Next on FilmEU Talks - Experts on-Air 22nd March
Film, just like many other art forms, is often a triumph of hope over reality, where defeat can easily be snatched from the jaws of victory. Film is a creative process that calls for endurance, curiosity and a lot of work! For all of us, the creative process has magical, even mystical elements we cannot often understand or explain. But notwithstanding, Film is also a business, affected like any other by basic economic principles and numerous contextual and market factors. And Film is also a technology, an element of innovation and transformation in the way we tell stories and use sound and images to transform our societies. Film and all media Art forms require specific knowledge, competences and experience. With FilmEU Talks - Experts on-Air we want to create a proper environment for knowledge and experience sharing between the academic community and experts in different domains. No topic is too big, no expert is too big!
Every Tuesday at 1pm CET starting the 22nd of February, we give the floor to the experts! In a rotating format between all FilmEU schools, a short intensive talk streamed to the world. A moment to talk with experts in our field, discuss current issues that concern you and many others.
FilmEU espouses a world view that is progressive and inclusive. Society is informed and shaped by the stories we tell and how we tell them. All the partners in FilmEU-EI come from diverse cultural backgrounds and yet we share the language of film and storytelling and radical creativity, a term we use when referring to creativity’s ability to impact different sectors across societies and craft profound needed transformations. Though we are grounded in the visual arts, our different approaches and cultures are our strength. It encourages us to ensure, through the arts and media, that all voices are treasured and heard. Indeed, this is something that is vital where new technologies are being developed. We need to ensure that new forms of storytelling are not the preserve of any one cultural block. This is not to say that we have a narrow world view – quite the opposite – FilmEU celebrates diversity and openness.
FilmEU Talks – Experts on-Air is a new initiative aiming at reinforcing this diversity and openness by inviting experts in different domains of film and the media arts to present and discuss with us their achievements and experiences and the lessons they entail. FilmEU Talks - Experts on-Air will reinforce our ability to connect to society and others, nor more importantly it will foster the ideals of collaboration and mutual reinforcement that shape FilmEU. Let the talks begin!
Governing the night-time city: The rise of night mayors - 22nd March 13h CET
As one of the first night mayors in the world, Mirik Milan has played an instrumental role in the reshaping of Amsterdam’s nightlife scene into one of the most vibrant and economically robust in the world, and his innovative position is been replicated in major cities around the world, like New York, Paris and London.
Nowadays Mirik Milan is a nightlife consultant, co-founder of VibeLab and author of the paper ‘Governing the night-time city: The rise of night mayors as a new form of urban governance after dark’. In January 2020 the journal Urban Studies released this first qualitative study on night mayors around the world. To date 65 cities installed a similar position in their cities in the recent years.
VibeLab is a purpose drive consultancy agency, developing strategies and trailblazing a largely untapped research field: life at night. In 2017 VibeLab launched a research methodology named Creative Footprint (CFP) for measuring creativity in cities at night.
The CFP is a data drive initiative that maps and indexes creative space to measure the impact of nightlife and cultural activity on cities globally. The methodology goes beyond economic impact, prioritizing original content, interdisciplinary connections, and cross-functional spaces for thriving local scenes. CFP empowers grassroots movements that fuel innovations for the creative and cultural industries. The study benchmarks cities to better understand the health and mechanisms behind successful creative places. CFP was conducted data mappings of Berlin, New York, Tokyo and Stockholm is forthcoming.
In 2020 VibeLab launched an online hub of international knowledge exchange, for anyone interested in the planning and protection of life after dark named: Nightime.org.
The event is free, but registration is mandatory. Link here.
