Valuing and Evaluating Creativity for Sustainable Regional Development

This event is on 12 September 2016

This September, ICC Head of Research for Cultural Policy, Dr. Beatriz García, will deliver a keynote presentation at the Valuing and Evaluating Creativity for Sustainable Regional Development conference, which is being organised and hosted by Mid Sweden University at its Östersund campus.

The conference is designed to support and open the 10th Annual Summit of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN), and will connect researchers, policy-makers and representatives from member cities in the network in order to share study methods and findings, engage in dialogue, and advance the knowledge base regarding the use of creativity for sustainable development. Key research questions for the conference include:

• What is the value of cities of culture, and how can this be evaluated?
• What is the relationship between cities of culture and their surrounding regions?
• How can the scientific community help develop guiding strategies and advance best practices for the UNESCO Creative Cities Network?

Conference presenters will be encouraged to address these questions or the seven Creative Cities thematic areas (crafts and folk arts, design, film, gastronomy, literature, media arts, and music) in their proposals, which will be allowed to pertain to any stage in the research process: from promising concepts, to works in progress, to published work.

Photo credits
“Campus A4” by Britt-Marie Sohlström is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0