Monthly Archives November 2007

Taiwan Band Festival (a creative agenda?)

On Sunday, Nov. 25, I went to the first Taiwan Band Festival held in Huashan Cultural Park. It was drizzling lightly but overall it was possible to enjoy the event without umbrellas, which was what most people did. I ran into Tunghung and several old friends. He could probably provide more context to the logic [...]

Singaporean bureaucracy trying hard to promote creativity

I noticed that Eva and HJ were discussing the concept of creativity in the East Asian context. How about this? Singaporean bureaucracy is trying very hard to promote the creative city state.
Recently I am thinking over the notion of creativity and its policies in Korea too. Still very confused, but I am thinking what might [...]

Conferencing at Minshung (Taiwan) and Drinking at Taipei (Underground Society)

Last week I had been in Taiwan for particpating a conference about “digital culture.”  The conference venue was at National Chungcheng University at Minshung, a small city in Southern Taiwan. Among members of our group, Yoshitaka was there as “keyote speaker,” Eva as moderator/interpretator and Miao-ju as one of the hosts of the conference.
On Novermber 15, one [...]