Creative City means that creativity should be a strategic factor for urban development. Thus literature, cinema, music, crafts and folk arts, design, media arts, and gastronomy generate urban development. Since 2004 UNESCO has had a network of creative cities to promote the aim of creative city development and enhance the creative, social, and economic potential of the cultural industry owned by local actors in cities around the world to showcase local cultural diversity. The ideology of the creative City is to improve the environment and create an environment with an inspiring atmosphere. Gastronomy is not only about the cuisine but also the culture and history behind it. Based on the local potential, a continuing effort to develop Gastronomic City, one of the factors is the local cuisine which was stated in classical literature, Serat Centhini, made in 1814-1823. It is interesting to explore the process of developing A creative gastronomic city. The analysis process is going through desk study, observations, interviews and FGDs. The results lead to policy recommendations to optimise the aim of developing a Creative City of Gastronomy.
Wido Prananing Tyas is an associate professor at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Engineering – Diponegoro University. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in urban and regional planning (UNDIP), master degrees in Geographical Science Planning, Development Planning Program (University of Queensland), and holds a doctoral degree from the Newcastle University, United Kingdom in School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. Her research focuses on urban management, home bases enterprises, local development, poverty alleviation, housing and settlement, resilience.
Wiwandari Handayani is a professor at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Engineering – Diponegoro University. Some of her appointments: Head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Engineering – Diponegoro University since 2021; Head of Center for Urban and Regional Resilience Research (CURE), Faculty of Engineering – Diponegoro University since 2018. Founding Board Member of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Center – Diponegoro University, Founding Board of Initiative for Urban and Climate Change Environment (IUCCE), Expert, Climate Change – Delivery Unit, New Capital Authority (2022-2023), Deputy of Chief Resilience Officer (CRO), Semarang – Indonesia under the program of Global Resilient Cities Network 2014-2019. Her research focuses on urban and regional resilience, mostly in the context of disaster risk management, climate adaptation, and governance. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in urban and regional planning (UNDIP), master’s degrees in urban and regional planning (ITB) and population studies (ANU-Australia), and holds a doctoral degree from the University of Stuttgart – Germany in Regional Development Planning. She has been actively involved in works related to urban sustainability and resilience since 2011. She was on the team of the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN)-Rockefeller program in Semarang City and performed as M&E coordinator for several projects implemented in 2011-2014. She contributed ideas and insights for promoting a Resilient City in Semarang and some other areas in Indonesia since 2015. Currently, she has been engaging in several networks including GCSMUS focusing on SDG 11 and NUPS focusing on Migration and Climate Change supported by the German government, and awardee of some research grants including KONEKSI from the Australian Government, KOICA-South Korea, and LUCE-USA.