Thursday, 11th November 2010

09:00 - 09:45:    Registration and Reception

09:45 - 10:00:    Welcoming Speeches

Prof. Ruhi Ayangil, Dean, Arts and Design Faculty of YTU

Şekib AVDAGİÇ, Chairman of İstanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency Executive Board

Prof. Dr. İsmail YÜKSEK, Rector Yıldız Technical University

10:00 - 10:30:    Opening Speeches

Dr. Supachai PANITCHPAKDI, UNCTAD General Secretary

Hayati YAZICI, The Minister of State

10:30 - 10:30:    Break

10:45 - 12:30:   Session 1

CREATIVE CITIES AND INDUSTRIES: Vision and Challenges

In this session, Edna dos Santos, the chairman of Creative Industries department of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Organisation (UNCTAD) and Charles LANDRY, founder of the concept of creative cities and İsmail ERTURK, from Manchester University, expert of Cultural Economy and Finance, will explain the concepts of "creative city" and "creative industries", with examples from the world of cities and countries in the development of creative activity and discuss the future of the economy and draw a frame for topics that are covered in the symposium.

Chairperson: Prof. Ruhi AYANGİL, Dean, Arts and Design Faculty of YTU

Speakers:   

Edna Dos Santos DUISENBERG, Chief, UNCTAD Creative Economy and Industries Programme

İsmail ERTÜRK, Manchester University, Senior Lecturer in Banking

Charles LANDRY, Director of Comedia, UK

12:30 - 13:30:    Lunch at YTU Roof Restaurant

13:30 - 14:45:   Session 2

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON CREATIVE CITIES

In this session, the cities which have developed and practiced the Creative city strategies will be examined by the questions; what they understand from the concept of "creative city", why they adopt this strategy, what the cities gained from this strategy. UNESCO has constituted a "creative cities" network in the world, some cities like Istanbul, has competed and still competes to be the "cultural capital", some world cities aim to be a global design capital, etc. Here, the development and competitiveness of global cities in terms of the concept of creative cities will be discussed.

Chairperson : Dr. Seza SİNANLAR USLU, Lecturer, Arts and Design Faculty, YTU

Speakers:   

Max van ENGEN, Head of the Department for Arts and Culture of the City of Amsterdam

Dr. Jin PAN, Deputy Secretary General Shanghai, Creative Industry Center

Dr. Asım GÜZELBEY, Mayor of Gaziantep Municipality

14:45 - 15:00:    Break

15:00 - 16:15:    Session 3

CREATIVE INDUSTRIES AS NATIONAL AND URBAN ECONOMIC GROWTH MODEL-1

Creative industries became an important political instrument in city development, job creation and global competition between cities. Leading countries and local governments are making serious attempts in the context of creative industries. In these two sessions, experts from USA, Asia, Europe and Turkey, will explain the role of creative industries in city development through real cases.

Chairperson: Ass. Prof. Dr. Sedat AYBAR, Kadir Has University

Speakers:

Desmond HUI, Director of Centre for Culture and Development, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Beth SIEGEL, President, Mt Auburn Associates, USA

Aziz YENİAY, Mayor of İstanbul Küçükçekmece Municipality

Friday, 12th November 2010

09:00 - 10:15    Session 4

CREATIVE INDUSTRIES AS NATIONAL AND URBAN ECONOMIC GROWTH MODEL-2

Creative industries became an important political instrument in city development, job creation and global competition between cities. Leading countries and local governments are making serious attempts in the context of creative industries. In these two sessions, experts from USA, Asia, Europe and Turkey, will explain the role of creative industries in city development through real cases.

Chairperson: Füsun GENÇSÜ, Founding Partner of UltraRPM

Speakers:

John HOWKINS, Head of Howkins&Associates

Dimiter GANTCHEV, Head of Creative Industries in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva

Hüseyin Uran TİRYAKİOGLU, Member of istanbul Chamber of Industry

10:15 - 10:30:    Break

10:30 - 11:45:    Session 5

CREATIVE  INDUSTRIES AND ENTREPRENEURS – Case study

The function of entrepreneurs has always been taken seriously for economic development and growth. In the 21th century, as the city development models became highly dependant on creative industries, educating and supporting the entrepreneurs, who establishes and manages the creative industries turned out to be vital. Facebook and Apple are companies which operate in creative industries. It is becoming an economic policy that enhancing the skills and qualifications of entrepreneurs who establish creative industries and increasing the number of entrepreneurs, creating synergy with other industries. In this session, success stories from entrepreneurs who accomplished in various industry branches in different countries in creative industries will be told.

Chairperson: Yeşim YALMAN, Director of Urban Culture Dep., İstanbul 2010 ECOC Agency

Speakers:  

Alnoor MITHA, Director of Shisha, Manchester

Aslı KIYAK İNGİN, Architect, Design Director

Beate BECKER, Envoy of Auburn Associates, Somerville, USA

Arhan KAYAR, Architect, Founding Partner of DDF

11:45 - 13:30:    Lunch at YTU Roof Restaurant

13:30 - 14:45:    Session 6

THE ROLE OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES IN RANKING GLOBAL CITIES

The size of creative industries and creative activity is playing an important role for the competition for global cities to attract investment and tourists. As a result, the demand for lists which rank global cities in a competitive manner has increased. In this session, three international institutions which have developed this type of rating and ranking index -Comedia, Creative Cities Organisation and the World Cities Centre - will be argued by describing the variables used in this index. Also the rank of Istanbul in such comparative indices will be discussed.

Chairperson: Zeynep GÖĞÜŞ, Journalist

Speakers:   

Dr. Linda LEES, Creative Cities International, LLC.

Oli MOULD, Member of Globalization and World Cities Centre, Loughborough University

Charles LANDRY, Director of Comedia, UK

Fikret TOKSÖZ, Adviser of İstanbul 2010 ECOC Agency&TESEV Good Governance Program

14:45 - 15:00:    Break

15:00 - 16:50:    Concluding Session

ROUND TABLE FOR ISTANBUL: From Capital of Culture to Global Creative City

During the Round Table, after the six sessions of the symposium, the contribution of "creative city" and "creative industries" to Istanbul's economic growth will be taken in a wide range of aspects. Also the needs for taking Istanbul to a higher place in this ranking after the title "European Culture Capital" will be discussed. Before the symposium, the round table participants will be gathered in order to discuss the aims of the round table. After the discussion, the suggestions of the participants will be evaluated and the round table will be done within the framework of these questions and matters. Also, during the round table, the ideas and suggestions for founding an "International Creative Cities and Industries Research Institute" will be developed.

Moderators:    

İsmail ERTÜRK & Charles LANDRY

Participants:

Şekib AVDAGİÇ, Chairman of İstanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency Executive Board

Prof. Ruhi AYANGİL, Dean, Arts and Design Faculty, YTU

Nevzat BAYHAN, General Manager of Cultural Affairs of Istanbul Municipality

Hüsamettin KAVİ, Chairman of Advisory Board for İstanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency

C.Tanıl KÜÇÜK, Chairman of the Board, İstanbul Chamber of Industry

Esra Nilgün MİRZE, İstanbul 2010 ECOC Agency Foreign Relation Director

Yiğit ŞARDAN, Chairman of Advertising Agencies

Agâh UĞUR, CEO, Borusan Holding

Gündüz VASSAF, Psychologist, Author

16:50 - 17:00:    Break

17:00 - 17:20:    Concluding Remarks

İsmail ERTÜRK, Manchester University, Senior Lecturer in Banking