TIMC 2015 Report by LINES LAB

THIS IS MY CITY 2015 ACTIVITY REPORT

THE CREATIVE FESTIVAL

INDEX: I- TIMC 2015 General Report II- DAY 1 [24th NOV] “TIMC TALKS” Powered By Pecha Kucha SHORT MOVIE SCREENING SESSION III – DAY 2 [28th NOV] HACHATHON MACAU INSTAMEET MACAU IV – DAY 3 [3rd DEC] LUSO DESIGN SHOW V – DAY 4 [5th DEC] FLOATING CABARET SHOW VI – DAY 5 [8th DEC] INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CREATIVE ECONOMIES: THINGKING, DEVELOPING, MAKING and INVESTING VI – DAY 6 [11th DEC] PUBLIC LECTURE by VICTOR GAMA DAY 7 [12th DEC] WORKSHOP by VICTOR GAMA VII – Press Clipping VIII – Special Thanks

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I – TIMC 2015 General Report Since 2007, the “Cultural Association +853” has been organizing and promoting an event called “THIS IS MY CITY” which has, throughout the years, evolved into the “THIS IS MY CITY –The Creative Festival”. This yearly Festival aggregates several types of activities such as workshops, conferences, exhibitions, creative installations, creative residencies, performances, and music concerts. The Festival is a multidisciplinary and multicultural event focusing on four key aspects: Creativity, Innovation, Urban Culture, and Technology. Its program comprises of several sessions that are grouped into 4 sets of activities: Educational Actions (workshops and conferences), Exhibitions (exhibitions and installations), Performances (concerts and shows), and Creative Residencies (creative and artistic interchange programs between Macau and foreign countries). On 2014 the “THIS IS MY CITY” assumed the festival’s format, the THIS IS MY CITY – The Creative Festival; possibly the only festival in Macau completely dedicated to the Creative Industries universe as a whole, posing as a showcase platform for what is being done, locally and around the world in terms of creative expression. For this year (2015), the 9th edition of THIS IS MY CITY, and the 2nd edition under a festival format, and in preparation for 10th edition, the festival assumed a more mature approach to the Creative Industries problematic by putting the focus on an international conference on the Creative Economies. This conference purpose is to bring to daylight, under several different and broad perspectives, the debate on the Creative Economies’ challenges, virtues and problems, with the aim of contributing for its real implementation in Macau. Counting with a set of prestigious experts on the fields of creativity and economy, from which we highlight Prof. Charles Landry (UK), who will deliver a keynote presentation, and it is our hope that the exchange of experiences and knowledge will stimulate and invigorate the developing Creative Industries of Macau.

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The program and its activities were organized as follows:

DAY 1 [24th NOV] • “TIMC TALKS” Powered By PechaKucha_(Educational Actions) • SHORT MOVIE SCREENING SESSION_(Educational Actions) DAY 2 [28th NOV] • HACHATHON MACAU_(Educational Actions) • INSTAMEET MACAU DAY 3 [3rd DEC] • LUSO DESIGN SHOW_(Exhibitions) DAY 4 [5th DEC] • FLOATING CABARET SHOW_(Performances) DAY 5 [8th DEC] • INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CREATIVE ECONOMIES: THINGKING, DEVELOPING, MAKING and INVESTING_(Educational Actions) DAY 6 [11th DEC] • PUBLIC LECTURE by VICTOR GAMA_(Educational Actions) DAY 7 [12th DEC] • WORKSHOP by VICTOR GAMA_(Educational Actions)

On the overall, this edition of the THIS IS MY CITY was marked by an increase of participation, audience and reach. It was also marked by a more solid and consistent program, which tried to approach the subject of creative industries on its different aspects.

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THIS IS MY CITY Number of events: 9 Number of speakers/participants: 33 Total audience: 500 (aprox.)

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II –

DAY 1 [24th NOV]

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“TIMC TALKS” Powered By PechaKucha (Educational Actions) Pecha Kucha Night was devised in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network and show their work in public. It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of “chit chat”, it rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images X 20 seconds. This format makes presentations concise and keeps things moving at a rapid pace. After the success of the 2010’s edition of THIS IS MY CITY, where the Pecha Kucha model was presented for the first time in Macau, and the 2013’s and 2014’s editions, where the THIS MY CITY Conferences “Powered By Pecha Kucha” were held; for the present edition, the Festival is bringing once more a session “Powered By Pecha Kucha! 2010_Cédric Meridet_José Drummond_Joshua Roberts_James Chu_Fortes Pakeong Sequeira_ŸRicardo Pinto_Nuno Soares_Tiago Quadros & Margarida Saraiva_Vincent Hoi_Yves Sonolet_Alice Kok_Maria João Grilo_2013_Chan Ka Keong_Tiago Frois_Joanne Kuai_João Cordeiro_Eric Chan_Yan Tin António Sou_Dead J & Dora S_Margarida Vila Nova_Erik Kuong_Maurício Martins_William Keong (Ginger)_Sio Kai Tong_Putchie_Siun Chong_2014_Crystal Chan_Paulo Rego_Benny Tang_Mónica Coteriano_Gerald Estadieu_Rui Leão_Shiori Yamaguchi

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SHORT MOVIE SCREENING SESSION (Educational Actions) Following last year’s successful Macau’s premier screening of the short movie “The Trycicle Thief”, by local director Max Bessmertny at the Albergue SMC’s picturesque courtyard, and with the intention of replicating the nostalgic atmosphere of an open air “Cinema Paradiso”, for this year’s edition TIMC will be screening a set of short movies selected and curated by António Vale Conceição. Short Movies 1 - Fragments - Alizée Lafon (5') 2 - Voice Over - Martin Rosete , 2011 (10') 西班牙| Spain 3 - Tarantino's Mind - 300 ml , 2006 (15' ) 巴西| Brazil 4 - Teaser, Ivo Ferreira 2015 (4') 葡萄牙|Portugal 5 - Apricot - Ben Briand , 2009 (11') 6 - Illusions - Samm Hodges, 2012 (6' ) 美國智利 | USA and Chile 7 - ABC of Architects - Andrea Stinga & Federico Gonzalez (2' ) 西班牙| Spain 8 - My Mother's Coat - Marie-Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits ,2010 (6') 9 - I Met The Walrus - Josh Raskin , 2007 (5') 加拿大| Canada

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III – DAY 2 [28th NOV]

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HACHATHON MACAU

(Educational Actions) Around the world cities are increasingly facing challenges regarding areas such as health, traffic, education, or public spaces. Governments and corporations have been mainly working on a top-down approach to solve those problems with different levels of success (and failure) in the past. Macau, our city, is no exception. The Maker Movement is proposing a creative problem-solving approach by the use of technology, creativity, and collaboration to find practical and low-cost solutions to daily life issues. This Hackathon is a one-day event in which programmers, designers, or any citizen willing to make a change, are gathered to collaboratively work on prototyping solutions for specific problems in the city. Each teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s project will propose a possible alternative to make our city a better place to live. Whether you have an idea for a project, or you are an expert, or you simply want to make a difference, join us for this unique experience.

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INSTAMEET MACAU

(Educational Actions) “In just five years, Instagram has become the most popular mobile photo app , now with an impressive 400 million active users. Its aesthetic is seen as one key aspect in the rising of Instagram, most notably its popular palette of image filters: easy to use and with a power to magnify even the most trivial aspect of everyday life! Despite the exponential growth, largely triggered by Facebook's acquisition of Instagram, this unique social media network still retains a significant portion of its early days distinctive aspects. One of which, is its sense of community as a creative platform, where users are encouraged to experiment and share their talent. Instagrammers could be defined as the active and committed users of Instagram that have helped to establish the app's strong sense of community. Unlike other social media, like say Facebook, where friends in real life transfer their friendship to the virtual network in order to keep in touch, users in Instagram, unknown to each other in real life, become friends first in the virtual world, and later out of it, thanks to the so called Instameets. What began as a periodic indication by Instagram's working team quickly became a common practice among some of its users. Instameets are a way for instagrammers not just to personally meet other users they admire and follow on Instagram, but also to collaborate, experiment, and photograph together in a "real life" encounter! This year's edition of THIS IS MY CITY celebrates the unique vision and social interaction of instagrammers, by organizing an INSTAMEET with photographers from Macau, Hong Kong and Mainland China, which together will explore Macau’s urban landscape on November 28th 2015. Having the Macau Design Centre as its starting point, the Instagrammers will then photograph and delve into the uniqueness of the city's northern district, one of the most densely populated areas in the world.” By Gonçalo Magalhães, TIMCity Instameet Curator

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III - DAY 3 [3rd DEC]

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LUSO DESIGN SHOW (Exhibitions) This initiative is a short selection of the best of DESIGN made by designers, brands and factories based in some of the Portuguese speaking countries including Angola, Brazil, Portugal and São Tomé e Principe. The selection aims to showcase a variety of different businesses where DESIGN and creativity are a key factor to add value to a product or a brand. The tools and processes such as: GRAPHIC DESIGN, PRODUCT DESIGN, FURNITURE DESIGN and FASHION DESIGN and BRANDING. A multi-directional approaches on each exhibit, presenting both the result of the DESIGN PROCESS as well as the process it self, a glimpse on what is behind DESIGN. On this show it will be displayed products and works from the following brands and designers: BRANCA-LISBOA by Marco Sousa Santos (Portugal) R2 by Artur Rebelo + Lizá Ramalho (Portugal) Burel Factory (Portugal) Domingos Totora Powered by Touch (Brazil) Nadir Tati (Angola) Claudio Corallo (S. Tomé e Princípe) Futura Clássca (Macau + Portugal)

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IV - DAY 4 [5th DEC]

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FLOATING CABARET SHOW

(Performances) Let us take you for a ride through time and space, never before seen in Macau. Be mesmerized by some unusual characters that will transform the place and take you on a magical journey under the moonlight. A night of music, comedy, dance and surreal acts. As Hunter S.Thompson would say: ''Buy the ticket-take the ride''

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V - DAY 5 [8th DEC]

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CREATIVE ECONOMIES: THINGKING, DEVELOPING, MAKING and INVESTING (Educational Actions) Included on the THIS IS MY CITY 2015- The Creative Festival programme, the ‘TIMC Conference| CREATIVE ECONOMIES: THINKING, DEVELOPING, MAKING, and INVESTING will be the first of a sequence of conferences where a group of local and international, scholars and professionals are invited to discuss the local, and regional realities and challenges, with the aim of finding a set of potential guidelines on the approach towards the development of the creative industries. The event will showcase the testimonies of specific success cases within the local, regional,and international industry. This could be a first-hand learning opportunity for the local community, and might serve as an inspiration, as well as chance to create new partnerships between local and international parties with the aim of promoting commercial and institutional links that could improve the creative industries, taking advantage of the unique regional and historical characteristics of Macau. The conference will be divided in 4 different panels under the following themes: Thinking, Developing, Making, and Investing. Thinking: Experts, scholars and professionals who dedicate their time and studies to the creative phenomenon under different perspectives will compose this panel. Developing: in this panel, representatives from different institutions that contribute to promote, or support in some way, the development of the creative economies through their intervention, will share their experiences, the challenges faced, the opportunities, the successes, and their institution’s visions, with the aim of giving an insiders picture of the so called creative economy ecosystem. Making: Panel composed by referred individuals from different professional backgrounds and disciplines, which develop their work and projects within the creative economy. They will give a first hand testimony of the challenges faced while actuating on this complex ecosystem, the solutions found and a glimpse on the formula for their success. Investing: A panel of individuals or institutions that directly or indirectly invest on projects within the creative ecosystem, or individuals who through their work have to deal with such investors. The intent is to portray this complex relation between investment and creativity, which represent two major propelling economic forces. The panels will count with the presence of speakers from Macau, Hong Kong, China, and Europe. The conference will be moderated by Arch. Marisa Yiu (ESKYIU, HK), and the keynote presentation will be made by Prof. Charles Landry, well known for having written the book ‘The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators’, and founder of the Creative City concept, which has now become a global movement to rethink the planning, development and management of cities.

About Prof. Charles Landry Charles was born in 1948 and studied in Britain, Germany and Italy. In 1978 he founded Comedia, a highly respected globally oriented consultancy working in creativity, culture and urban change. He has completed several hundred assignments for a variety of public and private clients and given key note addresses and workshops in over 55 countries across the continents including: Britain, Australia, Germany, Finland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Brazil, the Netherlands, China, Japan, Korea, India, the UAE, Albania, Croatia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, Ukraine, South Africa, Ecuador, Canada, the USA and Yemen.

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He has written several books including most recently a series of short, illustrated books, including: The Fragile City & the Risk Nexus with Tom Burke; The Sensory Landscape of Cities; The Origins and Futures of the Creative City and Culture & Commerce. He is best known for The Creative City: A toolkit for Urban Innovators (2000); The Art of City Making (2006); and The Intercultural City: Planning for Diversity Advantage with Phil Wood. In Charleslandry.com

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PUBLIC LECTURE and WORKSHOP by VICTOR GAMA (Educational Actions) About Victor Gama â&#x20AC;&#x153;Victor Gama is a composer whose process begins with the creation of an entirely new instrument, one whose design is steeped in symbolic meaning. Concept design, the selection of materials, fabrication, and scoring is all part of the rigorous way Gama creates new music for the 21st century, blending current fabrication technologies with ideas, materials, and traditions inspired by the natural world. "The post-digital world has circled back to the object. The same technology that has dematerialized the object is working to rematerialize it,â&#x20AC;? Gama said in his lecture/demonstration at MIT. "Innovations like 3D printing, digital CAD modeling and Finite Element Analysis have brought the potential to free the instrument from the fixed design paradigm and move beyond pre-sampled digital sound libraries with controller interfaces." In www.victorgama.org, by Ania Ventura, Arts Research Writer at MIT

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VII â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Promotion, Media and Internet

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VIII – Special Thanks The THIS IS MY CITY 2015 – The Creative Festival wouldn’t have been possible, and the success it was, without the precious support and help of the following institutions and their staff. So, as a sign of the Festival’s gratitude, we would like to thank all of our partners, supporters and sponsors for their involvement, and hope we can all work together, once again, on the 2016 to celebrate the 10th edition of the THIS IS MY CITY – The Creative Festival.