LATE: Innovate City
As the Supercity election draws closer, LATE at the Auckland Museum turns its back on the political platforms, slogans and promises - and focuses instead on the talents and creativity of Auckland's inhabitants.
LATE has three of Auckland's many bright stars joining Finlay Macdonald in a discussion on just how a city can innovate - and in particular what role can design and planning play in transforming a city. An important question when neither function has been well served over the city's history.
Finlay chairs a discussion with renowned architect Pete Bossley, whose company is a signatory to the New Zealand Urban Design Protocol and a member of the Urban Design Forum; urban historian Dr Chris Harris, who has written extensively on Auckland's transport system; and journalist Rod Oram, a frequent commentator on business, economics and innovation.
For the evening's music, we have invited some of the best of Auckland's bands and artists - music we think heralds a Supercity: flautist Miho Wada and her electrifying brand of Japanese punk-jazz; The Drab Doo-Riffs and their hot-wired garage rock; composer and producer Scratch 22 and his dynamic turntable skills; and Popstrangers and their exciting mix of psychedelic, pop-infused noise rock.
Smart Talk: Rod Oram / Pete Bossley / Chris Harris
Great Music: Popstrangers / The Drab Doo-Riffs / Miho Wada / Scratch 22
When: Thursday 2 September, doors open 6.30pm
Cost: Pre-sales $20 (plus booking fee)
Entry via southern Atrium
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26 August 2010 - 11:28 AM
Thanks for your ideas and comments about how a city can innovate - and what role design and planning play in transforming a city.
You've all* won a double-pass to LATE: Innovate City at the Auckland Museum on September 2.
*That's all eight of you who entered before August 30 midnight. Entry details will be emailed shortly.
Cities are changing greatly through time. Look at the photos of the same city you are in 100 years ago.
Innovations are unavoidable.
I believe the artists in the different cities should be sponsored by the government to create some unique art for the city to leave it for the future generations (sculptures, paintings, music etc).
Opportunity for the local artists to have a Free Museum where their art could be represented should be an initiative of each city.
I would suggest a national competition through New Zealand annually that will be a sponsored project for the best design for, e.g. Art School or Cultural Centre.
Stay positive.
Miho Wada is simply invigorating! This sounds like an evening to be inspired for sure.
The best thing the city could do to innovate is not to. Remember when the bus lanes were built? Now they want to get rid of them.
They put things in and take them out. Why not think things through for once?
Imagine a space where all people (all ethnicity, class, gender, ability, age, creed, national or visitor) could freely share and express their ideas? A place called the Idea Space. It would be a physical venue where people can sing, dance, draw, act, write stuff, build stuff and tear it down, exhibit things, look at observe, sit, do nothing, just be. But it wouldn't look like a building or anything institutional. I'm not quite sure what it would look like or where it would be. However it would in essence be the physical version of the Internet - free, uncensored, no restrictions on sharing, open access, owned by noone, organic, iterative. To engage with the Idea Space you wouldn't need to be anyone of acclaim or talent, you wouldn't need means or influence. You would just lay down your idea, your thing, your concept, your thought and leave it there...and walk away. Others would add to it or destroy it or ponder on it. It's power would be in the understanding that no-one owned it or controlled it. It would just be. If you have bought into such an idea - it is simply how I believe our art, and culture should be innovated - but they are not. Ramona
Great line up in both the talking heads and the singing/music heads.
Went to Peter Roche exhibition opening last night. we need to see more risk taking of the calibre that this guy takes on, a feast visually, challenging mentally and obviously a huge committment of time and vision. Kind of what we need our 'leaders' to be. Bloody well done on the LATE events a superb cresative use of a public facility. Open the rest of the cities public spaces up to more of this kind of initiative and innovation may well be ignited on a grand scale. Bruce
Thoughtful design and planning should be part of every great city's blueprint–how else can we ensure that we have the spaces for creative works of any and every kind. Cities need to be designed for play as well as work and that means artists of every kind can have enough scope to really get creative and bring art out of the studio and into everyday life. Now there's a goal.
Is a city simply a machine for living in, on grand scale? No. It's a community. and if you've ever looked at a high rise block of council flats it leaves you in no doubt that a city - people's lives - rest on how it's designed. For good and for bad. Only people who have a sense of humanity should innovate city design.
simply the design and planning can change the atmosphere of a city which can put this in a good or bad mind set which molds everything the work environment, the way the next generation is raised and much more.
31 August 2010 - 18:30 PM