Creative Park Research Articles

Integrating restoration and interactive exploration to enhance cultural heritage through VR storytelling

Redtory was transformed from an old industrial site into a creative park in Guangzhou. Unfortunately, it was demolished in May 2019. It holds a dual significance, representing both Guangzhou’s old industrial era and its first creative park (Art and Design). The objective of this study was to utilize Virtual Reality (VR) technologies to design an immersive environment with a narrative experience and restore the historical memory of Redtory. The project designs the interactive storytelling tour based on Bartle’s taxonomy theory. The VR project includes four primary scenes to tell the Redtory’s story: Starting Scene, Factory Buildings, Historical Square, and Creative Corridor. The study designs various interactive elements to engage tourists during exploration. The study conducted user tests to evaluate the system. A comparative experiment (N = 40) is conducted to evaluate the overall performance of the VR platform. The results indicate that the platform provides a smooth storytelling experience during the virtual tour with minimal bugs or disruptions. The project provides valuable user data and a design flow as a case study reference to contribute to the field of VR historical education.

Research on the Development and Innovative Management Models of Cultural Creative Parks

Under the backdrop of the knowledge economy and globalization, the cultural creative industry, with its unique innovativeness and high added value, has gradually become a new driving force for economic development. Cultural creative parks, as vital platforms for the development of the cultural industry, have aggregated numerous creative enterprises and talents, becoming significant platforms for urban cultural innovation and cultural exchange. The innovation in development and management models of these parks is crucial for enhancing the competitiveness of the cultural industry and promoting urban cultural prosperity. However, with the rapid development of the cultural creative industry, traditional management models can no longer meet the developmental needs of these parks. Therefore, it is imperative to first clarify the functions of cultural creative parks, analyze the factors influencing their development one by one, base strategies on actual conditions, actively explore development and management models, establish market positioning, build on traditional management philosophies with modern management concepts, and strengthen brand building through resource optimization and integration. Implementing these strategies can effectively enhance the operational efficiency and service quality of cultural creative parks, attract more high-quality enterprises and talents, and promote the sustained and healthy development of the parks.

An Evaluation Study on Tourists’ Environmental Satisfaction after Re-Use of Industrial Heritage Buildings

As a witness to history, industrial heritage embodies the cultural, technological, and economic values of a particular era. Transforming it into a cultural and creative park can imbue new functions and vitality, supporting and promoting sustainable urban development. This paper focuses on the Mili Cultural and Creative Park in Quanzhou as its research subject. Through interviews and questionnaire analyses from the perspective of tourists, five evaluation factors are extracted: spatial environmental elements, social cultural elements, landscape and greening elements, supporting facilities elements, and transportation and location elements. An analysis of tourist satisfaction using the semantic differential method reveals a higher satisfaction with spatial environmental elements, social cultural elements, and landscape and greening elements, while satisfaction with supporting facilities elements and transportation location elements is low. Additionally, the modified IPA method is employed for the analysis, revealing poor overall performance in supporting facilities elements and transportation and location elements. In subsequent efforts, priority should be given to improving the quantity and reasonable distribution of garbage cans, organization of events in the park, traffic conditions outside the park, parking around the park, and park accessibility. The aim is to further optimize the environment after the reuse of industrial heritage, enhance tourist satisfaction, and promote urban sustainability.

Economic value assessment of industrial heritage in Tangshan, China

Industrial heritage is a legacy from the past that we live with today and pass on to future generations. The economic value of this heritage can be defined as the amount of welfare that it generates for society, and this value should not be ignored. However, current research based on economic analysis has mostly focused on qualitative statements instead of quantitative assessment. This study proposes an innovative methodology combining qualitative (field research) and quantitative (willingness to pay and contingent valuation) methods to assess the economic value of industrial heritage. The industrial heritage of Tangshan, China, was chosen as a case study, and the research found that museums and cultural creative parks are effective ways to conserve industrial heritage. The entrance fee can be used to represent the economic value of the heritage site. There was a positive correlation between the influence of economic value and the entrance fees residents would prefer to pay. The results indicate the locals would prefer lower entrance fees for the transformed heritage museums (The average current cost: $2.23). Locals were most concerned about the entrance fees for the Kailuan Coal Mine and Qixin Cement Plant Museums, which have both been renewed as urban landmarks for city tourism. Renewal methods have been applied to six industrial heritage sites in Tangshan; these sites have their own conservation and renewal practices based on city-level development or industrial attributes. Thus, when residents recognize the economic value of a heritage site, they are willing to pay a higher entrance fee. This research demonstrates the economic value of industrial heritage using a mixed methods approach and provides a basis for assessing the value of cultural heritage for urban tourism analysis.

The Human-Centric Predictors of Entrepreneurial Bricolage in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Culture and Creative Parks

Resource-constrained firms rely on entrepreneurial bricolage to enhance innovative performance. In entrepreneurial bricolage, workers are considered intangible resources with which to construct new combinations. This study utilized labor inputs to identify the predictors of entrepreneurial bricolage and analyzed the relationship among the experiential resource-learning experience, human resource endowment, and entrepreneurial bricolage and the mediating role of creative self-efficacy. This study focused on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that have engaged in bricolage activities and presented products in cultural and creative parks. A questionnaire survey and structural equation modeling were used to verify the research framework. Experiential learning was positively associated with human resource endowment and positively influenced entrepreneurial bricolage. Moreover, creative self-efficacy mediated the relationship between human resource endowment and entrepreneurial bricolage. This study recommends that SMEs that intend to implement the bricolage strategy should invest some resources in experiments to gain experiential knowledge from learning workers and thus enhance their human resource endowment. Through such learning, employee confidence in their ability to create may increase. Managers or business owners should redesign work evaluation methods to support experimentation to promote knowledge accumulation. Organizations should create a creativity-friendly workplace to strengthen employees’ belief in their ability to engage in creative work.

Transformation Model and Evaluation of Old Industrial Blocks in Shenzhen: A Case Study of OCT-LOFT

In urban renewal and transformation, the transformation and renewal of old industrial landscapes play a huge role. In the context of post-industrial society, industrial restructuring and industrial layout changes have led to the decline of many traditional industrial bases, which have been reduced to abandoned land and have generated a large amount of industrial wasteland, industrial facilities and industrial buildings and other resources. These resources are called post-industrial heritage and urgently need renewal and transformation. The best way to deal with this industrial heritage is to turn them into art parks and creative parks through various analysis methods. This paper chooses OCT-LOFT as an example to briefly introduce their current situation after the renovation, analyze their reason and pattern of transformation, and discuss the model evaluation. Through a case study of OCT-LOFT in Shenzhen, this paper explores the spatial production process of creative industries under the macro-institutional structure and micro-social network structure. The study finds that the institutional dividend promotes the spatial homogenization of OCT-LOFT, indirectly leading to its becoming a product of spatial reproduction and creating conditions for its heterogeneous spatial production.

Analyses of Sustainable Development of Cultural and Creative Parks: A Pilot Study Based on the Approach of CiteSpace Knowledge Mapping

The rapid expansion of the cultural industry and the escalating demand for innovation have led to a growing attention on the sustainable development of cultural and creative parks. This study aims to provide a comprehensive review and prospectus of the literature on the sustainable development of these parks using CiteSpace knowledge mapping. We analyzed 662 publications from 2012 to 2023 in the Web of Science database using bibliometric methods, such as descriptive statistical analysis, network analysis, and co-citation analysis. Our findings indicate that research hotspots in the sustainable development of cultural and creative parks focus on cultural ecosystems, environmental conservation, cultural landscapes, creative tourism, park management, and urban renewal. Three primary research themes emerged: ecological service systems, assessment models, and multidimensional value. We propose five future prospects: (1) diversifying sustainable development strategies; (2) coordinating development with urban, regional, and global sustainable development goals; (3) enhancing interdisciplinary research; (4) deepening stakeholder participation; and (5) improving the evaluation index system for sustainable development. This study offers a systematic guiding framework for constructing multidimensional value for the sustainable development of cultural and creative parks, providing valuable insights for future theoretical and practical research.

The Social Production of Industrial Heritage Spaces in the Background of Cultural Governance: A Comparative Study Based on Cases from Taipei and Hong Kong

This article borrows Heri Lefebvre’s space production theory to discuss the cultural governance of East Asian cities and how culture is used as a means of spatial organization in a structured way. Text analysis, field investigation, and comparative analysis are used as the main research methods to explore the specific social production process of Taipei’s Songshan Cultural and Creative Park and Hong Kong’s The Mills. The social production processes of these cultural spaces took place in the same period, having some similarities, and they mostly involved transformation from old factories and old buildings in urban areas. However, the cultural governance strategies in Taipei and Hong Kong are different. On the one hand, the Taipei government’s continuous cultural policy has spawned diverse cultural spaces rooted in factory renovations and unified under the authorities’ imagination of “Creative Taiwan”. A benign model of cultural heritage protection has been formed in terms of community participation, industrial development, and ecological conservation in Taipei. On the other hand, Hong Kong’s cultural governance pays more attention to landmark cultural projects from the perspective of tourism development. Mainly driven by private capital, The Mills completed the transformation from a factory to a cultural space. The Mills’ transformation process is also the epitome of the decline of Hong Kong’s textile industry. In addition, different cultural governance strategies and cultural policies in Taipei and Hong Kong affect the dominant forces in the social production process of cultural spaces. The main driving force of cultural spaces in Taipei is the local government, while the production of cultural spaces in Hong Kong involves more stakeholders, such as private developers, non-profit organizations, etc., and presents the characteristics of a multi-path and multi-participant historic building activation process. Moreover, at the regional level, the abandonment and reuse of industrial buildings in Hong Kong and Taipei are rooted in the migration of local traditional manufacturing to mainland China with cheaper labor and the upgrading and transformation of local industries. This comparative study complements the global picture of cultural space production and also provides references for other areas.

The Effect of Destination Brand Identity on Tourism Experience: The Case of the Pier-2 Art Center in Taiwan

This paper examines the tourism destination brand identity and brand experiences which can influence visitors’ intention to recommend. The study of the importance of destination brand identity and brand experiences in the context of Taiwan has shaped some important insights with the potential to enhance the attractiveness of cultural and creative sectors. In this study, this paper explores perceptions of destination brand identity (tourism brand perception and tourism brand self-concept) and brand experiences. The analysis draws upon data collected at the Pier-2 Art Center in Taiwan in 2019, using a self-administrated questionnaire survey. Both confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modeling (SEM) were applied. It has been found that the role of various constructs of a brand perception and a brand self-concept of the tourism brand identity during a visit to cultural and creative parks is on top of the list of concerns associated with visitors’ brand experience. An examination of the research comments concluded that the cultural and creative tourism sector about consumer demands and update the development of appropriate marketing strategies, thereby providing visitors to experience the brand characteristics within the creative arts sector.

The Future of China's Cultural and Creative Parks: Generating Highly Skilled Talent for the Oil Painting Industry

Since the 21st century, the Chinese oil painting industry has been an engine of growth in the global art industry. Its development is both an economic and social phenomenon in market transformation. This research aims to promote the sustainable development of Cultural and Creative Parks by generating a highly skilled workforce in the Chinese Oil Painting Industries. This research uses a literature review to explain the complex relationship between the Chinese Oil Painting Industries and Cultural and Creative Parks. The results of the research would include the role of the Chinese Oil Painting Industries in the evolution of Cultural and Creative Parks and the role of generating a highly skilled workforce for the Chinese Oil Painting Industries in promoting the sustainable development of Cultural and Creative Parks. The results are expected to lead towards recommending a format for generating a highly skilled workforce for Cultural and Creative Parks with the Chinese Oil Painting Industries at its core. Furthermore, this research will suggest a theory for generating a highly skilled workforce in the Chinese Oil Painting Industry that promotes sustainable development of Cultural and Creative Parks. This article attempts to review and evaluate the achievements of China's cultural and creative industries in the past 20 years from three perspectives: the current situation of the Chinese oil painting industry, the approach to cultivating a highly skilled workforce, and the development path of Cultural and Creative Parks. It is expected to provide a reference for later scholars to conduct related research.

Production of creative spaces

As an emerging global city, Shanghai has experienced significant growth in its creative economy over the past two decades. By reconstructing a large number of old constructions into creative industry clusters, Shanghai has attracted a significant number of creative talents from across the globe. Informed by the theoretical discourse on the social network- based understanding of the production of creative spaces, this paper engages in a semi-structured interview analysis to shed light on the formation mechanism of place-anchored networks in Shanghai’s design industries. Creative spaces for the design industry in Shanghai are largely concentrated in inner-city areas and consist of six functional types: design enterprises or studios, arts and creative parks, educational institutions, exhibition centres, social networking spaces, and cultural and business areas. These multi-layered creative spaces are formed through intensive social interactions, knowledge spillovers, and functional complementation among creative designers and institutions. Finally, the implications of place-anchored networks for creative industries are discussed within the context of the planning and design of creative cities.

Planning Development of Creative Park in JungleFest Bogor

A lot of people who need a short escape with full experience make a theme park always wanted to visit. Located in Bogor city, nearby the capital city of Indonesia makes Junglefest is one of the urban destinations to be visited. In order to increase the number of visitors, they planned to add more attractions inside their territory, and will be called “Creative Park”. This paper is giving a short review regarding the planning development of this Creative Park in a form of a theme park. Starting with mapping the potential analysis, planning steps, development steps, and evaluating steps by looking into the impact arising from the activities done in the park

UPAYA MENINGKATKAN KESEJAHTERAAN MASYARAKAT MELALUI PROGRAM PENGEMBANGAN WISATA TAMAN KREATIF DI KELURAHAN PIPITAN KECAMATAN WALANTAKA KOTA SERANG

Tourism development is currently aimed at sustainable tourism development with development based on the principle of community-based empowerment. One of the villages that developed with these principles is Pipitan Village. Pipitan Creative Park is a new tourist attraction in Kota Serang that has many tourist destinations. Pipitan Creative Park tourism has resources that are abundant enough that it has considerable tourist potential to be developed as a tourist attraction. This place when considered more than potential can be developed as a charming beauty makes tourists more comfortable. In this case, the program implemented is to further develop the Pipitan Creative Park of Walalantaka Subdistrict. In tourism management, there are several aspects of planning, management, supervision and evaluation. But in its implementation, not optimal for this reason, the management of tourism awareness groups (Pokdarwis) is necessary. Human Resource Development, Friendly local population and Artisan community training. These methods are used to improve the economy of the community by organizing events involving the community around tourist attractions, maintenance of garbage tubs and cooperation programs with third parties. The positive impact on Creative Park attractions is the opening of jobs, increasing community income, the use of tourist facilities in the local community.

Experiential Value of Exhibition in the Cultural and Creative Park: Antecedents and Effects on CCP Experiential Value and Behavior Intentions

The protection of industrial cultural heritage is related to sustainable urban development. Cultural and creative parks (CCPs) are a way for many cities to protect their industrial cultural heritage. In the context of CCPs, this study examines the relationships among the antecedents of exhibition experiential value, CCP experiential value, and behavioral intentions. Surveying 428 visitors in two well-known CCPs in Taipei, this study found that the four antecedents (attractiveness, existential authenticity, self-congruence, and exhibition–park image congruence) have a positive impact on exhibition experiential value. Exhibition experiential value has a positive impact on CCP experiential value, which in turn, affects behavioral intentions toward the CCP. In addition, this study finds that exhibition experiential value has a mediating effect between the four antecedents and CCP experiential value. Moreover, CCP experiential value has a mediating effect between exhibition experiential value and behavioral intentions. The findings of this study provide a direction for CCPs to achieve sustainable development through exhibitions that can attract more tourists.

Social Networks Marketing in COVID-19 Epidemic Storm-A Case Study from Cultural and Creative Parks in Middle Taiwan

In order to attract more consumers, cultural and creative parks in Taiwan has launched new media marketing methods in recent years, hoping to attract more tourists. Starting in 2020, in the global COVID-19 epidemic storm, cultural and creative parks had tried so hard to keep customers’ concern. So they have strengthened the social networks links to social media. This study used group networks connection and qualitative methods, such as in-depth interview. Try to understand cultural and creative industries business promotion methods and effects.The results of this study found that starting from social networks is an important way to attract crowds, but there must be three supporting methods. 1) The function of social networks must be communicated with community groups to be effective. 2) Each marketing promotion must have certain issues before it can exert influence. 3) The characteristics of the topic must be combined with the local particularity.

The Application of Public Art in Commercial Space Design: Take the Taoxichuan Ceramic Culture Creative Park Project as an Example

In the economic era of the heat wave, China's major commercial complex is in urgent need of industrial upgrading and transformation, through excellent commercial space design to promote the survival and development of the industry is the direction of the majority of space design practitioners.This article around the theme of public art used in the design of commercial space, through the Taoxichuan ceramic culture creative garden project in-depth analysis and research, discusses the value and role of Taoxichuan commercial space of public art, to let the general practitioners combining theory and practice of space design, and use your imagination and creative ability, makes the essence of public art can be widely used in the environmental space design.

Sustainable Shopping Mall Rehabilitation

In the era of globalization, increasing the nation’s industrial competitiveness, production value, and competitiveness is a challenge for every country. Therefore, Taiwan must strive for innovation, increase the added value of its products, and enhance industrial competitiveness. This promotes Taiwan’s survival under competition engendered by globalization. The study identified public places that influence consumer opinions of shopping malls to examine the intentionality of the relationship between people and shopping malls. Taiwan has many historical cultural parks that have been reduced to idle spaces. This research will enable historical creative parks. Through DAHP’s research methods, this research will determine the key factors in the public space of cultural shopping centers. Moreover, the study examined key factors that create a sense of culture in public space design. The relationship between the general public and shopping malls has various internationalities.

Research on VFM quantitative evaluation of PPP project based on fuzzy real option method

Value-for-money evaluation can provide decision-making basis for the selection of public project implementation mode. As far as the current situation is concerned, there is a great controversy in the quantitative evaluation of value for money. This paper attempts to explore the option value ignored in the evaluation process of PPP projects by using the concept of triangular fuzzy number in real option B-S model and combining with the traditional quantitative evaluation model. Taking a tourism creative park project as an example, the uncertainty value range is calculated without completely deviating from the existing evaluation system, so as to provide a more comprehensive perspective for the quantitative evaluation of value for money.

The Hartford Hub’s Creative Park: A Reflection on EPICS and the Importance of Community

In this project, the team aspires to build a Creative Park next to the Hartford Hub, a neighborhood community center that serves the people of the Lincoln Neighborhood in Lafayette. In this reflective essay, the author discusses the impact of this EPICS project on both the community and on himself, as the NS team seeks to establish both a staple for the Hartford Hub and a birthplace for the children’s memories through the creation of the Creative Park.

Retrospective Analysis of Participatory Decision-Making in a Park's Construction in Lafayette, Indiana

The Creative Park project has been an ongoing collaboration between Purdue Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS), Faith Community Development Corporation, and the residents of Lincoln Neighborhood in Lafayette, Indiana. It was initiated by Faith in 2017 as an open-ended attempt to increase local children’s interactions with creative and complex thinking as well as decreasing time spent indoors at the Hartford Hub. Through several iterations of designs, an interdisciplinary team with one consistent member has developed a plan to build a treehouse-themed park to be constructed in spring 2020. Throughout this time two major themes have arisen: that the collaboration with Lincoln residents is both complex and important to maintain the nature of the project, and the park project has connections to feelings of inequality, stagnation, and colonization for the neighborhood that are underdiscussed. Almost all interactions between EPICS and Lincoln residents is facilitated through a neighborhood meeting group that was resurrected in fall 2016, a semester before the project began. This limits the scope of discussion of the project as only regular attendees can participate and is likely to skew perceived opinion because of the demographic differences between the neighborhood and meeting group. Lincoln is considered one of the poorest neighborhoods in Lafayette as well as being predominately black compared to adjacent neighborhoods. Discussions in the meeting group acknowledge lack of income growth compared to Wabash neighborhood, continued neglect by the City of Lafayette, and decisions by powerful forces resulting in maintenance of the status quo. The Creative Park itself hopes to provide an asset to the community according to their desires without requiring investment of funds by residents. Whether this primary goal will be a success is yet to be determined, but the relationship between EPICS and the community has already been cemented over the last four years.