On Friday, November 22, CARADT professor Sebastian Olma was invited as an expert on urban cultural policy to speak at the Senate of Berlin. The occasion was the 40th session of Roundtable on Municipal Real Estate, a unique institution at Berlin’s Senate where real estate and land policy issues are discussed on an equal footing between the administration, politicians and various urban policy initiatives and stakeholders.
Professor Olma spoke in support of a list of demands formulated by the initiative StadtNeudenken
that puts the common good of the city and the wellbeing of its citizens front and centre. Both, the Roundtable on Municipal Real Estate and list of demands are great achievements of Berlin’s civil society and a great inspiration of those who advocate for more democratic and participative forms of city planning elsewhere.
‘Our research group investigates the role artists, designers and cultural producers in general can play in developing the aesthetics and poetics of a desirable future.’
Sebastian Olma is professor Cultural and Creative Industries. He works for the Expertise Centre Art, Design and Technology.
The research group Cultural and Creative Industries investigates the role of artists and designers as creative innovators and drivers of social and economic change. Affiliated researchers analyse the cultural and creative industries from a critical point of view and examine the conditions under which timely forms of aesthetic expression and social connectedness can actually take place within the precarious reality of this field. What economic models are required by artists and designers to create a meaningful practice within the aesthetic, social, and economic intentions of the cultural and creative industries? What skills sets are required for those artists and designers who don’t just want to follow movements, but actually shape novel social and economic models of the future?
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