ZIXI QINGLIANGSHAN LUCITOPIA TOWN DEV. CO., LTD.
Located on Zhuxi Forest Farm, Zixi County, Fuchou City, Jiangxi Province, Lucitopia Town has within it Qingliangshan National Forest Park and several rural villages. Surrounded by mountains and rivers with ecological superiority, pleasant environment and honest people, it holds its basic identity as a “Creative industry featured town”, which aims to create a livable town characterized by ecological civilization and creative industry. Under the premise of protecting the natural environment strictly, spatial planning, industry planning, community planning, content planning and experience planning are integrated. On the basis of complying with the original ecology, it gradually promotes the recovery and upgrading of rural community vitality in a scientific and orderly manner. Lucitopia Town fully explores the characteristic and advantages of its local natural environment, humanity and lifestyle, blends various industries with innovative development, thus constructing a model of creative town with a composite format that combines green industry, livable ecology, cultural tourism, recreation, recuperation and community services.
CO-ORGANIZERS
XIAMEN MEXDIA CREATIVITY & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Xiamen Mexdia Creativity & Technology Co., Ltd. brings an inquisitive and open spirit which by explorations at the intersection of art, design and technology and by stimulation of this creative core, discover both infinite potentials and the enormous value brought about by crossover innovations.
Xiamen Mexdia Creativity & Technology Co., Ltd. possesses quality art and creative resources, an international planning and design team and outstanding development capabilities of hardware and software. MEXDIA Lab. and C-PLATFORM are subsidiary bodies of the company and are responsible for inter-media creative design projects, research and the planning of cultural and art activities.
C-PLATFORM
C-PLATFORM is a non-profit culture and art research and curatorial organization located in Xiamen, China. The organization works at the intersection of Art, Design and Technology, focusing on current trends and future concepts in the realm of mixed media. In addition to periodical research subjects and issues it has conducted a series of explorations and related practices. This has been achieved by launching and curating comprehensive research projects and activities which are inter-disciplinary, inter-media and inter-sensory. It attempts to establish an interactive exchange platform that continuously releases creative energy and cultural transformation across the boundaries of content production and communication, public awareness and experience.
CREATIVE COOPERATIVE (FR/NL)
The Creative Cooperative believes in the power of people to build their own future through collaboration across diverse disciplines, expertise and experience. Digital media provide the tools to help envision, design, and mould that future.In this context, the Creative Cooperative facilitates the creation and design of innovative concepts for the application of digital media in such areas as urban regeneration and future development, citizen engagement, social and cultural inclusion, education and health. The Creative Cooperative works with government agencies, creative industry clusters, SMEs, large corporations, knowledge and cultural institutes and professional associations across Europe.The Creative Cooperative was founded in 2009 by Andrew Bullen (France) and Janine Huizenga (The Netherlands).