Government is perhaps the single most important actor in community development and author, urban thinker, founder of Comedia, Charles Landry, believes that if we can make government more creative and more collaborative, we make our communities better. This week’s Campaign of Ideas video highlights Charles’ keynote presentation at Creative Places + Spaces where he underlines how innovating bureaucracy is the challenge for everyone to turn their cities into great places.
Charles Landry’s video is paired with CP+S On Location video spotlight Nerd Jam, a short film by Moira Simpson demonstrating how Design Nerds, a Vancouver-based group of designers, architects, planners, engineers and artists are creating pedal-powered contraptions to be deployed on Vancouver’s disused railway lines through interdisciplinary collaboration and open-source resourcefulness.
If you haven’t already watched the first series of videos from our conference series featuring the thought-provoking Sir Ken Robinson, David Buckland, Richard Florida, the Open Access Science Panel with Aled Edwards, Pekka Sinervo, Ilse Treunicht, or the Interventionist Media Panel with Katerina Cizek, Gerry Flahive and Dr. Katherine Rouleau, you can check them out on Artscape’s Youtube Channel or click directly on their names above.
Charles Landry: Creative Bureaucracy
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"Charles Landry: Creative Bureaucracy"
Video Resources:
Book: The Other Invisible Hand, Charles Landry
Book: The Theory of the Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith
The Sunship, Freiberg Germany
Aalto University, Helsinki
FORM, Perth
BM30, Bilbao
Apps for Democracy Innovation
Forum Virium
Nerd Jam
Directed by Moira Simpson, on location in Vancouver, British Columbia
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"Nerd Jam"
The Vancouver Design Nerds do their most interesting work, after work. An interdisciplinary group of designer, architects, planners and engineers, collaborate in their spare time to explore sustainability through art and city engagement. The ‘nerds’ use open source ideas and a collective rather than hierarchical structure to realize their shared ideas. The Vancouver Design Nerds story demonstrates that inspiration, creativity and collaboration are the essential ingredients to innovation and art.
Video Resources:
Vancouver Design Nerds Society
Eat ART
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Moira Simpson
Upcoming Related Events in Toronto
Join CP+S Keynote Speaker David Buckland at the Cape Farewell Film Screening: "Burning Ice"
Cape Farewell and Cactus Three Film (producer consultants of “The Cove”) are delighted to announce the Canadian premiere of a new feature film, Burning Ice. The film documents the journey of a group of artists (including Canadian artists Feist and Martha Wainwright) on a Cape Farewell expedition to the high Arctic to experience, first hand, the tipping points of climate change. Toronto Mayor David Miller will introduce the film.
Date: Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Time: 7pm
Place: The Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles, Toronto
Cost: $10 Adult, $8 Seniors and under 18 years
Tickets will be available the evening of the film on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
We often think of leadership in a singular, individual sense. But the theme that emerged among this year's group of Urban Leadership Award winners was one of collective leadership, and of its ability and power through partnerships and collaboration to not only dream of more innovative goals, but to reach for and achieve them. Date: Thursday, June 3, 2010 To purchase tickets or for more information email:
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, or call: 416-365-0816 ext.221. Visit the Canadian Urban Institute’s website for more information on the winners of this year’s Urban Leadership Awards www.canurb.org/events Panelists will identify their priorities for Toronto if elected Mayor followed by a debate specifically focused on real estate issues facing the next term of City Council. Panelists include: Rob Ford, Giorgio Mammoliti, Joe Pantalone, Rocco Rossi, George Smitherman and Sarah Thompson. Date: Monday, June 21, 2010 To register or for more information visit www.toronto.uli.org or call 1-800-321-5011
Canadian Urban Institute’s 2010 Urban Leadership Awards Ceremony
Artscape’s very own President & CEO Tim Jones will receive this year’s Global City Award! This will be an exciting evening celebrating the accomplishments of this year's national award recipients, and a great opportunity to meet people who are changing their communities.
Time: 5:15 – 6:20 pm reception, 6:30 – 8:30 award ceremony
Place: Liberty Grand (Exhibition Place), Toronto
Cost: $99 members, $125 non-members
Toronto Mayoral Debate on Real Estate Issues
The Urban Land Institute Toronto is hosting the highly anticipated Mayoral Debate: Real Estate Issues on Monday, June 21.The debate will be moderated by John Tory, former Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, Newstalk 1010 host and Chair of the Toronto City Summit Alliance.
Time: 7:30 – 9:30 am
Place: The Toronto Board of Trade, First Canadian Place, 4th Floor, Toronto
Cost: $45 ULI members, $30 public (members/non-members), $70 non-members, $30 Young Leaders (ULI members under 35), $20 students/non-members
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