City Forum: Developing the Creative City through Networking, Senri Foundation, Osaka, (October 2007)
• Creativity and Knowledge Capital in Urban Development, 1st World Knowledge Summit, Monterrey, Mexico, (October 2007)
• Repositioning Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico, (October 2007)
• Healthy Cities can spark the Imagination, WHO Healthy Cities Conference, Rennes, France, (October 2007)
• Suburban Futures, Arts Depot, London, (September 2007)
• Rethinking the City, International Federation of Housing & Planning, Copenhagen, (September 2007)
• The Art of (Great) City Making, Institute of Human Machine Cognition, Pensacola, Florida, (September 2007)
• Creating Annapolis: Urban Innovation in the 21st Century, enVisioning Annapolis, MD, USA, (September 2007)
• Live the Culture: The Grano Seminars, Toronto, (September 2007)
• Provocations to the City of Toronto, the Ramsay Group, Toronto, (September 2007)
• Creativity & Ontario’s Economic Prosperity Strategy, Ontario Federal Government, Toronto, (September 2007)
• Thinking artistically about Cities, the Metropolis Laboratory, Thinking Metropolis – Copenhagen International Theatre Festival, (August 2007)
• From the Creative Economy to the Creative City, British Council Far East Symposium, Yokohama, (July 2007)
• Creativity & Identity: The potential of New Zealand’s secondary cities, Hamilton City Council, (July 2007)
• How can we be imaginative about the future of Cockburn?, FORM Creative Capital Programme, FORM, Perth, (June 2007)
• Culture and Creativity, Cultural Capital Istanbul, (June 2007)
• Competitiveness, Creativity and the Future of Business, World Forum for Direct Investment, Bologna, (June 2007)
• Creative Europe – Vision or Utopia: How to win the Future with Culture, The Power of Culture in European Cities Congress, Federal Ministry of Culture and Hamburg Senate, May 2007
• Space, Place, Life, Academy of Urbanism, Dublin Castle, Dublin, (May 2007)
• Artists and the City, Annual Arts Awards, Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville, (April 2007)
• Museums as Urban Regenerators, Children’s Museum, Pittsburgh, (April 2007)
• The Art of City Making, the Salem Partnership, Salem, Mass., April 2007
• The Power of the Creative Economy, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, (April 2007)
• An Artistic Approach to City Development, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, (March 2007)
• Is Mumbai a World City? The British Council, Mumbai, (March 2007)
• The Sensory City, the Centre for Subtropical Design, Brisbane, (March 2007)
• Living Smarter: The Future of South East Queensland, Office of Urban Management, Gold Coast, (March 2007)
• Mining as an Opportunity for Imaginative Rethinking, the Shire County, Port Headland, WA, February (2007)
• Creative Capital Programme: A series of talks to Perth’s leaderships, Perth, (February 2007)
• Re-thinking and Re-dreaming Beyoglu: Culture and Tourism Led Strategies for Regeneration, Beyoglu Partnership, Istanbul, (January 2007)
• An Imaginative Visitor & Tourism Strategy, Culture Department Blackpool, (January 2007)

2006

• Getting on the Radar Screen: Progressing towards a Creative Capital, FORM, Perth, WA, (December 2006)
• Problems as Creative Opportunities, the Urban Regeneration Company, Blackpool, (November 2006)
• Alternative Cultures and Creativity, Radialsystem, Berlin, (November 2006)
• Culture & Development: Approaches to Practice, German Ministry for Development & the Goethe Institut, Berlin, (November 2006)
• The Art of City Making and the Role of Cultural Institutions,
• Engage in the Visual Arts Conference, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, (November 2006)
• Providing the Creative Environment: Cities as New Incubators for Creative Business, World Creativity Forum, Ghent, (November 2006)
• Art makes the City, the Nordic Cities Network, Trondheim, Norway, (November 2006)
• Thinking Differently about Cities: Inspirational Speakers Forum, Birmingham, (November 2006)
• Creative DC: Engaging the Spirit, Downtown Association, Washington, (9November 2006)
• Art, Artists and City Making, Grantmakers to the Arts, New York, (November 2006)
• History and Creativity: Great Partners, the National Preservation Conference, Pittsburgh, (November 2006)
• Can Artists Make Great Places, Arts & Business, London, (November 2006)
• Making the Knowledge City, West Northants Development Corporation, Northampton, (October 2006)
• Problems as Opportunities: Albanian cities and their Creative Potential, Tirana, (October 2006)
• Health and Creativity, Local Governments and Health Development, WHO Healthy Cities Conference, Turku, Finland, (October 2006)
• Making the Most of Urban Assets, the Connect EU Programme Final Conference, Belfast, (October 2006)
• 100 Years Forward 100 Years Back, the Daniel Burnham Centenary Celebrations, Chicago Architectural Foundation, Chicago, (October 2006)
• Designing Cities with a Creative Touch, Sarasota International Design Summit, Ringling School of Art, Florida, (October 2006)
• Challenges for the Richmond Leadership, Richmond, VA, (October 2006)
• Creative Fuel, the Creative Change Center & Venture Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA, (October 2006)
• Culture, Competitiveness, Community and Creativity, Canada’s Federal, Provincial and Territorial Ministers responsible for Culture and Heritage, Toronto, (September 2006)
• Hemispheric Mayor’s Meeting between North and South American Leaders, CEOs for Cities, Miami, (September 2006)
• Culture and Urban Regeneration, URBACT final conference, Roubaix, France, (September 2006)
• Culture for European Towns and Cities, Festivaletteratura, Mantua, Italy, (September 2006)
• The Future of the Creative City, the Green Party Congress, Berlin, (September 2006)
• The Creative City and its Relevance to Greece, the Symi Symposium, Samos, Greece, (July 2006)
• Creativity without Frontiers, the Belgrade Festival of Ideas, Belgrade, July 2006
• Cinderella Cities: Tales of Modern Urban Renaissance, ULI, Birmingham, (June 20060
• Culture as a Tool for Revitalization, the Gorlitz Denksalon, Germany (June 2006)
• New York and its Creative Potential, the Rockefeller Foundation, New York (June 2006)
• What makes a Great Place, the Great Towns Meeting, York, (May 2006)
• The Green Agenda and the Creative City, the Green Party, Hamburg, (May 2006)
• Challenging Thinking about the City, Festival of Ideas, Bristol, (May 2006)
• Cultural Transitions in South-Eastern Europe: The Creative City: Crossing Visions and New Realities in the Region, Dubrovnik, (May 2006)
• Stirring it Up, Wakefield Cultural Partnership, Wakefield (April 2006)
• Singapore and the Creativity Agenda, Singapore Heritage Commission, (April 2006)
• The Creative Capital and Perth’s Potential, FORM, Perth WA, (April 2006)
• Imagine the Impacts: Rethinking the City, NZPIA National Congress, Gold Coast, (April 2006)
• Stirring Culture, A Centennial Discussion on Imagination, Arts, Community, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary & Edmonton, March 2006
• Art, Artists, Change & Inspiration, The Musagetes Retreat, Quebec City, (March 2006)
• Lessons Learnt from using Culture in Development, Pro Helvetia, Zurich, (March 2006)
• Cross-regional Collaboration: Lille Metropole, Lille, (March 2006)
• Uncommon Solutions to Common Problems: Creativity from Below, City Stories KATHA Asia International Utsav, Delhi, (January 2006)

2005

• The Making of a Creative City: International Forum, Taipei, (December 2005)
• The Art of City Making, METAA Symposium, Seoul, (December 2005)
• The Goal of the Creative City, Yokohama Symposium, (December 2005)
• The Way of Thinking about the Creative Cities, Tottori, Japan, (December 2005)
• The Age of the City: The Challenge for Creative Cities, Senri Foundation, Osaka, (December 2005)
• Culture in Regeneration:The Asian Culture Symposium, Gwangju, Korea, (December 2005)
• Culture & Urban Regeneration, URBACT, Gijon, Spain (November 2005)
• The Creative Industries: Benefiting from Growth, Design Museum, London, (November 2005)
• From Dawn to Dusk: Urban Dream or Civic Nightmare, Civic Trust, London, (November 2005)
• From Bilbao to Bryne: Culture as the Driver of the Creative City, Stavanger, Norway (October 2005)
• Creative Clusters and Creative Quarters, the First Moscow International ‘Culture Plus’ Forum, Moscow, (October 2005)
• Making spaces for creative places 41st Isocarp conference, Bilbao, October 2005
• Innovating Cities across the World International Platform on Sustainable Urban Development, Geneva (October 2005)
• Cultures role in development Swiss Development Co-operation, Berne (October 2005)
• Creativity Matters, Santa Clara, Silicon Valley, (October 2005)
• The Risk Revolution, Artscape, Toronto (October 2005)
• Cultural strategies and creativity, VOCAL, Dundee (September 2005)
• Culture & Development: Lessons Learnt, Swiss Development Co-operation, Tirana (August 2005)
• Urban development: Perspectives from the cutting edge, National Housing Federation, Warwick (July 2005)
• Creative Risk: Bending the rules to get things done British Urban Regeneration Association, London (July 2005)
• The relevance of culture and creativity to developing countries German Technical Zusammenarbeit, Frankfurt, (June 2005)
• Creating a cultural city – Cork European City of Culture Cork (June 2005)
• The Art of City Making and the Creative City Providence RI & London Ontario (June 2005)
• Aligning Professional Mindsets The London Development Agency (May 2005)
• The Annual Cultural Industries Quarter Lecture Sheffield (April 2005)
• How can Doncaster get on the radar screen Doncaster (April 2005)
• How can Worcester become a creative city Worcester, Mass (April 2005)
• Creative CapitalKennisland conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands (March 2005)
• The Creative City – An introduction Kuopio and Jyvaskyla, Finland (March 2005)
• Creative quarters and creative cities Wolverhampton (February 2005)
• Leadership and creativity Memphis Leadership Forum, Memphis (February 2005)
• The Creative City – An introduction Cork & Dublin (February 2005)
• The risk society and the development of cities Urban Summit, Manchester (February 2005)

2004

• Riding the rapids: The creative city in an age of complexity Toronto, Philadelphia, New Orleans (December 2004)
• The Magnetic South Eastbourne, (November 2004)
• Cultural resources and the making of places South West Museums, Archives and Library Services (November 2004)
• The Art of City Making conference Birmingham (October 2004)
• The cultural responsibilities of urban agglomerations Montreal (October 2004)
• Creative Cities Summit, St. Petersburg, USA (September 2004)
• Urban Futurology: Walsall Art Gallery, Walsall (August 2004)
• The Cutting Edge of Cultural Policy, Mount Engadine, Banff, Canada (July 2004)
• Norwegian Association of Housing and Town Planning, Tromso (June 2004)
• Stamsund International Theatre Festival, Lofoten Islands (June 2004)
• Norwegian Arts & Business Association, Oslo (June 2004)
• Urban Regeneration in Slovenia, Ljubljana (June 2004)
• Dublin City Competitiveness Conference, Dublin (May 2004)
• Homezone Conference, Lowestoft (May 2004)
• Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney (May 2004)
• Innovation in Cites Australian British Chamber of Commerce, Sydney (May 2004)
• Innovation and Creativity Festival, Canberra (May 2004)
• Massachusetts Cultural Council, Boston (April 2004)
• Salem Partnership, Salem, Mass (April 2004)
• Sustainable creativity Convergence Environmental Festival, Dublin (April 2004)
• Creative Cities Programme, Shkodra and Pogradec, Albania (March 2004)
• URBACT – Culture and Regeneration Network, Naples (March 2004)
• Tokyo Chamber of Commerce, (February 2004)
• Yokohama City Council (February 2004)
• The Age of the City, Osaka (February 2004)
• The creative industries in creative cities Barents Sea Foundation, Kirkenes, Norway(January 2004)

2003

• Style Cities, Liverpool (December 2003)
• Salzburg Seminar: Cultural Institutions in Transition (October 2003)
• The Inward Investment Association, London (October 2003)
• The New Cultural Leadership – The Museums Association, Brighton (October 2003)
• Creativity and the City, Amsterdam (September 2003)