The ”Urban Management and cultural policy of city”Thematic Area hold the 4th Annual Meeting during the 19th ENCATC Annual Conference in Helsinki on October 13, 2011.
The presentations by the key speakers Annick Schramme and Katriina Soini are available in the section “OUTCOMES“
The Kreanta Foundation and “CentroCentro” of the City Council of Madrid are organizing the Fourth International Conference on Creative Cities, a three day event for professionals to discuss about creativity, innovation and culture in cities, on 24, 25 and 26 November 2011 in Madrid.
The main theme of the conference is ‘Cultural Impact on the Territory and the Economy of Cities’.
AIMS
To bring together people who work in cultural industries, urban planning and economic promotion to exchange ideas and good practices on cultural action at the local level.
To discuss the impact and relationship between cultural and creative industries, territory, economy and city competitiveness.
To boost development of creativity and innovation in the local agenda of culture.
THEMATIC AREAS
Speakers come from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. You can find their names and the description of the sessions in the brochure of the conference.
PARTICIPANTS
The conference is aimed at people who work in cultural management in the public and private sectors as well as non-profit organizations. It is also open to professionals whose work is related to cultural development in cities, both in terms of urban planning and economic promotion. Finally, the Conference is addressed to researchers and academics who specialize in local cultural, territorial and economic policies.
The conference working language will be Spanish, with simultaneous translation into English.
For further details (registration fees, venues, detailed programme), do not hesitate to directly contact the Secretariat of the Kreanta Foundation.
Telephone +34 934 301 427 and e-mail: ciudadescreativas@kreanta.org
You can complete the online registration form available on the Kreanta Foundation’s website
Friday October 14, 2011
In the framewor of the ENCATC Annual Conference
Venue: Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Bulevardi 31
Chair: Svetlana Hristova, South-West University in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, Chair of the ENCATC Thematic Area
Invited speaker: Dr. Katriina Soini, Chair of the COST action IS1007, Finland
This topic was discussed in Barcelona (2009) during the ENCATC 17th Annual Conference, where a special session was devoted to urban sustainability. Cities have been seen as special cultural ecosystems which, to put it in the words of Jordi Marti, Barcelona Culture Councilor, plant the seeds of sustainable development where culture will play a central role.
This theme was re-energized in the framework of the 18th ENCATC Annual Conference in Brussels (2010) at the seminar devoted to Cultural Innovations and Creativity as an Engine for Sustainable Urban Development.
Unquestionably, in times of tight budgetary constraints, this topic gains new importance. And although it has been implicitly touched upon in such visionary documents as Europe 2020 strategy, where the priorities for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth have been set up, including the idea of smart cities, it still deserves to be further elaborated and illuminated. On the other hand, although over the last two decades culture is increasingly recognized in the theoretical analyses and various NGOs platforms as the fourth pillar of sustainable development (along with economic vitality, social equity and ecological balance) it is still treated more as a decorative element than an aspect of the overall planning in political strategies and programs. With the belief that understanding the multiple meanings of sustainability and the central role of culture in this framework is critical to advance this new priority for effective urban governance, we invited Dr. Katriina Soini, Chair of the COST action IS1007 Investigating Cultural Sustainability (http://www.cost.esf.org/domains_actions/isch/Actions/IS1007 ) to present and debate with us various discourses on cultural sustainability and to present the newly initiated action of COST program of ESF.
The main discussion topics are: Understanding better cultural sustainability of cities; Creativity and innovation as engines for cultural sustainability of European cities; Mapping successful examples of cultural innovative events and accounting their effects upon urban sustainable development; New innovative networks between universities, NGO-sector and urban administrations; Practice-led education programs for development of new competences for sustainable urban governance.
To REGISTER to this event.
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INVITATION
Dear members,
Dear collegues,
On the occasion of the 19th Annual Conference of ENCATC (European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres) in Helsinki, the ENCATC Thematic Area ”Urban Management and Cultural Policy of City” will continue the elaboration of the complex and still debatable issue of creativity and cultural sustainability of cities.
This topic has been raisen yet in Barcelona (2009) at the ENCATC 17 annual conference, where special session has been devoted to urban sustainability. Cities have been seen as special cultural ecosystems which – to put it in the words of Jordi Marti, Barcelona Culture Councillor, plant the seeds of sustainable development where culture will play a central role. This theme was re-energized in the framework of the 18th ENCATC annual conference in Brussels (2010) at the WG6 meeting devoted to Cultural Innovations and Creativity as an Engine for Sustainable Urban Development.
Unquestionably, in times of tight budget constraints this topic gains new importance. And although it has been implicitly touched in such visionary documents as Europe 2020 strategy, where the priorities to smart, sustainable and inclusive growth have been set up, including the idea of smart cities, it still deserves to be further elaborated and illuminated. On the other hand, although since the last two decades culture along with economic vitality, social equity and ecological balance is increasingly recognized in the theoretical analyses and various NGOs platforms as the fourth pillar of sustainable development, it is still treated more as a decorative element than an aspect of the overall planning in political strategies and programs.
Believing that understanding of multiple meanings of sustainability and the central role of culture in this framework is critical to advance this new priority for effective urban governance we invite all who are interested in this thematic area, to join the discussion on October 14 from 9.00 a.m. The key speaker Dr. Katriina Soini, Chair of the COST action IS1007 Investigating Cultural Sustainability (http://www.cost.esf.org/domains_actions/isch/Actions/IS1007) will analyze the various discourses on cultural sustainability and present the newly initiated action of COST program of ESF.
The main discussion topics are:
If you are interested to contribute to the discussion with your research-driven or practice-lead analysis, presentation of case-study and/or successful example of innovative urban practices conducing to vital urban environment, please send us a proposal including the following information:
To register for this event please click here: http://www.encatc.org/register/
The proposals to be sent to: sv.hristova@abv.bg
Please consult the ENCATC website (www.encatc.org) for information concerning our other exciting activities taking place in parallel.
Participation to this seminar running on the 14th of October from 9h00 is free of charge.
We look very much forward to meeting you in October in Helsinki!!
Best regards,
Svetlana Hristova Giannalia Cogliandro Beyens
Chair of the ENCATC Thematic Area ENCATC Secretary General
To consulthe the agenda of the meeting, please click here.
28-30 September 2011, Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
The Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal, the Utrecht School for the Arts, Utrecht, Netherlands; the Small Cities Community-University Research Alliance at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada in close partnership with ENCATC, the leading European network in cultural management and cultural policy education, will organize on the 28-30 September 2011 a second annual symposium on Animation of Public Space through the Arts: Innovation and Sustainability.
Taking place at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal this event is an initiative of the ENCATC Thematic area ‘Urban management and cultural policy of the city’ lead by Prof. Svetlana Hiristova since 2007.
The leading question of the 2011 symposium is how innovative artistic animation of public spaces can contribute to building more sustainable cities. Community sustainability is viewed as encompassing and intertwining environmental, cultural, social, and economic sustainability and resiliency. The forum will explore and advance arts-based approaches to sustainable city building, public engagement, and animation of public space by bringing together interdisciplinary researchers, students, and practitioners to share experiences and insights.
Among the discussion themes are:
In the framework of the symposium there will be a special presentation and event with artists involved in Coimbra’s 1976 “Week of art in the streets” and special art commissions organized by Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra (CAPC), a Centre for Contemporary Art.
The symposium topics will be also explored in two artistic workshops (Friday, 30th of September 2011):
Other partners for the Symposium include:
University of Coimbra ‘Cities and Urban Cultures’ MA and PhD programmes
University of Coimbra Department of Architecture – Architecture; Design and Multimedia programmes
Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra (CAPC) – Centre for Contemporary Art, Coimbra, Portugal
O Teatrão, Coimbra, Portugal
Pier K, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands
STUT Theatre, Utrecht, The Netherlands
If you are interested in presenting at the symposium or within one of the workshops, please send us a proposal on your research, artistic project, or other initiative. Please include the following information:
Deadline for submissions: 15 May 2011
Proposals will be reviewed by the Organizing Committee for the Symposium.
For additional information, please contact the coordinator of the event, Dr. Nancy Duxbury, Centre for Social Studies (CES), email: duxbury@ces.uc.pt
Information about the recent development of the symposium can be received here:
http://www.ces.uc.pt/eventos/animation/pages/en/home.php
Dear colleagues,
In the EU urban policies innovation is usually spelled out together with science, industry and technology, while culture is most often interpreted in the context of cultural industries, heritage and tourism. (This is clearly seen for example in the philosophy and practices of such program as the European Fund of Regional Development.) However, after a meeting in Brussels on May 12, 2009 the Education, Youth and Culture Council disseminated a new message in the European public space, underlying the vital role of culture, creativity and innovation … for the competitiveness and development of our economies and our societies, which are all the more important in times of rapid changes and serious challenges (The Council Conclusions on Culture as a Catalyst of Creativity and Innovation).
It is interesting therefore to throw a closer look on the overall effects of innovative cultural actions implemented through public arts, architecture and design on the process of reimagining and regeneration of our cities.
Trying to define ‘cultural innovation’ we can assume that innovative elements in cultural events can be discovered not only in experimental cutting-edge artistic works, but in a broader sense in many different aspects of cultural life in modern cities: in new artistic synthesis and interdisciplinary approaches; in the discovery of new stages for innovative or even traditional artistic forms; in the development of new audiences; in the participatory planning and implementation of artistic projects in the urban environment; more generally, in the enrichment of artistic projects with new social functions. From such point of view, cultural innovations foster access to culture and inclusive societies; make citizens more sensitive and aware of the quality of their public space; create benchmarks of the places we live in and enhance their attractiveness and revitalization. That is why let us share our research experiences and begin to create an information hub for good practices.
Therefore if you have realized a cultural project with innovative elements or if you would like to share such information as a good practice in your city, please fill in the Register form and send it to Svetlana Hristova, the chair of ENCATC’s thematic area ‘Urban Management and Cultural Policy of City’: sv.hristova@abv.bg. All positive examples will be published on this blog.
We believe that such collection of good practices of innovative cultural events in our cities will enable us to analyze comparatively from country to country the whole range of effects which public arts and culture exert upon the livability and sustainability of our cities thus enriching our knowledge about various cultural policies and different managerial models for urban planning and development existing within EU.
Dear participant, please contribute to our thematic area blog. We hope that you will find it of benefit and that you receive useful responses. ENCATC is dedicated to developing the debate of themes outlined in our aims through our thematic areas.
Please note that ENCATC reserves the right to remove material that contravenes the normal standards of public debate.
The ”Urban management & cultural policy of city” thematic area and associated projects are part of ENCATC. However, views and opinions expressed on this blog are not necessarily the views and opinions of ENCATC.
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