Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 27th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview Panel: Cultural Policy and Creativity for Smart Development Author(s) Zuzana Révészová Technical University of Kosice Košice Slovakia Title Co-creation and the Commons in Culture-led Urban Development File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Zuzana Révészová Abstract Culture and creativity offer new perspectives for urban communication and decision making in municipal local governments. This paper presents a preliminary state of play in the mind map of commoning and commons transition in the city of Košice. It is discussing the commons philosophy with the specific focus on urban commons, cultural commons and digital commons. The examples of L’Asilo and Naples are brought as case studies to visualize the recent applications of commons on municipal level. The case of Košice is described from the position of a researcher and a project manager, implying the convoking method that suggest the formulation of research questions together with the field representatives and stakeholders. Common pool resources, therefore, the goods that are commonly taken care of, and generating for everybody, have natural (material) and immaterial forms. The digitalization and growth in technology enable the immaterial commons to become a serious intellectual challenge in understanding their potential impact and use. The demands for democratising policies call for inclusive negotiations with all involved stakeholders. Applying the perspective of commons and co-creation on digital and innovation hubs in culturally affluent city of Košice helps us understand the chain of demands for economic and political development in the regional growth in terms of employment, infrastructure and finance. However, applying the commons methodology and convoking dialogue has pointed to some serious misrepresentation of social sphere and citizens’ perspective in cultural planning, that took creative business from market level only. Sustaining the urban commons in Košice means also giving the re-generative power to culture, allowing the initial philosophy of the European Capital of Culture follow its central theme of post-industrial regeneration and enable different kinds of relationship to reign in the cultural sphere. The planning of the strategy for culture in the following period should, therefore, enable the participants to raise their voice and formulate the vision together. The implementation would also need to reconsider the managerial approach in local municipality, to be able to take the voices of the participants actively and listen to the advice before taking serious decisions.
