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.

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UNESCO Creative Cities Network Xth Annual Meeting

This event is on 14 September 2016

This week, as an observer at the UNESCO Creative Cities Network Xth Annual Meeting, ICC Head of Research, Dr. Beatriz García, will participate in a panel discussion on the role of culture and creativity in relation to sustainable urban development.

The UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) connects cities that want to share experiences, ideas, and best practices for cultural, social, and economic development. The annual meeting of the network in Östersund will act as a key platform for dialogue and partnership working between the Creative Cities and UNESCO, and has been complemented, this year, by a scientific conference, Valuing and Evaluating Creativity for Sustainable Regional Development (VEC), which is designed to convene researchers and policy-makers in support of the research and evaluation needs of the UCCN.

Further information on the annual meeting is available here. Further information on the VEC conference, at which Dr. García will be delivering a keynote presentation, is available here.

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