In March 2010 CURL partnered up with Artscape and The Firehouse to produce a series of 8 videos from the Creative Places & Spaces conference which took place on October 29-20, 2009 in Toronto . We hope that these video will spark some discussion about the idea of a creative and collaborative city.

This video highlights the unique challenges of the NFB’s pilot project Filmmaker-in-Residence. Katerina Cizek, is Filmmaker-in-Residence at St. Michael`s hospital, working with partners on the frontline: doctors, nurses, researchers and patients. From local projects at the Inner City Health Unit, to global ones, FIR partners media with medicine in innovative ways.

What happens when a hospital and a filmmaker collaborate with homeless youth, medical staff, police officers and cyclists?

This video highlights Richard Florida’s keynote presentation at Creative Places + Spaces. The Professor of Business and Creativity at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management discusses the collaborative city in relation to the global shifts in our work, our values and our communities that are shaping the economies of the 21st century.

This video focuses on artist, environmental activist, and founder of Cape Farewell, David Buckland’s keynote presentation on The Art of Climate Change. David explores what happens when artists collaborate with scientists and educators in response to global warming.

This video focuses on the Open-Access Science panel, where Aled Edwards, Pekka Sinervo, Ilse Treunicht discuss the challenges of collaborating in the public domain and how new ground rules for generating and sharing knowledge are aiding scientific innovation.

Creative Places & Spaces Campaign of Ideas
This first segment highlights Sir Ken Robinson’s roof-raising keynote presentation.

A documentary film
Written by Mars Horodyski & Peer Zumbansen
Directed by Mars Horodyski

5 minute spotlight created for the Creative Places & Spaces conference by CURL.

In March 2010 CURL partnered up with Artscape and The Firehouse to produce a series of 8 videos from the Creative Places & Spaces conference which took place on October 29-20, 2009 in Toronto . We hope that these video will spark some discussion about the idea of a creative and collaborative city.

This video highlights Charles’ keynote presentation at Creative Places + Spaces where he underlines how innovating bureaucracy is the challenge for everyone to turn their cities into great places. Landry believes that if we can make government more creative and more collaborative, we make our communities better.