藝術和創造力教育,在Florida(2002,2005,2009)和Landry(2000)創意階級和創意城市論述倡議下,躍升為培養創意人才、形塑創意氛圍和提升區域競爭力的萬靈丹。本文以臺北市都市更新處設置在迪化街的都市再生前進基地(URS)為例,探討進駐URS的文創工作者所傳遞之藝術和創造力教育對形塑迪化街為創意街區的影響,尤其關照是誰推動和介入迪化街URS的藝術和創造力教育相關的政策論述?以及是什麼形式的文化美學和生活品味,透過URS的文創工作者植入迪化街區?最後則是URS所推動的是誰的都市活化與再生?本文將藉由經驗研究的田野資料與西方論述交織對話,討論藝術和創造力教育之影響層面如何擴及至臺北市都市發展策略,並指出其潛在的危機和陷阱。
According to Florida (2002, 2005, 2009) and Landry (2000) art and creative education can be employed as a panacea for fostering creative talent, shaping creative milieus, and promoting local competitive advantage. This paper uses the example of UrbanRegeneration Stations (URS) set up by the Taipei City Urban Regeneration Office at Dihua Street (West Central Taipei City), in order to foster art and creative education with the goal of transforming Dihua Street into a creative neighborhood. Using empirical data gathered between 2012 and 2014 routed through Zukin's discourse on "Whose culture? Whose city?" this paper demonstrates how creative practitioners in the URS employ art and creative education to shape Dihua Street as a creative neighbourhood. In particular it focuses on who is involved in policy making, and creating dominant policy discourse; and whose cultural aesthetics, lifestyle, and taste is being fore-grounded in the re-making of Dihua Street? The paper concludes by highlighting some possible dangers and limitations of such an approach.