Events

This seminar has been cancelled.

CHAIRPERSON

Prof Mike Douglass, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

ABSTRACT

For many policy makers as well as researchers in Asia, Huashan 1914 and Songshan Cultural Park became show cases in Taipei for creative industry. Both of them used to be important industrial sites since the colonial period of time, and then declined due to the urban and economic changes after 1990s. Citizen groups played key role in early time for preserving the two massive sites within the city center. However their re-use programs have been increasingly shaped by the government within problematical defined concept of ‘cultural industry’ and led to cultural consumption.

By examining Huashan 1914 and Songshan Cultural Park, my talk will analyze the birth and business model of cultural creative parks in Taipei, and how they influence on urban life and cultural imagination.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Huang Liling is an Associate Professor of Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University. Her research interests focus on urban regeneration, housing policy, and globalization theories for cities. Her major publications include “Promoting Private Interest by Public Hands? The Gentrification of Public Lands by Housing Policy in Taipei City,” in Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement, edited by Loretta Lees, Hyun Ban Shin and Ernesto Lopez-Morales, 2015, ‘From Cultural Building, Economic Revitalization to Local Partnership? The Changing Nature of Community Mobilization in Taiwan’ (International Planning Studies, 2011).

Huang Liling is also the former director of Organization of Urban Reformers (OURs), an NGO founded in the early 1990s in the wave of urban social movement in Taiwan. It focuses on monitoring and promoting the urban policies of environmental conservation, cultural preservation and community participations in Taiwan. Since 2010, OURs has been working with other social welfare groups in Taiwan as well as its Japanese and Korean partner organizations in East Asia Inclusive City Network for actions of safeguarding housing right for the disadvantageous groups. The movement has successfully pushed the government to inaugurate public housing at the local and central government level.

REGISTRATION

Admission is free. We would greatly appreciate if you click on the “Register” button above to RSVP.