| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 都市計劃研究所 === 103 === When "Creative City" becoming to the new vision of Taipei City, one of the main goals for regenerating Taipei is to attract creative class into Taipei and redeveloped the declined areas. Among this goal, the Red House represent a crucial case, it has been transformed into a cultural creative incubator by the public sector since 2008. This creative incubator was expected to attract and foster the creative workers by which it can become a rising star for Taipei’s creative city project. The Red House has been given with varieties of cultural imaginations from Japanese-Occupied Period to present time. This creative incubator refers to a new 'antidote' to solve the urban problem of unused space. The public sector provides creative workers space, resources and training, hoping the creativity generated by these creative workers is able to bridge the gap between creative workers and neighborhood as well as regenerate the Ximending area. This culture and creativity-led regeneration strategy seems effective and reasonable, but in fact it may imply some problems, such as the creative fix and eradicating the sense of place.
In order to view this case in its local context during this research, there are three main questions as follow：First of all, what kinds of “cultural imagination” has the Red House been derived during its developing progress and how did the Red House transform into a creative incubator? Secondly, becoming a creative incubator as the latest cultural imagination, how will it be construct and practice? What kinds of effect might occur while fostering these creative workers? Thirdly, during the process of operating this strategy, how will it influence the local communities and blocks around Ximending area?
In this study, a qualitative method was applied, including text analysis, field surveys, depth interviews and author’s self-experience. Findings are as follows: First, the public sector has offered different cultural imaginations during the developing progress of the Red House, in order to reinforce the legitimacy of urban governance and attempting to solve questions left by the previous public sector, the Red House has eventually been built to become a vital field of culture demonstration and achievements. Second, the actual practice of nurturing mechanism has bring conflicts and variances to creative worker’s everyday life. Rather than fostering creative workers, the creative incubator were been used to symbol “Taipei is creative”, and has become a tool which intend to promote Cultural Consumption. Third, the Red House seems to be creative and vitality after been incorporated into public sector’s own culture force, yet, there are still problems of lacking communication with local communities. Hence, under this culture and creativity-led regeneration strategy, the Red House has actually become the problem of fragmentation crisis with local lifestyle.
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