Ankara in the Creative Industries Ecosystem: An Assestment on the Problems, Possibilities and Potentials

Abstract

This study, as its mentioned in its title, has aimed to open a discussion on Ankara as a realm of “problems”, “possibilities” and “potentials” in the creative ecosystem. While creative industries have been fascinating a thoughtful attention as a new welfare and employment sources from policy makers and researchers since the late 1990s, it should be said that, the discussions about the transformations of cities into the creative cities have attracted only a few attentions from researchers. From this point; the present article, which is evaluates Ankara in the creative ecosystem, should be considered as a one of the early research in the current literature. In this study, the capital city of Turkey has evaluated in the creative ecosystem. The present study has been divided into three chapters. The first and the second chapters have evaluated reciprocal relations between cultural and creative ecosystem and the creative cities nexus within the global creative city and their transformation into the creative cities. The third chapter has deal directly with Ankara's potential, problems and opportunities in the cultural and creative ecosystem. At the end of the article, the present study offers some alternative cultural policy for Ankara.

Keywords

• Ankara
• Yaratıcı Ekosistem
• Kültür Endüstrileri
• Yaratıcı Kentler
• Bilgi Toplumu