Cultural Development and Information Networks in the 21C
4-5 November 2009, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Backgrounds and Purpose
1) To discuss how to increase cultural networks and develop mutual understanding among Asia-Pacific countries. 2) To understand the importance and role of cultural information network in promoting communication among culture and art organizations. 3) To illuminate the role of the Asia-Pacific Regional Centre of Culturelink Network (APRCCN) in activating cultural projects
Conference Overview
Date: November 4 ~ 5, 2009
Venue: Seoul, Republic of Korea
Hosts: Korean National Commission for UNESCO and Ministry of Culture, Sports,
and Tourism (Office for Hub City of Asian Cultures)
Subject: Cultural Development and Information Networks in the 21C
Contents
Case studies of international network systems
- How to build networks between APRCCN and national focal points
- The role of APRCCN in connecting cultural and art institutes/organizations in Asia-Pacific
· Participants: Representatives of national focal points, professionals in the cultural field in Europe, foreign officials in culture and arts institutions, 15 officials and professionals in Korea, and approximately 30 observers
· Language: English and Korean (Translation service will be provided.)
Representative:
Andrew Lam, Director of MOST, Alternative Space (HONG KONG)
ABSTRACT:
Nowadays, model of cultural development/ culture is becoming a useful tool in the design and analysis of communication and urbanization strategies. It is tool with immense power to guide the course of city development, economic investment, community renewal and beautification of life. This paper proposes a model of culture that evolves from historical, contextual and disciplinary analyses. The findings extrapolated from the analyses reveal a reconfiguration of our cultural and economic system… This data can be further refined and generalized for a cross-cultural audience, resulting in the design factors of our cultural model, which is an intercultural operational framework that guides policy-designer through the design, management, development, and assessment process while taking into account explicit culture-based considerations. The structure of cultural model will be presented and some ideas on its practical application will be offered.
MODELS OF CULTURE:
Models of culture have traditionally been constructed to explain ways of societal growth and our urban existence and provide a framework for cross-cultural analysis, research, and urban design. These models of culture are multi-disciplinary and conceptualized in order to contemplate the existing and the utopian. The 41-ha Western Kowloon Arts District (WKAD) to be launched in Hong Kong will become one of the most large-scale cultural investments in the world. It will act as a pilot-scheme model, or a good reference to postulate critical arguments in policy development over times in the future.
THE HYPOTHESIZED EQUILIBRIUM MODEL OF CULTURE
The paper aims to postulate an embedded cultural theory in policy planning. Firstly, the “Culturo-Genetic Analysis (CEA)” involves three inter-related research aspects: the culturo-historical study will be initiated in parallel as biological examination of evolutionary relatedness among various art groups or institutions, in which a perspective is created through a cultural research like molecular-sequence data processing and morphological data matrices in genetic science (phylogenesis); the historical study of acculturation or structural change in a unity as a holistic approach in an open-ecosystem, which includes individual art form, artist, art organization, or society of art infrastructure, that allows different unities to co-exist (ontogenesis); Finally, the contextual study of lateral, para/ co-existing cultural praxis or structures, which further involves a micro-practical view (microgenesis). These perspectives help form the analysis of our paper….
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Photo Credit: Zaha Hadid Light Furniture
Opening Date and Time: 04 November 2009 – 2:32pm
Date: 23 September 2009
Time: 10:32pm
Venue: Hilton Hotel, Seoul, S Korea
Contact: Andrew Lam Hon Kin
Phone: 98029440
