Production of Space of OCT-LOFT in Shenzhen City

‘Production of space’ has been an interdisciplinary and comprehensive framework on researching social-spatial problems, which means a lot to analyze the urban construction under market economy in China. However, the application of ‘production of space’ in China mainly focuses on the effect on the capital flow pursuing standardized homogenizing space. Through the case study of OCT-LOFT in Shenzhen, the combined effect of macro institutional and micro social network structures to the production of creative industries space is discussed in this paper, expressing a space producing process of the space homogenization turning to heterogenization. With positive policies, OCT-LOFT expresses the space heterogenization among the other homogenizing spaces by the full use of local space and the enriching of social network space, such as perfecting function, enriching configuration, broadening market and brand promotion. Merely space homogenization brings crisis to social, cultural and other space, such as duplicated construction, disappearance of the urban identity and so on. This research indicates that, for the production of space, we must attach importance to balance space homogenization and heterogenization.