Donnerstag, 3. März 2005
Activity versus consume of products and services?
michael_dorka, 02:03h
Another quote to Richard Florida
It seems like products and „pure services“ are being gradually replaced by „stimulating experiences“; life is much more active nowadays and people are participating more rather than consuming.
The higher the education of the people the more these feel attracted to spaces that give them opportunities to explore, to experience or to challenge themselves.
What kind of places are we talking about?
Parks, trails, lakes or any more or less “natural” places, which could be even artificially built (nice contrast to the older eras in history where natural space was taken by inhabitants to be replaced by working or living space) or the so called “street culture” places, which are multifunctional neighborhoods.
Florida describes this culture as “…originally grows from its surroundings and a sizeable number of the creators and patrons of the culture live close by”.
Different kinds of people come together to partake or to participate in a culture that might result of ideas with foreign origins or reflects the idea of street art and perfomance.
This culture consists of many parts as bars, restaurants, stores, galleries etc. and these are more or less “grown” but these parts have all in common that they don´t follow fashion trends (see also the steadiness of places, image of the city, Kevin Lynch) and that they are open to everyone. They are happening within streets or squares, but in anyway in public space which have no entry fees and they invite the people to participate.
“ It is not only a scene but many; a music scene, an art scene, nightlife scene etc.”
This does not mean that “high art” places like museums or theaters are not necessary anymore, people will surely still go, but in contrast to high art events the street culture is ongoing and offers “room” to people even without big salary or income. Even the intensity, the level and the duration can be defined individually
It seems like products and „pure services“ are being gradually replaced by „stimulating experiences“; life is much more active nowadays and people are participating more rather than consuming.
The higher the education of the people the more these feel attracted to spaces that give them opportunities to explore, to experience or to challenge themselves.
What kind of places are we talking about?
Parks, trails, lakes or any more or less “natural” places, which could be even artificially built (nice contrast to the older eras in history where natural space was taken by inhabitants to be replaced by working or living space) or the so called “street culture” places, which are multifunctional neighborhoods.
Florida describes this culture as “…originally grows from its surroundings and a sizeable number of the creators and patrons of the culture live close by”.
Different kinds of people come together to partake or to participate in a culture that might result of ideas with foreign origins or reflects the idea of street art and perfomance.
This culture consists of many parts as bars, restaurants, stores, galleries etc. and these are more or less “grown” but these parts have all in common that they don´t follow fashion trends (see also the steadiness of places, image of the city, Kevin Lynch) and that they are open to everyone. They are happening within streets or squares, but in anyway in public space which have no entry fees and they invite the people to participate.
“ It is not only a scene but many; a music scene, an art scene, nightlife scene etc.”
This does not mean that “high art” places like museums or theaters are not necessary anymore, people will surely still go, but in contrast to high art events the street culture is ongoing and offers “room” to people even without big salary or income. Even the intensity, the level and the duration can be defined individually
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Freitag, 18. Februar 2005
The Rise Of The Creative Class, Richard Florida, notes
michael_dorka, 01:05h
- “Every human being is creative in some way and creativity can not be handed down and it can not be owned in the traditional sense. It defies gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and outward experience.”
- Agriculture, trade markets, industry, organizations to the mobile decade:
Great economic shifts bring massive tensions and disruptions. The shift from an agricultural to a capitalist industrial economy generated incredible disruption and social turmoil- huge flows of people from farm to the factory, from the rural hinterlands to great urban centers and brought social problems ranging from workplace injury to crime, congestion and disease. The first great shift in human society was the organized agriculture. An acre of cultivated cropland gave more food than an acre of wilderness. It was much more reliable then hunting, also the idea of adding something to nature was revolutionary, compared by hunting and therefore taking away from nature (the first time in human history that artificial trash was produced). Animals were not only eaten but also their “products” like milk, eggs etc. were taken into account. The agriculture transformation let dramatically to changes in everyday life and in society as well. Life was attuned to the daily tending of crops and livestocks, and to the seasonal activities of sowing and harvesting and animal breading. Archaeological evidence shows that as the practice of agriculture spread people gradually become more densely settled into villages and communities; the first city-state appeared with urban administrative hubs surrounded by farmland. New class structures and power relations emerged, and new occupations proliferated and flourished, helping to set in motion yet another period of transition and advances. During that time space became it first main role in the human history even though the problem of too less space these days did not exist.
With the idea of producing out of natural resources mankind stepped into the next important era, where space became more important.
New forms of specializations appeared, productions – the making of tools, textiles, clothes and household goods. Space was not only needed and used to produce artificial objects but also trade them later on the first market places. To offer these “products” to as many people as possible the idea of artificial towns or cities were attracting and a logical consequence. Farm families were growing their own food and made their own clothes, but specialized trade people living in cities had to buy goods other then their own. Cities became centers of specialization on diverse interaction. From here the step into the modern factory was probably one of the most important influences on societies, their work- and living places.
The basic idea of a factory is to bring large numbers of workers together with all their various tools, materials and skills in one place , with a high degree of division of labor, to produce efficiently. It was a method for pulling together all the factors of production. “the factory system”, writes the historian Marc Demorest ” offered the craft producer a release from the most culturally and emotionally damaging eventuality of the nineteenth century: moving from the house to get to work.” (Marc Demorest, “The Firm And The Guild: On The Future Of Knowledge Work And Information Technology”, April 1995.
With scientific and technological knowledge machineries, steam engines and the electric generator were invented which made the work even more efficient. This new system of working changed once again the structure of society, rhythms and patterns of everyday life. For the first time, large numbers of people worked in different locations from where they lived. Whereas the experience of time had been more or less natural in previous ages, the factory workday was organized into distinct periods of time or “working hours”.
Cities not only grew, but were subdivided into new sorts of districts. With building huge factories older buildings or spaces disappeared and people could observe of how also transportation systems conquered the cities.
- Agriculture, trade markets, industry, organizations to the mobile decade:
Great economic shifts bring massive tensions and disruptions. The shift from an agricultural to a capitalist industrial economy generated incredible disruption and social turmoil- huge flows of people from farm to the factory, from the rural hinterlands to great urban centers and brought social problems ranging from workplace injury to crime, congestion and disease. The first great shift in human society was the organized agriculture. An acre of cultivated cropland gave more food than an acre of wilderness. It was much more reliable then hunting, also the idea of adding something to nature was revolutionary, compared by hunting and therefore taking away from nature (the first time in human history that artificial trash was produced). Animals were not only eaten but also their “products” like milk, eggs etc. were taken into account. The agriculture transformation let dramatically to changes in everyday life and in society as well. Life was attuned to the daily tending of crops and livestocks, and to the seasonal activities of sowing and harvesting and animal breading. Archaeological evidence shows that as the practice of agriculture spread people gradually become more densely settled into villages and communities; the first city-state appeared with urban administrative hubs surrounded by farmland. New class structures and power relations emerged, and new occupations proliferated and flourished, helping to set in motion yet another period of transition and advances. During that time space became it first main role in the human history even though the problem of too less space these days did not exist.
With the idea of producing out of natural resources mankind stepped into the next important era, where space became more important.
New forms of specializations appeared, productions – the making of tools, textiles, clothes and household goods. Space was not only needed and used to produce artificial objects but also trade them later on the first market places. To offer these “products” to as many people as possible the idea of artificial towns or cities were attracting and a logical consequence. Farm families were growing their own food and made their own clothes, but specialized trade people living in cities had to buy goods other then their own. Cities became centers of specialization on diverse interaction. From here the step into the modern factory was probably one of the most important influences on societies, their work- and living places.
The basic idea of a factory is to bring large numbers of workers together with all their various tools, materials and skills in one place , with a high degree of division of labor, to produce efficiently. It was a method for pulling together all the factors of production. “the factory system”, writes the historian Marc Demorest ” offered the craft producer a release from the most culturally and emotionally damaging eventuality of the nineteenth century: moving from the house to get to work.” (Marc Demorest, “The Firm And The Guild: On The Future Of Knowledge Work And Information Technology”, April 1995.
With scientific and technological knowledge machineries, steam engines and the electric generator were invented which made the work even more efficient. This new system of working changed once again the structure of society, rhythms and patterns of everyday life. For the first time, large numbers of people worked in different locations from where they lived. Whereas the experience of time had been more or less natural in previous ages, the factory workday was organized into distinct periods of time or “working hours”.
Cities not only grew, but were subdivided into new sorts of districts. With building huge factories older buildings or spaces disappeared and people could observe of how also transportation systems conquered the cities.
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