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The round-up: thanks for showing us your cities!
Explore 12 outstanding entries in our Show Us Your City competition, as creatives and urban thinkers guide us through great creative cities around the region.
What makes a great creative city?
For several years, Charles Landry has asked people to describe the qualities of the great creative places to live in and to visit. What three words would you use to describe the creative city?
When: April 2008
Where: Kuala Lumpur
D-Fuse worked with 4 local artists (VJ, 1 animator, 1 film-maker, 1 sound artist) over 6 days to create audiovisual impressions of the city – “Endless Cities”, which was then performed live with the local sound artist at Zouk Club KL on 5 April to over 200 audience members.
“Graphic Cities” was […]
This project examines the idea of heritage and contemporary urban life and will explore practical solutions for the development of George Town as a creative heritage city.
Helping Malaysian writers tell the stories of their lives in their city, UK writers Jeremy Sheldon and Sarah Butler were in Kuala Lumpur for two weeks, running workshops for over 200 aspiring and advanced writers.
April 2008 saw a major meeting of figures from the UK and Singapore film industries to explore issues around the representations of our respective cities on film.
In March 2009, British Council Korea signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Gongju city, the aim being to help Gongju with its plans to become a vibrant centre of culture and the arts.
Roppongi Hills, a major shopping, entertainment and business complex, was transformed into an open air art space through Contact, a responsive floor-based installation allowing visitors to use their kinetic energy to generate audiovisual forms that interact with the user and communicate with each other.



