Formation of a creative space in a modern city

Abstract

The article considers an issue of the formation and embedding of the newest spaces (in particular, creative ones) into the urban landscape, the formation of which became both a consequence and a condition for the formation of a post-industrial society in the digital economy, which is actively discussed not only among foreign researchers, but also in the Russian humanitarian discourse. The emergence of such spaces updated the themes of using the creative potential of people in the formation or conversion of urban sites, revitalizing abandoned industrial areas, choosing a place to live, ways of spending the leisure time and much more. Creative spaces have become objects for the realization of human needs in the newest conditions of our time due to their key property – the use of the individual creativity of the site users. The article presents the results of a number of qualitative studies conducted from 2018 to 2020, including: content analysis “Creative space in Russian and Western practice”, expert interviews “Formation of creative spaces in modern Moscow through the eyes of experts”, and social mapping “Map of art-clusters of Moscow”, which made it possible to describe the hierarchy of creative spaces, the general algorithm for their formation, the conditions for the long-term existence of such clusters, as well as the peculiarities of their appearance on the map of Moscow.