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UCLG – MEXICO CITY – CULTURE 21 4th EDITION - INTERNATIONAL AWARD

CATEGORY “CITY / LOCAL OR REGIONAL GOVERNMENT” SUMMARY OF THE 81 CANDIDATES

UCLG Committee The objective of the “International Award UCLG - MEXICO CITY - Culture 21” is to recognize leading cities that have distinguished themselves through their contribution to culture as a dimension of sustainable development.

The Award reaffirms the leadership of Mexico City and the commitment of UCLG to place culture as a fundamental dimension of sustainable cities.

The fourth edition of the “International Award UCLG - MEXICO CITY - Culture 21” (2019-2020) has received 81 submissions from cities and local governments from all regions of the world. This mobilization shows the solid interest in issues that connect cities, identity, future, culture and sustainability.

Following to the Rules of the Award, this document reproduces the abstract of each one of the 81 submissions. CULTURAT - MINWASHIN FIRST NATION 1 ABITIBI-TÉMISCAMINGUE, QUEBEC, CANADA

Abitibi-Témiscamingue covers an area of heritage, and skills. The seven Anishinabek 65,000 square kilometres and is home to (Algonquin) communities and the two 145,000 people. It is located far from major indigenous friendship centres in the region have urban cities and its primary industries are committed themselves to the process and have mining and forestry. The region includes signed the charter of commitment to Culturat. seven Indigenous communities and two Native In 2015, the Anishinaabe Cultural Circle was Friendship Centres, with a total of approximately created to bring these communities together 8,000 people who have suffered cultural in a space that can facilitate consultation and genocide and are now experiencing many cooperation. Culturat creates opportunities social and family problems. Culturat began for meeting and sharing between Canadians in 2012 as a mobilization initiative in Abitibi- and Algonquins centred on arts and culture Témiscamingue that would turn identity, arts, through co-creation, co-working, partnership, and culture into the core of regional sustainable and cultural mediation. In 2017, Minwashin development. It is a sustainable cultural cultural organization was created. Supported tourism approach identify the region by its art by Tourism Abitibi-Témiscamingue, the community while improving the quality of life organization is entirely Indigenous and aims of its citizens and increasing residents’ senses to stimulate and promote Anishinabek arts and of belonging and pride. Culturat establishes a culture in the territory. Culturat and Minwashin First Nations component that aims to preserve work together to support consultation, Indigenous culture, bring people together, and shared information, representation, regional lend visibility to these communities by placing development, and skills development in the value on Indigenous arts, culture, history, Algonquin cultural communities.

COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY FOR THE INTEGRATION OF ARTS 2 AND CULTURE INTO ACADIAN SOCIETY IN NEW BRUNSWICK FRANCOPHONE ASSOCIATION OF NEW BRUNSWICK MUNICIPALITIES (AFMNB), ACADIA, NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA

The Acadian people are a French-speaking minority, they face significant challenges in minority in Canada who underwent mass ensuring a strong, widespread presence of deportation in 1755 during the English their language and culture. They continue to conquest. Today, New Brunswick has 52 suffer from high socio-economic inequality and Acadian municipalities and nearly 250,000 lack local governance structures. Francophones, comprising 33% of the province’s population. While Acadians are The Comprehensive Strategy for the Integration recognized for their vibrant culture, as a of Arts and Culture into Acadian Society in New Brunswick was adopted in 2009 and renewed of Professional Artists of New Brunswick] in 2018 to address this issue. The project (AAAPNB). The effort gathers and guides 52 seeks to place arts, culture, and heritage at municipalities, 6 provincial ministries, a federal the centre of the sustainable development department, and more than 40 organizations, approach for Acadia, New Brunswick. This thereby reaching several thousand citizens. initiative was launched in 2004 alongside the As a result, more than 10 municipalities have General Assembly on arts and culture, bringing implemented cultural policies, New Brunswick’s together all sectors of civil society and different Cultural Policy has been renewed, and a policy levels of government to work together over five on cultural and linguistic management has been years to develop a major process of collective adopted. Furthermore, the provincial budget for consultation. Indeed, this process is one which culture has increased by 200%. The AAAPNB has proven to be unique, even when compared also supports 9 municipalities in their cultural with other cities around the world. events planning, while also helping to develop tools for training, exchange, and consultation This multi-stakeholder strategy was coordinated in an effort to strengthen local governance. by the civil society organization, the Association The strategy has led to several hundred actions acadienne des artistes professionnelles du related to culture, and thereby ensuring the Nouveau-Brunswick [Acadian Association sustainable development of the Acadian people.

3 CITY OF ADELAIDE’S CULTURAL STRATEGY (2017-2023) ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA

The Cultural Strategy (2017-2023) is one of well-connected city for people of all ages City of Adelaide’s (CoA) key policies delivering and abilities’, and all transport modes Adelaide’s vision as the world’s most liveable • ensure Adelaide is globally recognised as city. It is a multi-actor framework enabling an affordable and innovative place to do dialogue and collaborations with the civic business and is a test bed for innovation society, the private sector and other areas of in diverse industries. government. It strengthens CoA’s commitment to integrate culture across all areas of public The Cultural Strategy delivers shared policy and practice to: aspirations identified through extensive • ensure the wellbeing of local consultation with communities, the cultural communities sector, Councillors, staff, and those involved in delivering cultural activities across the • celebrate Adelaide’s unique built, natural city. Adelaide’s unique cultural identity, a and cultural heritage strong cultural economy, a connected cultural • lead the way in climate action and community, cultural incubation, and diverse manage water, waste, transport in a cultural experiences sustain the city’s rich sustainable way cultural ecosystem filled with culture makers • ensure a safe, affordable, accessible, and world class creative industries. Adelaide´s UNESCO City of Music designation and people’s self-esteem. Culture enables amplifies globally its vibrant music scene new social spaces, collective meanings, and celebrated through public art, street activations resilience. and festivals. Culture is a key factor of the attractiveness of Adelaide, driving tourism, CoA’s Cultural Strategy affirms culture as a innovation and employment, retaining young cross-cutting driver and enabler of Adelaide’s people and drawing global talent. Adelaide´s development as a sustainable city, highlighting cultural activities are accelerators of climate the relationship between culture, citizenship action, building community capacity, and sustainability, and supporting the local sustainable behaviours and practices. Active implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the participation in the city’s cultural life is a Agenda 21 for culture. key aspect of social inclusion, wellbeing

RAYMIKUNA 4 AZUAY, ECUADOR

The Prefecture of Azuay has been working • KILLA RAYMI (21 September) - on the recovery of the ancestral celebrations Celebration of fertility and the feminine, called Raymikunas, as part of a recovery it is held in the middle of the autumn process of the ancestral culture. Raymikunas equinox. are events that help to make visible the • KAPAK RAYMI (21 de December) - Held knowledge of the Andean cosmovision, on the winter solstice, it is the initial life valuing the four fundamental elements of cycle of children, the beginning of new life: fire, air, earth and water. It also leads leadership within the family, community us to recover the identity of the Azuayans, and organizations. being celebrations based on the participation • PAWKAR RAYMI (21 March) - Ritual of the different cantons (cities), students of that gives a start to the spring equinox, all levels, cultural managers, other relevant celebrates the harmonious relationship organizations and peoples of the Azuay with Mother Nature, the cosmos, and the province. All four Raymikunas are held in our divinities. country at the level of the Andean peoples through different music, dance, gastronomy • INTI RAYMI (21 June) - It takes place and ancestral medicine epistemologies and on the day of the summer solstice; ethnographies. According to the lunar/solar celebration of the sun and the moon. The calendar it is focused on four stages: sowing, “Sacred Sun Ceremony” is celebrated germination, harvesting of tender grains with ritual baths, dance and offerings in and the final harvest. The festivals that are all communities, in order to demonstrate celebrated are: gratitude for the crops harvested. 5 WOMEN AND FAMILY CULTURE AND ARTS CENTRE BAGCILAR, ISTANBUL, TURKEY

We, as Bağcılar Municipality, have embraced Bağcılar Municipality included culture the mission of ensuring the sustainability of policies within the Strategic plans updated on the services that add value to the lives of 5-year periods. In addition to basic municipal citizens with a participatory management services and as part of people-centered and approach and innovative solutions under social municipal approach, support policies for a cultural framework. In line with people- those who have economic power but unable to oriented approach, our vision is to create and overcome social, personal and socio-economic maintain happy individuals, strong society, obstacles alone are prioritized. Vulnerable healthy environment and a qualified cultural groups such as women and children are identity that looks into the future with hope identified as main target group in the frame by increasing the quality of life of the people of these policies. Thus, the first step taken and enabling them to raise better generations. by Bağcılar Municipality in respect to this policy was opening up Women and Family Accordingly, municipality services are Culture and Art Centre in 2011. The Centre carried out with consideration to social offers diversified set of socio-cultural courses values awareness, participation, and basic and services like foreign language courses social welfare values. At the same time, which bring host and immigrant communities commitment to historical, cultural and moral together, art and design workshops, personal values, supporting of education, culture, arts development courses, entrepreneurship and sports, prioritizing services for women, courses, and psychological support services. children, disabled and disadvantaged groups These efforts enhance the cultural competence and social municipality principles are adopted of participants by paving the way for people of as institutional policy. Bağcılar district is diverse backgrounds and experiences working formed through immigrations from all regions together. of Turkey, and represents the melting pot of Turkey with its cultural diversity.

6 THE “HERITAGE ROUTES” AS A MEANS OF EMPHASIZING THE CULTURAL DIVERSITY OF BAIE-MAHAULT BAIE-MAHAULT, GUADELOUPE, FRANCE

Located in the centre of GUADELOUPE, the This project was therefore crucial in helping to city of Baie-Mahault is a land rich in culture, identify, safeguard, protect, and enhance the with an exceptional amount of cultural area’s multifaceted communal heritage. diversity because of its unique history and location within the Caribbean Basin. Given that a heritage component was largely absent from the Local Urban Plan, a major revision took place in 2014. A heritage It is the result of various diagnoses, studies, charter has been developed to provide and inventories. At the end of this project, the guidance on how to emphasize the value of city pursued the following: the city’s heritage. It focuses on: • Establishing the “Following in • Vernacular architecture the Footsteps of Ignatius and his • Noteworthy works (homes, administrative Companions” route buildings, character houses) • Restoration of the monument to the dead • Homes (colonial houses, workers’ huts • Naming of public roads, squares, and and ruins, various relics) buildings • Environmental spaces (places, open • Creation of a Marine Education Area spaces, landscapes, canals, and plant (AME) on the northern coast of the city life: Silk-cotton trees or other large trees) • Renovation of various heritage buildings, • Religious and spiritual heritage including the roof of the church (churches, chapels, cemeteries, tombs, • Addressing and renovating colonial crosses) buildings

These regulatory documents issue Preservation and enhancement of the northern recommendations on how to safeguard coastline by protecting the Silk-cotton trees, actions reflecting the cultural diversity of the a mythical, mystical, and symbolic tree of territory, which can be put in place during the Guadeloupean culture. project. THE “HERITAGE ROUTES” are clever approach to this issue that has been used across the region.

QUEEN BEE AND BEE PRODUCTS PRODUCTION CENTRE 7 BALIKESIR, TURKEY

Within the scope of the 2017 investment the Queen Bee Production Permit given to program of Balıkesir Metropolitan Municipality by Ministry of Food, Agriculture Municipality, Queen Bee and Bee Products and Livestock. Our Queen Bee and Bee Production Centre is established and located Production Centre, inclusive of all citizens, is in Balıkesir on 50 decares area within the established very close to city centre located borders of Karesi District. In accordance at 7.5 km on Edremit road and 2.2 km away with the purpose of investment program from the Kabakdere road junction. Innovative mainly combating climate change and its and the other routine beekeeping activities effects, all kinds of infrastructure works and controls are performed in our facility have been completed by Municipality and during the working hours. The apiculture production activities have been started with activities carried out with a total of 5 people, 1 technician graduated from beekeeping development and planted for pollination in school and 1 civil servant, 3 beekeepers the area ,thus, a large number of jobs and who are experts in their field. In addition to livelihoods being created in rural areas. For training activities of farmers for production of the purpose of the protection, development bee (the courses, which draw great interest, and support of sustainable use of terrestrial started on 21.01.2019 and lasted 4 days ecosystems, sustainable management of a week in 2 different groups with total 110 forests, combating desertification, stopping trainees) with Applied Certified Bee Breeding and improving terrestrial degradation and Course in 2020 in order to ensure inclusive, preventing biodiversity loss, workings for fair education and to promote lifelong learning the establishment of the Honey Forest by for all, various medicinal aromatic plants are cooperating with the partner institutions of the planted as well for sustainable ecological centre still continue.

8 FASHION VILLAGE LAB: PILOGNG CIRCULAR CREATIVE ECONOMY ECOSYSTEM IN FASHION INDUSTRY BANDUNG, WEST JAVA, INDONESIA

Fashion Village Lab (FVL) was initiated in As goes with other BCCF projects, FVL involves 2014 as a research collaboration between a all Penta Helix stakeholders: Academia, Dutch architect and Bandung Creative City Business sector, Communities, Government, Forum (BCCF) concerning fashion industry and Media; through the 3C phase of Connect ecosystem in Cigondewah, an area at the - Collaborate - Commerce/Celebrate. The outskirt of Bandung known as a site of a first phase, Connect, included mapping and garment factory that produces multinational identification of inhabitants, local leaders, fashion brands. The main issues of FVL local governments, and potential partners, focused on the environment, social, and local resources and potentials, activities, economy qualities of the inhabitants. The and each their roles within the area. The garment factory has been the source of second phase, Collaborate, was filled with water and soil pollutions; while the tens of experiments, concept buildings, workshops thousands of its workers, mostly women, live and trainings, public space interventions, and in substandard housing around the area. The other engagements with local communities. local inhabitants have been living among piles The third phase, Commerce/Celebrate, shows of textile scraps; some use these as the main preliminary results such as a mural and the material to make products such as house establishment of a local co-operative, but is mats and fashion accessories. not yet completed. THE DECENTRALIZE PROJECT 9 BELO HORIZONTE, MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL

The Decentralize program aims to provide persons with language difficulties, people benefits offered by the municipal policy on in disadvantaged social situations, as promoting culture in the city of Belo Horizonte. well as children, the elderly, or other Regulated by municipal laws, a call for tender groups traditionally overlooked in to all regions of the city was opened for cultural cultural programs or activities within the projects and actions that facilitate access to municipality; resources, and funding from the municipal III. Strengthening actions carried out in culture fund to entrepreneurs. neighbourhoods, regions, and territories through shared municipal management The project aims to implement actions under that historically have low participation the following guidelines: rates under the traditional methods of the I. Recognition for projects that propose Municipal Promotion of Culture. the decentralization of cultural facilities. Public and private areas, as well as As a result, Decentralize tries to select public places, parks, and squares, projects aimed at improving artistic and intended for the movement of goods, cultural expression in the most diverse regions services, and cultural events throughout of the city, seeking to promote the balanced, the geographical area of the municipality; equal development of all a city’s regions, II. Democratization of access to culture with public, artists, actors, collectives, groups, and universal access to goods and services, cultural institutions, in addition promoting to including cultural accessibility for people exchange between them. with disabilities and/or reduced mobility,

CULTURAL POLICY OF POSITIONING BEYLIKDÜZÜ AS A SUSTAINABLE 10 ALTERNATIVE CULTURAL CENTER IN THE URBAN PERIPHERY BEYLIKDUZU, ISTANBUL, TURKEY

Cultural Policy of Positioning Beylikdüzü as first introduced in 2014 covers the inclusion A Sustainable Alternative Cultural Center of culture in public planning processes in a in The Urban Periphery (hereafter referred strategic and holistic manner, and creating to as “the Cultural Policy” or “the Policy”) a cultural hub in newly developing ‘Western is Beylikduzu Municipality’s set of cultural Istanbul’ which is relatively far from the strategies that aim to position Beylikduzu as city-centre. Supporting cultural initiatives, a sustainable alternative cultural center in encouraging citizens to participate in cultural the urban periphery. This policy, which was life through various cultural venues and activities, facilitating access to culture and Within the framework, Youth Symphony participation of disadvantaged communities Orchestra and Polyphonic Youth Choir as well in culture, and enriching urban identity at as Folk Dance Group and Municipality Theater the local level constitute the backbone of the were established in the Culture and Art Center. Policy. In addition to culture and arts education, there are courses for university exams at the Culture Beylikdüzü Municipality, in a participatory CEC (Culture – Continuous Education Center) fashion, adopted the Cultural Policy for a for families that cannot afford preparatory culturally alive, livable and socially inclusive schools. In addition to these, library services district which arouses citizens’ sense of have been developed in order to provide valid, belonging to Beylikduzu, in addition to accurate and reliable information. For visually economic flourishing, and created cultural handicapped users, a wide range of audio- infrastructure for projects. Ataturk Culture and books have been added to the catalogue. Art Center along with exhibition and education As a whole, the Policy and works under its sections of Valley of Life, which is the series framework have managed to create a cultural of city parks provide the infrastructure for the ecosystem that sustains itself. activities and projects.

11 BOLOGNA CULTURE LIVING LAB. PLACING CULTURE AND CULTURAL HERITAGE AT THE CENTRE OF PARTICIPATORY, ACCESSIBLE, SUSTAIN- ABLE AND CIRCULAR PROCESSES LEADING POSITIVE URBAN TRANS- FORMATIONS AND RESILIENT COMMUNITIES. BOLOGNA, ITALY

Cultural Heritage is a vital part of Europe capable of generating environmental, inclusive and European cities. Bologna Culture Living and economic growth. Over the course of the Lab has been developed within ROCK (www. last three years, Bologna has been searching rockproject.eu), a project funded by the for innovative answers to the question on H2020 programme of the EU, coordinated how the past can be a tool for building urban by the Municipality of Bologna in strict future, developing a new, collaborative and collaboration with the University, which systemic approach which combines technical, aims at demonstrating that Cultural Heritage organizational and social innovation in a circular is not only a static vestige of the past to be model. Local actors, associations, institutions, preserved, but rather a driving force bringing students and businesses got together to share new creative energy to historic city centres, visions, knowledge and skills, to give new which can become living laboratories where values, meanings and functions to public to test new models of urban regeneration, spaces, through a participatory path which and where culture and cultural heritage are brought to the activation of dedicated Living placed at the centre of a circular process, Labs, like the U-Lab, where U stands for the University area, test bed for experimentation. Through this project, Bologna has tested the Creativity, culture, knowledge, accessibility and effectiveness of this systemic, participatory sustainability integrate and draw strength from and integrated approach in addressing the each other to define the future of cities and specific needs of the historic city centre, to empower communities to co-design actions mixing European funding and local public in a collaborative way, making participatory and private contributions and starting new governance of cultural heritage an ordinary city partnerships and alliances for the benefit of practice. the city as a commons.

CONEXÃO CULTURA DF (CULTURE CONNECTION DF) 12 BRASILIA, BRAZIL

ConexãoCultura program is aimed at the The modalities supported by the program are formation, qualification and projection of the Circulation, Events, Platforms and Exchange. art and culture of the Federal District in Brazil This last mode allows local artists to travel and abroad, in order to expand the circulation to other countries to attend fairs, festivals, and enjoyment of cultural and creative agents, symposiums, among other cultural events. goods and services, to strengthen local cultural identity and culture itself, as an integrated development vector in the territory.

IMPLEMENTING THE “HERITAGE AND CREATIVITY FOR CULTURAL 13 DEVELOPMENT” STRATEGY IN BRAZZAVILLE BRAZZAVILLE, REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

In 2012, the Brazzaville Regional and Mu- • Providing the city with a creative impetus nicipal Council adopted a strategy to develop help it stand out on the international stage; culture and the economy, whose core focus • Strengthen social cohesion by giving would be to highlight cultural, tangible, and inhabitants a peaceful memory to build intangible heritage, promote intercultural upon for the future following the civil war dialogue, and strengthen social cohesion • Establishing a culture of development and outreach in this multicultural city. It also aims to improve the living conditions of its • Improving people’s living conditions residents by developing the local creative through access to culture and education economy. • Providing Brazzaville’s cultural sector with a strong economy to aid in the city’s Brazzaville’s vision for development in the development areas of culture and tourism is centred on: • Making Brazzaville an attractive tourist issues faced during the national crisis that destination because of its vibrant cultural life began in 2014, the community has focused • Strengthening the operational capabilities on developing instruments for implementing of the municipal government. priority guidelines for the strategy. This is to be achieved by making public spaces available Developing culture and tourism, with actors, to artists, creating a directory of local cultural events, and training activities for these. resources, particularly heritage and tourism, Additionally, despite the socio-economic and by supporting creation.

14 REIMAGINE BULAWAYO BULAWAYO, ZIMBABWE

In the contexts of urban growth, aligned to the Bulawayo City Council’s strategic deindustrialization, increased social inequality, development plan, extending Nhimbe Trust’s cultural fragmentation and the threats posed initiative in the formulation of a draft cultural by climate change, it is appropriate for the City policy, and validated by cultural stakeholders. of Bulawayo to implement concrete strategies to promote and strengthen the role of arts and The capacity of the Bulawayo City Council culture as drivers of inclusive and sustainable and the Department of Housing and development and to mainstream cultural Community Service to integrate cultural policies and initiatives in urban development policy in development strategies with culture strategies. being considered as a key factor in human development and the creation of strong, resilient The project establishes mechanisms for the and inclusive communities, is strengthened integration of an Arts, Culture and Heritage through an enhanced understanding of the Policy into the strategic operational parameters United Nations Sustainable Development of the Bulawayo City Council; the clarification of Goals, while the institutional capacity of the the conceptual basis of cultural policies within Bulawayo Cultural Affairs Office is strengthened local government structures; the affirmation allowing for the provision of quality technical of culture as a driver for sustainable socio- expertise to the Council. economic development, social inclusion and environmental sustainability, and; within this Public arts expressions are recognised through framework, the fostering of cultural identity the conceptualisation and delivery of a public as it relates to the protection and promotion of arts commission. the diversity of cultural expressions. Crucially the project is consistent with and The project provides for the finalisation of an aligned to the Agenda 21 for Culture and Arts, Culture and Heritage Policy document the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. FLIGHT OF THE HOLY FAMILY IN EGYPT 15 CAIRO, EGYPT

The Path of the Holy Family is a national project, Pope Francis has embraced the Holy family launched by Ministry of Local Development journey in Egypt as an official Christian as a supervising entity. The path of the Holy pilgrimage in October 2017, the blessing of Family represents the stop points of the Holy the Pope is considered an invitation to Catholic Family during its flight to Egypt. Upon arriving pilgrims around the world to perform their in Egypt, the Holy Family moved locations religious rites in Egypt. Since then, we’ve been very frequently so as to avoid the reach of working as a ministry, with the collaboration Herod’s spies. In total, there are 25 locations of many entities, that coordinates between passing by 8 governorates throughout the the 27 governorates, we have been working country (Cairo, Beheira, Sharkia, Kafr el on raising the quality of sites-infrastructure to Sheikh, Minya, Assiut, Gharbiya and North enable the pilgrims to be self-independent in Sinai) where the Holy Family passed through full services around their visiting area, this is or sought refuge during their three-and-a-half done in parallel with restoring ancient sites and years in hiding. It is the longest pilgrimage monasteries. We are seeking by this project to route in the world within one country. The combine different cultures of the governorates project has received the attention of the state to be known for pilgrims, as we are targeting and all parties to stimulate religious tourism, the factories and special handcrafts centers create job opportunities and develop the of each governorate. We’re combining though infrastructure for the governorates through this project cities’ urbanization in conjunction which the project passes. with preserving our cultural identity.

THE “2020 CARACHI BOOK CAFE FESTIVAL, 3RD BI-NATIONAL 16 (ECUADOR + COLOMBIA) BOOKS AND READING FAIR” CARCHI, ECUADOR

The “2020 Carachi book & coffee festival, 3rd international publishers. There were talks and bi-national (Ecuador + Colombia) books and conferences on the value and importance of reading fair” originally sought to strengthen literature in society. There were also coffee and promote the practices of reading, workshops by expert baristas and tasters, in appreciation for coffee, and visibility for addition to greater visibility for productive productive initiatives throughout the Carchi ventures. Province. The four previous years of the Bi-national Fair In the first four years there were prominent were jointly hosted by the Carchi Book & Coffee national and international writers who Festival (Ecuador) and the Ipiales Season of attended, with an exhibition of national and Literature (Colombia), with State Institutions: Benjamín Carrión House of Ecuadorian With a focus on expanding citizenship, entry Culture in Carchi. Ministry of Culture and and access are both free to all audiences, with Heritage of Ecuador. Ecuadorian Chamber of special emphasis on vulnerable, children, Books, Ipiales City Mayor, Ministry of Culture youth, and student populations of all ages. For and the Academy of Language of Colombia. the “2020 Carachi book & coffee festival, 3rd bi-national (Ecuador + Colombia) books and The event addresses the need for reflections on reading fair” the bi-national process will adopt contemporary narratives and the possibilities an even more inclusive approach by inviting for regional development in the Bi-national a third Latin American country: Brazil. In Cultural Integration Border Zone, which addition to expanding and decentralizing the helps to develop a reading community that fair for the Montúfar and Mira cantons. is educated and informed on its local context within the global landscape.

17 BARRIER-FREE INCUBATION CENTER ÇATALCA, ISTANBUL, TURKEY

Today’s civilized societies are in an effort to this new world that has become a global develop equitable policies, which provide village. Almost all of the member states of sustainable but competitive economic growth the European Union (EU) are also members while improving employment in that same vein. of the United Nations (UN). In this context, All governing authorities acknowledge that many of the UN regulations concerning technology strengthened by the contribution people with disabilities have been adopted of science is the most important dynamic by the EU member states as well. The EU of economic growth. As such, technology’s regards people with disabilities as equal to value for providing equal opportunities for all other members of the society, rather than and the inevitability of using technology more as passive and indigent. In this context, it broadly and effectively in order to become plans the entirety of the social and economic a leader in a competitive environment have processes to be inclusive of individuals with both become apparent. In this era where disabilities. The main objective of this project every house has turned into an office and is to establish networks that support this every door opens to online markets, support principle. Our project aims to; for entrepreneurship has started to be seen 1. Support the employment of individuals as the basic model for solving the problem with disabilities and to establish the of unemployment. Countries that effectively necessary legal foundation, determine their science and technology 2. Determine the most appropriate training policies by recognizing the undeniable model and to disseminate it with transformation of our times, take their place legislation, in the class of ever-growing economies in 3. Encourage R&D investments and 4. Direct individuals with disabilities to provide equal opportunities for towards entrepreneurship and interactive individuals with disabilities, commerce, and thereby strengthening active citizenship and encouraging innovative ideas.

LIVING TREASURES OF THE CULTURE OF CEARA 18 CEARÁ, BRASIL

The State of Ceará/Brasil is a reference for the Treasures of the Culture” of the State of diversity and plurarity of masters, groups of the Ceará: natural people (Culture masters0, the traditional and popular culture, are expressions groups, and the communities equipped with of reisados, capoeiras, lapinhas, art-craft, the knowledge and techniques of cultural mateiros, woodcuts, blessed, indigenous and activities, whose production, perseverance afro-brazilian cultures, dramatists, coconut and the provision, are recognized because dances, maneiro-pau, cordéis, mamulengos, of their high level of mastery, constituting an congadas, penitentes, june celebrations, important benchmark of the Ceara’s Culture. popular medicine, aboiadores, repentistas, violeiros, chorinhos, puppet theater, and so When it comes to the masters of the popular many other manifestations. traditional culture, we are talking about people that possess an ancient knowledge that was The Masters of Culture of Ceará are recognized provided by their family and/or is an ancient by the law nº 13.842, from November 27th practice or activity of a group that lasted of 2006 –Registering of “Living Treasures of through the years, maintaining the know-how; the Culture” at the State of Ceara. The Law of have great experience and comprehension of “Living Treasures of the Culture” is a pioneer the same with the capacity of transferring this law in Brazil, directed to the knowledge of the knowledge and the required techniques for the know-how of masters of the traditional and production, diffusing and preservation and the popular culture. The State of Ceará possesses expression of a popular tradition. Has its work 94 living treasures in action, 78 masters of recognized by agents of cultural manifestation the popular traditional culture, 13 groups of that represents, by the community where tradition and 3 collectivities. they live, as well as by other cultural sectors, constituting an important reference of the According to the state Law nº 13.842, of traditional popular culture of Ceará. November 27th of 2006, we envisage “Living 19 CHIANG MAI CENTRE MUSEUMS NETWORK CHIANG MAI, THAILAND

Chiang Mai Center Museums Network participatory approach, centres on connecting consists of the Chiang Mai City Arts & Cultural the city’s diverse urban civil society groups, Center, Chiang Mai Historical Center and academic and cultural groups into what it Lanna Folk Life Museum. The Network falls sees as a “movement for change” to improve under the Municipality’s Urban Development the liveability of the city and to enhance the and Promotion subdivision allowing it to link well-being of its citizens. its cultural promotion functions, with its city development imperatives. Its mandate is to The Network’s three sites clustered in the heart preserve and present the history, arts, culture of the Old City, serve as a “central area” and and traditions of Chiang Mai to locals and public space, where government, citizens and visitors. It works with three cultural assets: the others can work to further shared visions of unique cultural heritage of the region’s Lanna Chiang Mai, drawing on the city’s rich cultural people; the Old City as an ancient urban form and environmental assets. Through a series based on sustainable development principles; of collective projects it aims to be a catalyst and the city’s deeply intertwined relationship for sustainable urban development in the city, to its natural and agricultural environment. by offering opportunities for conservation, expression, information dissemination, Taking a collaborative approach, the Network dialogue, education and collaboration. Thus uses its organizational capacity and central the Network acts as a knowledge hub and location as “work tools”, providing access for community centre for civil society, to help its citizens to municipal resources, and in revive the values embedded the city, building this way mobilising its content as “cultural on its institutional capacity to propel Chiang capital” for the betterment of the city. This Mai into a more sustainable future.

20 CULTURE IN MOTION CIUDAD JUÁREZ, CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO

“Culture in Motion” aims to strengthen social and involvement in neighbourhood committees. This community ties by encouraging the reclamation makes it possible to consolidate objectives and of public spaces in conjunction with arts and plans focused on development by conducting culture activities that promote community outreach and information meetings, community participation, supportive coexistence, social assemblies, community diagnostics assessments, cohesion, and family integration. training for promoters, training workshops, cultural and recreational events, monitoring and The appropriation of public spaces through strengthening for beneficiaries, as well as social this program is only possible by developing capital training for on the environment. citizen participation strategies that impact The program has been developed primarily to spaces. Such circumstances have driven the generate conditions of supportive coexistence city to provide new leisure opportunities and among neighbourhood residents, thereby subsequently establish a better quality of life helping to restore a sense of safety and the fight for girls, boys, adolescents, and everyone else against violence that is prevalent throughout in the community. This is accomplished by the City of Juárez. This both directly and ensuring access to artistic expressions such as indirectly impacts socio-cultural issues such music, painting, and theatre, which specifically as: violence, family breakdown, low levels of helps at-risk persons in the community and citizen participation, inadequate use of public builds citizenship in reclaimed public spaces.

CONCEPCIÓN CREATION CENTRE (C3): A SPACE FOR CREATIVE 21 COLLABORATION BASED ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONCEPCIÓN, CHILE

C3 is part of the Concepción 2030 Cultural Greater Concepción area. The building is an Plan, which seeks to establish culture as a example of infrastructure that is designed and pillar of sustainable development for the managed in order to contribute to sustainable city. It was developed in 2014 through development, the creative sector, and also to a participatory process that collectively aid in the recovery of the local neighbourhood, prioritized the C3 project. This plan allowed and also the city centre. Concepción to become a Pilot City for Agenda 21 for culture from 2014 to 2018. Its programs are aimed specifically at professionals, companies, and organizations It began as a space for creative collaboration in the fields of design, architecture, music, to enhance the city’s economic development, technology, the performing arts, cultural which was marked by significant organizations, and local residents. It offers deindustrialization and struck significantly 900 square metres of space for offices, by the earthquake of 2010, which sparked a workshops, meeting and rehearsal rooms, material, social, and cultural crisis. as well almost 4 thousand square metres for outdoor activities. It offers activities for C3 began operating in March 2016 at the training and meeting, consultancies, as former “República Argentina” School, 5 well as backing and partnerships through a blocks from the centre of Concepción. After network of collaborating institutions. being abandoned for years, the building was remodelled, equipped, and made available to Over the last 4 years, it has hosted more the community. This project involved residents than 200 projects, benefiting 50 creative and multiple private and state organizations. companies and cultural groups, in which approximately 600 people have carried out Today, it is the largest collaborative workspace over 600 activities that have impacted more for artistic and creative projects in the than 160,000 people. 22 VALUE CREATION PROJECT FOR “INGAPIRCA ARCHEOLOGICAL COMPLEX” THROUGH CULTURAL, HERITAGE AND ARCHEOLOGICAL PRESERVATION OF THE SITE AND STRENGTHENING OF LOCAL CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT. EL CAÑAR (CONGOPE), ECUADOR

The project OF CREATION OF VALUE FOR linking the Ingapirca community within the “INGAPIRCA ARCHEOLOGICAL COMPLEX” cultural development of the site, the parish THROUGH THE CULTURAL, HERITAGE AND and the province. ARCHEOLOGICAL PRESERVATION OF THE SITE AND THE STRENGTHENING OF LOCAL Ingapirca is a parish belonging to the Cañar CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, is a project canton of the province of the same name, developed by the National Institute of Cultural located in the southern part of the Sierra Heritage and the Prefecture of Cañar del region of Ecuador. Its population, mostly Ecuador with local institutions and links with indigenous and mestizo, has been part of the the community. The Ingapirca Archaeological Ingapirca Complex’s historical and cultural Complex is the best preserved archaeological legacy that has existed since Inca and pre- site in all of Ecuador and one of the most Columbian times, giving renown to the Canari important in South America. In this way, culture and its people. The Cañar Prefecture with the objective of managing, conserving, and the INPC have seen it necessary to recovering and restoring the Ingapirca recover this historical legacy through cultural Archaeological and Cultural Complex, the promotion that promotes the tourist and INPC through Executive Decree No. 507 productive development of the area where dated October 11, 2010, is in charge of the the cultural factor is a fundamental pillar of administration of the site through the project sustainable development. For this, they have mentioned, with the aim of providing technical been managing cultural and craft fairs through management of the archaeological site for its the Ingapirca Fest where thousands of young preservation and conservation over time and people take a journey through history and have developed insitu knowledge.

23 APART TOGETHER – INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON ART, IDEAS, AND BORDERS SAN JOSÉ DE CÚCUTA, COLOMBIA

APART TOGETHER is the civic response by most active border in Latin America under the region’s art community to the current such circumstances. The closure of the global migration emergency at the Colombia border followed by its slow, partial reopening and Venezuela border region, between Cúcuta have led to an unprecedented humanitarian and San Antonio del Táchira, historically the crisis in the region, splitting up families and communities in an area characterized by a historic opportunity for development, as well strong bond and sense of kinship, where, as both social and territorial restructuring. rather than symbolizing separation, the border had always been a place for coming together. It is a city-wide project whose core aim is to revitalize the four heritage buildings dedicated APART TOGETHER was started with the to culture so they can house four exhibitions on goal of making Cúcuta into the epicentre thematic mapping around the border issue. In of an international meeting on art, ideas, addition, there is an audio-visual element which and borders. The proposal is that the city, includes workshops and conferences, on-site whose history and everyday reality have been creation, and research processes, events held defined by its location near the border, must in public spaces, and mediation programs for move beyond surviving the border crisis. the whole population. Internationally recognized Instead, Cúcuta will lead a transnational artists and thinkers participate in dialogue process of debate and reflection on the border with regional authors who address border and migration, emphasizing the value of its issues, generating coexistence, dialogue, and identity through dialogue with the world, knowledge transfer related to communities, all transforming the economic downturn into a of which involves the active citizen participation.

THIRTY YEARS OF CONSTRUCTION AND TRANSFORMATION 24 DONOSTIA/SAN SEBASTIAN, BASQUE COUNTRY, SPAIN

In 1987 the standardization of city cultural budget of more than 30 million Euros, and an policy began when the Boards of San Telmo, investment per citizen of about 200 Euros. Of Castillo de la Mota, and Monte Urgull (April the city’s 186,000 inhabitants, 107,000 are 21, 1986), the Municipal Board of Libraries members of Donostia Kultura. This network of and Cultural Centres (June 24, 1986), and 20 libraries, 10 cultural centres, four theatre the Board of Theatres and Festivals (August venues, and five museums, all in a medium- 6, 1987). Four years later in 1990, the sized city helps to highlight the collaboration three Boards came together to create the that exists between a well-funded public Municipal Board of Culture. Since then, this sector and a civil society with more than body has led and managed the cultural policy 700 agents and cultural institutions. This is of San Sebastian. This year marks the 30th particularly special because San Sebastian anniversary of a project that has transformed suffered from violence throughout the city the city in a number of ways by placing culture during the 1980s and 1990s . In response, at the centre of governance. The importance the city fully committed to investing in culture, of culture has grown significantly, and this is which enabled it to establish the peaceful clear in the following examples. Today, there atmosphere it has today. Culture has also are more than 300 professionals working in fostered an active, participatory, and critically the public sector (about 220 for the Municipal engaged citizenry that is aware of everything Department of Culture), with an allocated that occurs in their community. 25 DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL CULTURE COMPANY DUBLIN, IRELAND

In 2018, the Jury of the UCLG Leading PARTICIPATION Cities Award gave special mention to Dublin • Made and did things with 15,319 people City Council’s Dublin’s Culture Connects, • Created 345 cultural projects “This initiative is based on people’s stories, wishes and experiences. This is a very • Welcomed 41,800 visitors to 14 solid, innovative programme that contributes Henrietta Street in 16 months of opening to cultural empowerment and which has • We welcomed 3,461 people to 220 shown the importance of listening, learning Culture Clubs and sharing with local inhabitants. It also PARTNERSHIP proves that, where willingness exists, cultural policies can be useful to those who most • Collaborated with 274 community groups need them.” • Worked with 269 artists • We made projects within 501 cultural Dublin City Council Culture Company partnership across organisations (DCCCC), formed by the Council in March 2018 continues this work. Starting from RELEVANCE year-round conversations with the people of • Listened, learned and connected with Dublin, we ask them about culture and the people across the city city and put their responses front and centre. • Ran 145 open consultation sessions This ‘people first’ methodology underpins the CAPACITY-BUILDING development and delivery of all programmes. The people of Dublin, their voice and their • Facilitated 929 creative workshops stories remain at the centre of all that we • Arranged 93 training sessions do whether we are running a museum, developing an intelligence project or making QUALITY a creative project. • 14 Henrietta Street - European Museum of the Year Award 2020 nominee Our values - Participation, Partnership, • Your Tenement Memories - recipient Relevance, Capacity Building and Quality - Council of Europe / European Heritage guide what we do and how we do it. Days Stories award In 2018 and 2019: • “If you identify with a place it gives you a sense of belonging” Participant, The National Neighbourhood MUSEUM DOOR DE STAD / MUSEUM IN THE CITY 26 EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS

Museum door de Stad travels through the city Museum door de Stad really brings the history of Eindhoven with installations inspired by and stories of Eindhoven to its inhabitants the Eindhoven Museum’s cultural-historical with pop-up installations. They partner with collection and the history of the city itself. different events that take place in the city of They aim to present and teach the public Eindhoven to reach a diverse audience, such about the heritage and the story of Eindhoven, as Dutch Design Week and Dutch Technology stimulating the people to think about the past Week, but also the annual fair and the and future of the city and engaging with it. They Christmas festival. Their aim is to make the work with themes such as freedom, mobility public aware of where the city and its cultural and food. They invited designers to take the identity comes from and where we as a society history of Eindhoven and the Eindhoven are going. Museum’s cultural-historical collection as their starting points and created installations Museum door de Stad can be translated in that interact with the public. They make use English in different ways. It is a museum that of objects in the collection in various different travels through the city, is visible in the city, ways, and do likewise in the ways in which but is also created by the city. they convey information, highlight collection items and collect data.

CITIZEN CULTURE - A LOCAL INVESTMENT 27 IN REGIONAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT EL CARMEN DE VIBORAL, COLOMBIA

In its 2016 - 2026 Municipal Culture Plan on how to live within and occupy spaces. The 2016 -2026, “A Place to Live the Good Life”, main principle must be the access and use El Carmen de Viboral aims to “promote a of common goods such as economic, natural, territory that values and protects its cultural cultural, and environmental resources for and natural heritage as part of its overall rural and urban communities. The goal is identity. It must strive to enable different types to recognize and value culture as a factor in of expression, lend visibility to various artistic human, social, economic, urban, and regional and cultural forms, recognize and support local development.” identities and cultural rights, and empower the existence of harmonious relationships between Today the city celebrates as it moves closer to people and communities. The plan must also making El Carmen de Viboral a place where emphasize dialogue, communication, and people can live the Good Life. The city has a participation in finding collective agreements new social and regional policy that is also a local cultural policy, the El Carmen de Viboral as preserves its historical, anthropological, 2017 - 2027 Basic Land Management Plan and artistic heritage. It protects its natural (PBOT). In this plan, culture takes a central resources, its lush green landscape, and role in territorial management, and directly rural lifestyle that ensures sustainability for influences the Land Management Model. the local population, based on a model of Vision: “In 2027, El Carmen de Viboral will be comprehensive human development that recognized as a key municipality in the region, promotes good living habits to all its residents.” with an active citizenry that lives its culture, safeguards its identity and traditions, as well

28 CITIZENSHIP COURSES & TOP CITIZEN FESTIVAL HAMEDAN, IRAN

Ethics, law-abiding, creative, diligent and future. In this regard and aiming to honour responsible citizens are the cultural, social those whose existence and presence are and human assets of any society. It is honoured and affect the community in many indisputable that the community enjoys and different areas and levels, the municipality and utilizes them more in the process of developing the Islamic City Council of Hamedan, referring and improving the quality of social life. to the role of the Shura Councils and their Therefore, the municipality of Hamadan has duties, especially in Article 71 of Article 71 been conducting citizenship training courses of the Shura Law, has put their celebration on since 2003 and raising the level of awareness the agenda in a program called the Hamadan of the target community (male and female Festival of Senior Citizens since 2018. students of elementary schools, housewives and retirees) about how the municipality spent Therefore, Hamadan citizens (all residents of on municipal management such as: pavement Hamadan city, whether native or non-native) and asphalt roads, garbage transportation, can apply for free registration at the festival’s separation of garbage from home, green website, by submitting their documents and space and maintenance and firefighting, etc. presenting to the secretariat of the festival, as so ultimately have responsible citizens in the Finalize their registration.

29 HUECHURABA ARTS AND TALENT SCHOOL HUECHURABA, CHILE

During the second half of 2017, the first youth talent throughout the community Huechuraba Youth Talent contest was in order to safeguard cultural and artistic launched. Its aim was to search for hidden heritage. During 2018, the second stage of the project began with the Talent School. community. They should feel able to open their Thanks to a significant turnout and range of doors to the neighbourhood, and find a place participants, permanent and daily classes or where they can explore their own artistic skills, workshops across various disciplines were meet people with the same (dis)abilities, and organized for singing, dance, and theatre, create a support and companionship group helping make great strides in the expressive based on art and culture. and artistic quality of the participants. In 2020 the city will aim to continue its The Pre-Talent, Youth Talent, and Inclusive education programs. It will add Adult and Arts programs for girls, boys, adolescents, Senior Talent classes to provide all residents and adults with varying cognitive, motor and with a space for training and interaction where sensory disabilities were all offered separately they can express themselves and develop to help people express themselves with their their skills, regardless of age. The school also voice, body, and emotions through play, a includes a music area where training will be fundamental tool for any inclusive process. It conducted similar to an artistic company, is essential for local policy that all residents centred on interdisciplinary work in the in feel included in each program aimed at the staging of performances.

TERRACOTTA CITY 30 JATIWANGI, MAJALENGKA, WEST JAVA, INDONESIA

Terracotta City is a regional planning project Jatiwangi art Factory through its a network proposed by the community of citizens to that is connected with artists, architects, the Majalengka regional government. A long- designers, ceramics, offering a diversification term aspiration of the Jatiwangi art Factory of terracotta products beside roof tile that regarding how the community can take a role meet market demand. The diversification in the development of the Jatiwangi region is primarily an architectural element. The considering the geographical context for Majalengka regional government then decades is the locus of the tile industry, and made regulations governing: first, rules and also the efficiency of the material, --- which protection of traditional terracotta industries. is currently projected as an industrial city by Complete with ecological considerations and the government. This project encourages the market protection. Second, the government government to use local terracotta materials through its development projects is the main produced by traditional industries which consumer of these products, so that the local currently has a sharp decline in production. knowledge and material-based economy can The traditional tile industry is unable to continue to compete in the midst of the rapid compete in the market, due to the large development of the city of Majalengka towards number of non-clay tile suppliers whose the manufacturing industry. prices are much cheaper. 31 DANCING CITY JINJU: FOLK DANCE DISSEMINATION PROJECT JINJU, REPUBLIC OF KOREA

In September 2016, the City of Jinju “deotbaegi dance” and the “sword dance.” The adopted a new urban development policy former is a unique folk dance, popular with that highlighted culture as the city’s fourth the people, and the latter is a dance originally administrative pillar, along with society, the enjoyed by the aristocracy. These two dances economy and the environment. However, are taught in both community centers and analysis revealed that the city lacked cultural after-school programmes. In the former, classes infrastructure, the industrialization of cultural are provided to citizens using 30 community assets was at a rudimentary level and there centers in order to expand cultural services were few international artistic or cultural and promote artistic activities in the city; in exchanges. the latter, folk dances are taught in after-school programmes at primary and secondary schools Nevertheless, Jinju has a strong record of with the aim of helping children experience preserving and transmitting its traditional the beauty of local culture and discover their cultural assets. It has eight Important creative talents at an early age. Intangible Cultural Properties, including Jinju Nongak (Farmer’s Performance), Jinju Based on this strategy, a project to promote Geommu (Sword Dance) and Jinju Ogwangdae Jinju’s folk dances to all its citizens, including (Mask Dance Drama). Therefore, in order to vulnerable social groups such as children, the overcome its weak points and take advantage elderly and multicultural families, was initiated of its strengths, the city initiated a grassroots in 2017, and was expanded to the crafts field cultural project to standardize Jinju’s folk in 2018. This project has contributed to the dances so that anyone can learn them and development of citizens’ cultural rights, has then to promote this dance to all its citizens. helped reduce cultural gaps between regions and classes and has created a cultural industry From its wide range of cultural practices ecosystem. and traditions, Jinju chose to promote the

32 “CHANGSIN-SUNGIN SEWING VILLAGE, URBAN REGENERATION DRESSED IN CULTURE-ART, WITH RESIDENTS STANDING FIRST!!” JONGNO-GU, SEOUL, REPUBLIC OF KOREA

“Changsin-Sungin Sewing Village, Urban is considered as an ideal example of public- Regeneration Dressed in Culture-Art” Project private cooperation utilizing local cultural has promoted sustainable development with assets and industrial heritage. revitalizing deteriorated sewing industry and rejuvenating the local community. This project Once a major hinterland of Korea’s garment industry, Changsin-Sungin region had flourished with more than 3,000 domestic For culture-led urban regeneration in this sewing factories until the ‘00s. Yet being region, Jongno-gu and Seoul worked together pursued by Chinese manufacturing to improve local environments. To reduce alternatives, Changsin-Sungin lost its edge cultural divide, cultural facilities such as and eventually fell behind. Many residents lost a playground shaped after sewing tools, a hope for the future and left the community. sewing museum, community centers, and media artist Nam June Paik Museum were As the neighborhood turned into a shanty built. town, government planned to demolish and rebuild the whole region. This plan, however, The residents also stood forward. Taking made the remaining residents who cherish advantage of the facilities, people have formed their neighborhood hold together, ended up diverse autonomous organizations including being called off. community council and local radio station. Classes to learn sewing skill from local sewing To improve the quality of life and preserve the masters are also offered to visitors. local spirit, Jongno-gu government suggested to apply for national urban regeneration The most significant achievement of this program and explained the meaning of it. project is about the residents who rediscovered After long debates, the residents decided to the value of the community once perceived as engage in. Thanks to the passion of locals, in a slum. With elevated pride and affection, the 2014, this region was designated as Korea’s residents are creating their own new values first urban regeneration site. out of these achievements.

“DEVELOPMENT OF KASHAN WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF LOCAL 33 REPRESENTATIVES AND TRUSTED PEOPLE” KASHAN, IRAN

Known as one of the most popular and social participation through holding a meeting projects of recent decades of Kashan, the key with the mayor and the selection of about project of “development of Kashan with the 12 to 20 trustees by the authorities of participation of local trustees” was designed the municipal districts. and operated, hope to pave the way for • To Study the needs of urban districts sustainable development of Kashan. through the meeting and consultation of district authorities; create dynamic It was designed and prepared in 4 operational interaction between citizens and city phases, each of which is outlined as follow: managers, identify key issues and • To provide guidelines for cooperation with estimate the financial cost of the social capitals and determine the duties proposed project by managers and of the appointed committees including deputies of the five municipal districts. city managers; describe the necessity of • To study the feasibility of proposed • To document participatory planning and needs and review proposed projects record details of the actions, evaluate the of trustees, present projects to the city project through the assessment of citizens’ council to approve the required budget, satisfaction with implemented projects, implement the plan in accordance with appreciate local trustees for the presence the prioritization of the trustees in the and assistance during the process, and three months, six months, and one institutionalize and consolidate the year periods and monitor the process of partnership process in accordance with implementation of the project. the achievements and results.

34 THE HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP OF NATIONS: EMBRACING CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF KAZAN KAZAN, RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, culture and develop friendly relations between is Russia’s most multicultural city and one multinational associations of the city and the of the brightest examples of how people of region. Since 2005, the House of Friendship more than 115 nationalities can prevent their of Nations is a state institution interacting cultural identity and live in one city peacefully, with 200 national cultural associations. in an atmosphere of friendliness and tolerance. The House of Friendship of Nations has a For generations and over 1,000 years, our unique information web portal, consisting of people have been passing on a caring attitude 36 independent sites of the national cultural towards their cultural heritage treated as the associations available in the native language spiritual, cultural, economic and social capital of each ethnic diaspora. This is unique internet of irreplaceable value. project in Russia. Since 2012 the new 5-floor building of the organization includes not only The drastic increase in the volume of offices of the national communities but also information as well as in its distribution speed library, information centre, «Tatarstan is Our has made it much easier to assimilate elements Home» magazine editorial office, conference of cultures and ideas from other countries into room, concert hall and museum. our daily life. However, it has also become difficult to maintain an original culture of each The House of Friendship of Nations is an region. We may lose our regional identities important resource centre and the main stage and uniqueness. for the realisation of Tatarstan’s nationalities policy. Throughout years the House of An important initiative in this area is the Friendship of Nations is contributing to House of Friendship of Nations that was cultural life of the region in countless ways. created with the aim to maintain original TRADITIONAL DAFA MUSIC 35 KIRTIPUR, KATHMANDU, NEPAL

Nepal is a Country with different tribe growth in early 18th century (the era of malla community, language and culture. Kathmandu king) with royal patronage Newar commumity the capital of Nepal is the city where Newar are continuing and till tody its art form. In community are living from the ancient time Dafa, Rhythm instruments are mostly used Newar community is kwon as more civilized sueh as khin (typical Newari Drum), metal and well cultured community , they are very rhythmic instrument called tinchhu Bubhu, rich in art, literature and music. Which are etc. popular worldwide. Music is a most important things for their religious and cultural life. From When they perform they sit in two different the time from birth to death, music is part of rows in both row, they play Rhythm khin and their lives. There are different kind of music, sing the song turn off by turn by both group. and among them Dafa music is most popular. Accordingly to the time, season, festivals and Dafa music is the devotional art form in which celebration of their life cycles, they perform singers and musicians perform based on different kinds of dafa. Dafa is a classical Art classical raga and taal system. The music is form In dafa, different rhythm (time signature) performed by a group of musicians called Dafa are used in one song. We can find more than khalah (group) in the place called dabu and nine different rhythm pattern in one song falcha (public place) this art form in the oldest which is very rare and different form World surviving devotional music of Nepal, with its music there songs are still in practice and origin in the 17th century which was seen people perform here.

MEVLANA CULTURE VALLEY 36 KONYA, TURKEY

Konya has always been a historical city buildings and artefacts at the very centre of which is the birthplace of city civilization the city. Konya Metropolitan Municipality with its history of 9000 years. Neolithic has adopted a strategy to protect this historic site of Catalhoyuk, the place where the first fabric of the city. Therefore it has started a settlement found so far is located in Konya rehabilitation and rehabilitation project at the and is inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage. very centre of the city. The project is called Konya was the capital of Seljuk Empire for more Mevlana Culture Valley. than 200 years. There are lots of historical 37 SUSTAINABLE FUTURE CITIES: ENHANCING THE CO-CREATED APPROACH FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF ANDAMAN CULTURE KRABI, THAILAND

Krabi has set its long-term vision to become analysis of the critical issues and sustainable an outstanding sustainable and smart city. potentials. These issues provided justifications The project was a co-created initiative to derive future city and its strategic direction. between diverse stakeholders in the city. Local culture and craftsmanship were The aim is to create an interactive platform, identified, an exchange of new ideas between upon which inter-generation within the city different generations were encouraged and could exchange dialogue to recognize and to tested to create positive changes for the regenerate the economic dimension of local city. Museum, café with a showcase of local culture. The planning team was established produces and information about community- as a “sustainable brain bank” of the city with based tourism have been re-created into the support from a team of experts to envision the existing space. This spatial re-designed is promotion of local culture as a factor in the aimed to provide an open space for a group creation of community-based development. of diverse generations to share their view on This co-created teamwork strives to achieve how to advance local tradition and together good local governance where locals could take they have created a set of brand essence to control of their own future in a sustainable promote Andaman culture. Andaman Cultural manner. Centre has since been promoted as a creative space to achieve continuity of dialogue for A creative open space was re-designed/re- sustainable future city. Continuity of the configured based on an extensive integrated project enables new ideas to be generated.

38 ROUTES AND PATHS TO DISCOVER WITH FAMILY HAVANA, CUBA

Routes and Paths is a public program the museum was one of the main destinations organized by the Office of the Historian of for visitors. the City of Havana (OHcH) that focuses on outreach to Cuban families for museums, Since it was founded in 1938, the Office of which house the rich heritage of Havana’s the Historian has helped fuel and continue the Historic Centre, and for the practical issues entire institutional tradition of communicating facing the restoration of Old Havana. It is also the importance of heritage. The project a participatory communication strategy that is based on new approaches to museum arose out of the need to offer an attractive collections and heritage pieces, which focuses option to the large numbers of people who on the interrelationship between the museum visit during the summer, particularly because and its visitors from a pluralistic and dynamic perspective. From a broad perspective, it views family as on the themes of their collections. The Paths or the fundamental core of our society, but it specialized tours of the area were added, which addresses the specific needs of each member. helped develop national cultural tourism.

Preceded by several sociocultural studies This was how the Routes and Paths to carried out in the Historic Centre, and backed Discover with Family project began. Over the by sociocultural analysis, the summer program years, it has continued to grow and diversify, was held in 2001 and initially included free and today thousands of families benefit from visits to museums along different routes based this initiative.

MUNICIPAL COMPETITION FUND FOR ARTS AND CULTURE 39 FOCUART - (PHASE I) LA PAZ, BOLIVIA

FOCUART is the first public fund in Bolivia, It aims to establish four significant changes: and it was created through co-management between the Municipal Government of La Paz Democratization of culture by increasing and organized civil society, with a Municipal citizen participation, while also considering Law that adopts a form of public policy geared assertive actions aimed at closing gaps in toward sustainability. Its main objective is to the access to equal participation; Promote promote plural, inclusive, and democratic a plurality of views on cultural initiatives cultural participation by strengthening with a focus on sustainability and the co- development for arts and culture, and management of cultural policy which views subsequently generating intercultural dialogue culture as the fourth pillar of sustainable on how to improve residents’ quality of life. development.

It includes four components: Democratization of culture which manifests as access to diverse forms of culture and artistic 1: Increase the plural, inclusive, and expression by focusing on geographical democratic participation of citizens in decentralization, inclusion, and intercultural arts and culture initiatives. dialogue. 2: Create spaces for intercultural dialogue, and promote access to cultural arts Promote ongoing learning both in the city and activities with a focus of decentralization. in other municipalities around the country. 3: Knowledge management and replicating Promote linking cultural projects with actions learning in other areas by the Autonomous Municipal 4: Joint undertakings on actions with other Government of La Paz, with a cross-cutting areas of the Autonomous Municipal approach to culture and art that also Government of La Paz emphasizes social innovation. 40 MAGAS-CRAFTSMEN TOWN MAGAS, INGUSHETIA, RUSSIAN FEDERATION

The project aims to revive traditional folk art of folk art. At the international festival and support of craftsmen in Magas, capital “Craftsmen town”, anyone can participate in of Ingushetia, and to create a unique creative artisan workshops from all over Caucasus, platform that ensures the preservation, revival as well as purchase unique products that and development of traditional folk arts and will become a wonderful decoration of one’s crafts of Ingushetia. We desire to promote the interior or an original and sincere gift for popularization of craft among young people, guests and tourists. revive the spirituality and cultural traditions

41 CULTURAL COLLABORATION ON CLIMATE MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM

10 years ago there was an idea, to bring the city’s zero carbon 2038 target. Manchester together Manchester’s cultural leaders to is leading the Urbact C-Change Transfer address the environmental performance Network supporting five European cities in of the city’s cultural organisations, in line establishing their own cultural collaboration with the ambitions of the city’s first climate on climate. And now, the council is looking at change strategy. Since an initial meeting in how to embed zero carbon in cultural funding 2011, the city’s cultural community has been and decision-making, as part of the work of working together through the Manchester Arts its new Zero Carbon Collaboration Group. In Sustainability Team (MAST) to understand this context MAST, the city’s Cultural Leaders its climate change impacts and to share and Group and the city council’s policy and culture mobilise climate action. teams are developing closer collaboration.

Today MAST brings together 35arts and The combination of MAST’s collaborative cultural organisations, from community-based approach –within but also beyond its sector arts centers and iconic cultural venues to and its city –in a city which recognises the an internationally renowned festival, across value of culture and is itself demonstrating Manchester and five other local authorities climate change leadership, has firmly in Greater Manchester. It is a member of established Manchester as leading example the Manchester Climate Change Partnership of cultural collaboration on climate action which, together with the Manchester Climate and engagement. Given Manchester’s climate Change Agency, oversees and champions emergency declaration in July 2019, the climate action in the city. MAST is developing sector’s role is even more important. a zero carbon culture action plan in line with CREATIVE CITY. SOCIAL SCIENCES FOR CITIZENS OF THE 21ST CENTURY 42 MAR DEL PLATA, GENERAL PUEYRREDON, ARGENTINA

“Creative City. Social Sciences for the 21st up to the task of training citizens of the 21st Century” is an educational project aimed at century. Not only must we study to use ICTs teachers, communicators, trainers, cultural as a tool and critical link, but we also must agents and citizens who are interested in address new, diverse and dynamic realities, learning about the meaning of living in a City while anchored in heritage and identity, in and Municipality engaged in Agenda 21 and order to transfer it in a way that awakens everything embedded with belonging to this interest, enthusiasm and passion for this organization, principles and actions. knowledge.

One of the key issues in building citizenship, That is why we called this programme governance and democratic life is the important “Creative City Educational Project. Social role of Cities and Local Governments at the global Sciences for the 21st Century”. level. For this reason, in 2011 General Pueyrredon’s Party adhered to Agenda 21 for Culture. Through the programme, we try to contribute to the knowledge and the linkage of current Citizens and teachers face the double challenge concepts for public policies such as Agenda of learning to live with the revolutionary or Program 21 Cultural Cities, Creative Cities changes of the end of the 20th century and and City of Knowledge. the 21st century, and providing children and young people with knowledge that will enable We believe this is very necessary for the them to have opportunities for personal and training of civil servants, communicators, collective development. teachers and young people who will be responsible for defining roles in exercising This second challenge puts us before the need citizenship in this 21st century. to explore, research and train ourselves to be

NETWORK OF ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL PRACTICES IN MEDELLÍN 43 MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA

The Network of Arts and Culture Practices is a there are about 160 training spaces where project by the Secretary of Citizen Culture for training is done to foster enjoyment and education the City Hall of Medellín that uses creative labs in the arts throughout every comuna (district) in dance, performing arts, fine art, visual arts, and corregimiento (township) in Medellín. music, and audio-visual skills to generate and strengthen processes of coexistence and citizen In its 24 years of existence, the project has culture for about 7800 children and youth. helped about 120,000 children and youth Between the Laboratories and Music Schools, find new options for life through art. The Network of Arts and Culture Practices is on arts and culture practices in infants, made up of the Dance Network, the Performing children, adolescents, and youth. The aim Arts Network, the Network of Fine and Visual is to ensure the cultural rights of these Arts, the Network of Music Schools, and the groups by providing them with the adequate Audio-visual Creation Network. This brings opportunities for expression, exchange, together different organizations and groups learning, and experimentation with different from around the city to work alongside the artistic, aesthetic, and cultural forms. municipal administration to revise policies

44 THE WHITE NIGHT. ART AT MAXIMUM MÉRIDA, MEXICO

The White Night is a cultural program that all artistic disciplines in galleries, museums, involves a number of different cultural, artistic, cultural centres, parks, and restaurants. Twice and citizen organizations in occupying various a year in May and December, and the festival public and private spaces. From 8:00 p.m. offers an average of over 40,000 free cultural to 2:00 a.m. Mérida is home to experiences experiences with works in all disciplines from that facilitate healthy citizen coexistence national, international, and local creative between residents and visitors. It involves a projects throughout the city. This May will melting pot of cultures and the enjoyment of mark the 13th time the city has held the event.

45 NATURE-BASED AND CULTURAL TOURISM AS A MEANS FOR RURAL REGENERATION: MYSIA WAYS NATURE, HISTORY AND CULTURE ROUTES NILÜFER, TURKEY

Mysia Ways Nature, History and Culture in Nilüfer district, very close to Bursa, the Routes is a project aiming at the promotion first capital of the Ottoman Empire. The of rural tourism as a means for alternative natural geography of Nilüfer is defined by sustainable development in the rural West Uludağ (Olympus) mountain, Uluabat areas of Nilüfer district. The countryside lake recognized as a wetland protected by the of Nilüfer is adjacent to Bursa, a dynamic Ramsar Convention, and the Bithynian plain Turkish metropolis with more than 3 million in North-Western Turkey. population and new and rapidly expanding urban residential and industrial regions. Mysia Ways Nature, History and Culture Important historical settlements such as the Routes project consists of trekking, cycling ancient town Apollonia on the Rhyndacus and horse riding routes connecting Nilüfer and the Ottoman village of Misi are located rural settlements to the urban centre. The project includes printed and digital guiding project financed by EU in the framework of and promotional material, cultural walks and “Towntwinning Action between Turkey and culture activities in the routes, supported the EU” programme, in cooperation with its by Nilüfer rural cultural policy implemented partners in Greece and Lithuania. In the context with photography , literature and history of IRD project Nilüfer Municipality established museums and their outdoors activities located “Rural Tourism Hub” in the village of Misi in Nilüfer rural settlements. Moreover Nilüfer for the more effective management of Mysia Municipality cooperates with civil society Ways project, while https://irdtowntwinning. organizations of its rural area in organizing com/en/rural-tourism/nilufer-municipality/ rural tourism activities and establishing of and https://mysia.irdtowntwinning.com/en/ rural tourism service facilities. web sites have been instituted under IRD project digital Gateway supporting the works Lastly, Nilüfer Municipality is the coordinator of Nilüfer Municipality on rural, nature-based of “Innovation for Rural Development (IRD)” and cultural tourism.

5TH MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE ON CULTURE IN NITERÓI 46 NITERÓI, RJ, BRAZIL

Through the Municipal Department of encourage debate about cultural rights within Cultures, the city of Niterói hosted the 5th communities, territories, and the artistic Municipal Conference on Culture between and cultural sectors across the city. The November 2019 and April 2020. Its focus was conferences approved proposals and elected on “Culture and Democracy: Implementing the delegates for the final plenary meeting of Municipal Culture Plan”. The conference is an the 5th Conference. This included a set of intense process of participatory democracy as proposals and guidelines to direct the city’s well as popular and community mobilization cultural policies over the next 10 years. around public policies on culture and the exercise of cultural rights. In addition to the stages of direct participation, 5th Conference opened with the International In just over 4 months, the 5th Conference Seminar on Culture and Democracy, which held 50 direct public participation events, brought together prestigious names in cultural including free conferences that were focused management from throughout Latin America, on sectoral and territorial issues, among including countries such as Argentina, Chile, others. The purpose of these events is to Ecuador, and Colombia. 47 “CITY DAY” NIZHNY NOVOGOROD, RUSSIAN FEDERATION

The new conception of celebrating the City the festival of city food markets, the festival Day focuses on the wide range of citizens’ of music groups, the festival of sails, motors interests. The celebration program included and air balloons, the festival of fireworks, the 10 festivals on different themes. They were: workshop of street theaters. The city citizens the festival of city fishing, the festival of beach became not only the audience, but also the sports, the festival of historical quests and participants thanks to the interactive part of reconstructions, the festival of city dances, the the festivals. festival of films and video clips about the city,

48 NOVOSIBIRSK. TURNING THE CITY INTO A MUSEUM: NEW STAGE NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Novosibirsk City Museum presents a large- 1. Thematic street photo exhibitions, being scale project “Novosibirsk: turning the city into displayed year-round in the streets of the museum. New stage”. The goal of the project city and in the subway. Annually five new is to meet the interest of people: to take a street photo exhibitins are scheduled to museum out of its building and use modern move around the city’s districts and five technologies in order to turn the city into a photo exhibitions are organized in the metro. museum itself making its streets museum In 2018-2019 two thematic metro train halls, buildings – exhibits, and citizens – exibitions such as “This is NEW” (about the listeners and storytellers. The project is aimed modern city) and “Theater in motion” (the at promoting local historical heritage in the history of city theaters) were organized. modern urban space. 2. Public historical projects. On the annual Project implementation period is 2012-2022. basis the Civil action “The Candle of Memory” and the International action During the first stage of the project that was “Night of museums” are held in historical completed in 2017 we have created a common places of the city. Public historical external interface for the museum’s output. and cultural events organized by the Novosibirsk City Museum have become At the second stage of the project we want ingrained into the life of Novosibirsk City to involve as many residents of our city as attracting a large number of citizens, possible in activities of this interface and visitors, journalists and bloggers. The vivid make the history of the city the main local presentation of local history through new idea of Novosibirsk, its symbol of faith. information technologies and classical The main directions of the project: music catches the constant interest of the audience. On May 8, 2019 more than City Museum works out the concept of a 10 thousand people came to participate special mobile app for migrants that will in the action “The Candle of Memory”. guide them into the social life of the city The total number of participants of public and allow them to adjust into the cultural historical projects during the project environment, learn about the history of period was more than 52,000 people. the city, and share the values of the local population. The app will be developed in 3. Virtual history is represented by a series the native languages of large groups of of innovative security plates on the migrants-Uzbeks, Tadjiks, and Kazakhs. buildings-monuments of Novosibirsk The agreement on joint development using QR-code; by the project “Maps of of such an application was signed with Chronicles” on the popular electronic map Novosibirsk State Technical University, of 2GIS. Annually, four videos are created one of the leading Russian universities in within the project “Video walks around the field of computer science. the city” and are posted on YouTube channel. Developing electronic projects, 4. City tours. These are multi-format excursions the Novosibirsk City Museum is going that should change the idea of the residents to launch projects on virtualization of about excursion as a boring and predictable the city’s memorial space in 2020. The event. Despite weather conditions in Siberia Novosibirsk Museum staff have started the Novosibirsk City Museum organizes developing a mobile app that will allow year-round tours using large public and to “liven up” historical and architectural industrial spaces where people can walk monuments, explain the meaning of for a long time and stay warm. River tours individual architectural elements and along the Ob river are the most popular. symbols, and even make the monuments In 2018-2019 the Novosibirsk City “talk” to people telling their stories. The Museum launched excursions for people first monument to be liven up will be the with disabilities and excursions with an monument to Vladimir Lenin on the main animator-guide who appears in the image of city square. Moreover, the Novosibirsk a man representing his epoch.

ART NOUVEAU ORADEA - ORADEA LIFE NOUVEAU 49 OREDEA, ROMANIA

Art Nouveau Oradea - Oradea Life Nouveau, to important European infrastructure routes, is brand and policy statement at the consolidating and developing the cultural city same time. The policy through the local and old centre in a city with more than 900 development strategy has the overall objective years of history. of developing: the local economy, increasing the living standard and public services, The overall objectives of the policy are investing in infrastructure, connecting the city set out in the development strategy with crosscutting measures that affect a vast - Development of tourist anchors in the city array of target groups and policies. The centre; strategy section dedicated to consolidating - Supporting the durable development of the cultural life of the city has a focus area the economic sector in the city centre by over the old city centre of Oradea and is a enforcing a dedicated local legislation; coordinated set measures, local legislation - Developing a cultural agenda that and projects that affect directly the overall suits the brand positioning and takes activity of the city centre and indirectly the advantage of the local heritage. city and metropolitan area. A smaller scale version of the general strategy the strategic Oradea is a dynamic city with a population pillar of consolidating and developing the of around 220.000 inhabitants and a steady cultural city and old centre of Oradea sets growth for the last 12 years by attracting out 6 major programs: more than 500 million euros from EU - Restauration of the specific old city funding therefore in some years doubling architecture; the investment budget of the city. Another - Extending pedestrian areas and creating development method the city has adopted walk friendly areas in the city centre; was supporting programs, legislation for the creation of over 5000 new jobs in the last 10 - Constructing compact parking spaces, years and supporting new business sectors, cycle paths and developing a strict Tech Industry and Tourism. parking policy for the city centre;

50 PANORAMA 1326 BURSA CONQUEST MUSEUM OSMANGAZI, TURKEY

Bursa has always been in an important place the educational, interactive, communicative throughout the history due to its location on and exhibitive activities in the museum in a transportation and trade roads between three holistic approach. continents. Having been a critical trade center throughout the centuries, Bursa was declared Important concepts considered in the designing as the first capital of Ottoman Empire after its phase are the interaction with the physical, conquest. This historical identity of the city has sociocultural and natural environment, the always been underlined by the local governments usage of renewable and sustainable energy and this is among our main missions, too. and the creation of a landmark for the city.

Taking this into a consideration, building a It is targeted to contribute to the promotion of spectacular museum depicting the conquest Bursa, which is prominent with its historical of Bursa had become inevitable. With regard and cultural richness, as brand city in the to the sustainable historical and cultural field of tourism within the future projections heritage of the city, it was aimed to design through the panoramic museum project we have carried out as Osmangazi Municipality The distinguishing features of Panorama 1326 within Kızyakup Kent Park. It is aimed that Bursa are its respect to the cultural values, “Panorama Museum Project” would be a its dynamo-like function for the cultural life cultural dynamo for Bursa. of Bursa, the collaboration between university and municipality, its R&D characteristics, its Bearing the characteristics of an ecological and potential for the urban development in terms sustainable building concept, energy-efficiency of tourism and its energy and environment is designated as an overarching target for being friendly design as a public building. entitled to “green building certification”.

COMMUNITY THEATRE 51 PACHUCA DE SOTO, HIDALGO, MÉXICO

The community theatre program is a group spaces where citizens can be involved in the made up of children, youth, and adults from performing arts regardless of their social status throughout Pachuca, and led by a theatre or age. The other aim is to reconstruct the social teacher who oversees performances staged fabric of the city by establishing activities for across the city. The program seeks to create healthy intergenerational coexistence.

“THE GREAT MAGICAL TOWN OF PAPANTLA MAGIC TOWN” - 52 LIMAKSTUM CHALHKGATNAW PAPANTLA DE OLARTE, VERACRUZ, MÉXICO

“Papantla Magical Town” is a flagship program Regional Tourism Development and Magical led by Mexico’s Secretariat of Tourism, which Towns (PRODERMÁGICO) Program”, is run by each municipal government. Papantla which has allowed it to improve its tourism was given the title of a Magical Town in 2006, infrastructure, revitalize public squares and which it lost in 2009, regained in 2012, main roads, strengthen community supply and reaffirmed in 2017. The Papantla de chains, focus on Totonac culture including the Olarte de Veracruz City Council oversees the Cumbre Tajín and the Voladores de Papantla, process. The goal of the program is to promote as well as safeguard tangible and intangible sustainable cultural tourism development Totonac culture (Centre for Indigenous Arts in Papantla, by focusing on its historical and 16 education centres focused on the architecture, exceptional natural landscapes, preservation of Totonac culture). traditions and knowledge rooted in the local Totonac culture, and the town’s location within Other activities for the sustainability of the a protected natural area. The program receives program include an ongoing campaign to raise an annual budget through the “Sustainable awareness and disseminate Totonac heritage, such as recognition for the practices and with the state government at several Federal customs of the Totonac Indigenous peoples; Ministries, as well as with local, national, and preservation of the millennium-old culture of international tour operators or companies. wise Totonac elders; courses in the Totonac There is also close collaboration with the language for men, women, and children; Universidad Veracruzana Intercultural, vanilla workshops; organic orchards with local Totonacapan campus, which provides social produce that is sold in local organic markets. scientific knowledge, connections with students for internships and courses, as well At the institutional level, the “Papantla as technical assistance. Magical Town” program has partnerships

53 THE “PEÑALOLÉN IS CULTURE” PLAN: COMMUNITY-WIDE CULTURAL CITIZENSHIP PEÑALOLÉN, SANTIAGO, CHILE

The PEÑALOLÉN IS CULTURE PLAN was The Formarte Program incorporates artistic created in 2016 and its goal is to link disciplines into the curriculum of 8 public Cultural Policy under the Cultural Corporation schools in the commune. The Cultural Focal of Peñalolén with the other municipal Points Program re-imagines 18 neighbourhood public policies: Safety, Education, and spaces as cultural centres in microcosm, Entrepreneurship. This is to be achieved with implementing workshops on traditional skills, a plan that decentralizes cultural initiatives training in cultural management, and arts throughout the 5 sectors of the commune that events. The Tañi Cheguen Route develops have the highest indices for vulnerability in a sustainable associative network between Peñalolén. The aim is to ensure that these the cultural corporation and Indigenous communities have access to cultural goods communities. The goal is to take an innovative and services within a sustainable cultural approach to local tourism with educational development processes that is based on the tours promoting ICH that is connected to the identity and cultural diversity of the territories. expressions, techniques, and world views of the Mapuche culture. The Diploma in To do so, the city has developed partnerships Socio-Cultural, Regional, and Cultural Policy between the stable areas of the Cultural Management offers annual scholarships Corporation, such as Education (Formarte to 15 leaders, artists, and community Program), Neighbourhoods, (Focos de managers for university education, thereby Cultura Program), Tourism and Intangible professionalizing territorial management. All Cultural Heritage [ICH] (Ruta Tañi Chegen), these programs help to strengthen the social and Projects (Diploma in Socio-Cultural and cultural fabric of the commune, given that Management), thus creating an innovative over 70,000 inhabitants have participated in connection between cultural institutions, its short 4-year history. territories, and their communities. CULTURE AS A DRIVER OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: 54 SOCIAL POLICY IN THE CITY OF PINCOURT PINCOURT, QUÉBEC, CANADA

Pincourt is a town with a population of about for projects, or contributions from various 15,000 people located on the outskirts of partners. Montreal that has grown rapidly in recent years. Inhabited by many cultural communities, it Two action plans have so far come from faces a number of social issues including local policies. It is overseen by a monitoring life and a sense of belonging. committee made up of four citizens involved with the current action plan, two principals The Social Development Policy was adopted from schools or early childhood centres, as in 2013 and is a citizen participation well as community, economic, and cultural approach aimed at improving quality of actors, with a total of twenty organizations or life for residents. It allows community committees. members to identify needs and solutions for themselves through collective intelligence. Many of the objectives under this action The policy incorporates culture into each of plan are achieved through culture, with the its intervention strategies as a driver of social organization of about 2000 cultural activities cohesion, particularly in interculturality, urban attracting more than 10,000 participants. design, youth, and health through cultural There has been a notable of educational and mediation and citizen involvement. Projects social success, a strengthening in senses and activities are developed and implemented of belonging, and the creation of places for by citizen committees, the municipality, calls movement and social cohesion.

THE DEATH IS A DREAM FESTIVAL 55 PUEBLA, MÉXICO

The Death is a Dream Festival, is celebrated collectives, and citizens, which provides people on one of the most iconic days in Mexico, the with high calibre cultural entertainment that Day of the Dead. This is one of the largest emphasizes traditions and folklore. traditional cultural celebrations in the country, and it has unique customs in Puebla. The festival represents the tradition of shrines and the importance of death in Mexican During the festival, the streets of Puebla are customs. This leads to unique forms of flooded with colour, art, tradition, and the great expression in gastronomy, fine art, dance, Parade of Calaveras (Skulls). Arts and culture theatre, and more, which all revolve around activities are carried out with the participation the theme of the DAY OF THE DEAD across of public and private institutions, organizations, the country. The main headquarters of the Festival is Municipal Pantheon, Boulevard Héroes 5 de in Zócalo in Puebla, but also includes the Mayo, and several streets of the 17 Auxiliary following public spaces: Paseo Bravo, Plaza Boards of the Municipality, depending on de la Democracia, Plaza Centenario Jardín where the festival is held each year. del Carmen, City Theatre, Barrio del Artista, Puente de Bubas, Puente de Ovando, Vicente The Death is a Dream Festival is held every Lombardo Toledano Park, Ecological Park, year and 2020 will mark the 13th anniversary.

56 CREATIVE 100 CULTURAL AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIAL PARK (CREATIVE 100) QINGDAO, CHINA

In the first decade of 21st century, Qingdao Therefore, under the policy promotion and faced the similar fate of many international big encouragement of the Qingdao Municipal cities: First, the weight of the manufacturing Government, the Creative 100 Cultural and industry in the social economy gradually Creative Industrial Park emerged. The old declined. The industrial center was transferring and discarded Qingdao Embroidery Factory, to the urban suburban industrial park and covering the construction area about 23000 the regional center of the county and town. square meters, was chosen to rewrite the Second, the industrial structure of developed destiny. Qingdao Qilong Group established the cities was inclined to the tertiary industry. Culture Co., Ltd. with the capital injection in December 2005, then started the construction The local government also noticed the problem. of the park. On October 24, 2006, Creative On March 20, 2006, “Implementation 100 Cultural and Creative Industrial Park Opinions of Qingdao Cultural Industry were given the title of “Qingdao Cultural Development Year 2006” was promulgated. Industry Demonstration Unit.” In November Qingdao should take the construction of 2007, the park was officially opened with 62 industrial park as a model -- highlight the enterprises. cluster effect of cultural industry, accelerate the characteristic process of urban cultural Transformed from the old factory, the fashion industry, and regard the construction of and creative industrial park is a successful characteristic industrial park as an important case of the conversion between the industrial content of the development of urban cultural manufacturing industry and the cultural industry. creative industry. RAMALLAH CITY OF MUSIC 57 RAMALLAH, PALESTINE

Ramallah is a relatively young city, unlike musical conventions that bring together more other ancient Palestinian cities established than 30 thousands from around Palestine only a few hundred years ago. Whereas the including city visitors, complementary to ancient cities exhibited clear and defined those already existing. “Ramallah City of urban features characterized by long Music” aims at: historical, social, and cultural traditions, • Building effective and responsible Ramallah remained free to develop more institutions at the city level and creating spontaneously. This unique situation allowed mechanisms that promote inclusion; the city to quickly find out and understand • Establishing international talent that only development which is based on solid development platforms and cross- foundations, including culture, will build a sectorial projects as well as global music truly modern smart city. Its rich tradition on the expos, in order to broaden and support one hand, and a vibrant contemporary music the global creative industries and set scene in hip-hop, electronic music and jazz on up exchange networks and share good the other caused Ramallah to naturally turn to practices. music as a factor of social transformation and development. Thanks to the comprehensive • Creating policies that support and balanced cultural policies of the city, it entrepreneurship, creativity and has become a home not only to many talented innovation. Ensuring education at every musicians, but also public cultural institutions level and professionalization of the sector. in Palestine, NGOs or educational centres. • Improving access, strengthening the Many prestigious and important music events possibilities to create and disseminate take place here. Identity, society and the spirit music and arts, and increase of Ramallah is expressed through music. participation in cultural life by building the Creative Hubs. The “Ramallah City of Music” program is an umbrella initiative implemented by the This comprehensive project has a chance Ramallah Municipality in order to coordinate to serve as good practice for other cities by the initiatives implemented by the music showing how systematic work can create good sector in the city, initiate cooperation between conditions for the development of music and different cultural centers and operators, as the local community focused around it, despite well as create new initiatives such as annual a difficult and unstable political situation. ADVANCING SDGS THROUGH CULTURAL HERITAGE 58 PROGRAMMING OF THE OFFICE OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

As the local municipal agency charged with OHP works in close collaboration with other protecting the cultural, environmental, and departments such as the World Heritage economic sustainability of the City of San Office, the Office of Sustainability, and the Antonio, the Office of Historic Preservation Solid Waste Management Department on has adopted an innovative, proactive various initiatives aligned with implementing approach to including the community as an the SDGs. OHP and WHO worked to develop active partner in heritage stewardship and methodology to map targets and goals to the future of heritage management at the City initiatives, which include things like the local level. Through engagement programs UNESCO City of Gastronomy programming, the including educational workshops, hands-on Vacant Building Program, the Living Heritage training, networking events, and celebrations, Program, and hands-on trades education. OHP reaches well over 10,000 participants Other significant programs advancing the annually. A demonstration of the department’s SDGs are Rehabarama, which is a hands- commitment to community service, these on volunteer trades education event where education and outreach efforts are achieved volunteers complete work to 20 homes in a successfully with limited staffing and annual single day; the Historic Homeowner Fair, which operating budget through local partnerships educations homeowners about stewardship and creative solutions. OHP combines these of their historic homes; our Living Heritage efforts with its successful historic and design program, which includes the successful review program which serves as a regional international Living Heritage Symposium; and and national model for local preservation our role in advancing the City’s Climate Action commissions. and Adaptation plan through initiatives such as Deconstruction and Climate Heritage.

59 COMPUTER CLUB HOUSE, SAN JOSE SOUTH - GIRLS ONLY: COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT FOR GIRLS AND PREVENTION AGAINST TEEN PREGNANCY SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA

The Computer Clubhouse is a safe and on a model of social integration, violence creative after-school learning environment prevention, and knowledge transfer. The where adolescents, accompanied by adult Club House was founded on the following mentors and young adults, use cutting-edge principles: technology to explore, innovate, find their • Adolescents are afforded full rights and talent, and assert their identities, all based responsibilities. • Adolescents occupy a social category that • Exploring creativity as an alternative to has the potential to change structural solving everyday problems. elements that perpetuate poverty and • Art as a tool for expression, inclusion, exclusion. and a sense of belonging. • Education as a tool for social change. As of 2010, the “Girls Only: Comprehensive • ICT as a strategic resource to spark Development for Girls and Prevention Against personal growth and upward social mobility Teen Pregnancy” space was part of the Club for adolescents at a social disadvantage. House. Here, a space was reserved weekly • Confronting the digital divide, which is a for working with women and girls to empower challenge to achieving social integration them, build relationships of coexistence, in Costa Rica. develop their own passion projects, and gives • The community is a privileged place to them a better quality of life. This also includes support adolescents in their processes of supporting their decision-making abilities, doing, becoming, and being. accept their sexuality, and prevent teen or repeat pregnancy.

#CultureIsARight: ACCELERATING CULTURAL POLICIES 60 FOR THE CITY OF SAN LUIS POTOSI MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OF SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, MEXICO

The city of San Luis Potosí implemented a participation in the public agenda on culture; number of public policies that favour local “Regional Equality” to promote the fair cultural development, and these have been distribution of conditions that favour access established as a core, cross-cutting centre and engagement with artistic and cultural for municipal initiatives. The design of each rights, goods, and services; “Promoting future strategy, their respective lines of action, Creativity”, to contribute to the capacities of the operational programs that provide a clear creative development and innovation between agenda, the working bodies responsible cultural actors and organizations, particularly for implementation, the evaluation system, those that are community-based; and, finally, and even budget structures all arose from a the approach that spans each of the above: participatory planning process. This resulted “Cultural Rights”, a sense of public policy in the Permanent Beta document, known that Cultural Rights provide and require an today as the Culture Chapter of the Municipal institutional focus culture. This reformulated Development Plan, which will last until 2021. approach takes a pro-individual perspective The tool focuses on four broad understandings and views human rights and sustainable of public policy in the city: “Cultural development through the lens of human rights. Democracy”, to expand and strengthen social 61 2017-2021 STATE PROGRAM ON THE IMPROVEMENT, TRAINING, AND PROFESSIONALIZATION OF PROMOTORS AND CULTURAL MANAGERS IN SAN LUIS POTOSÍ. STATE OF SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, MEXICO

The State Program on the Improvement, youth, persons with (dis)abilities, and persons Training, and Professionalization of Promoters in vulnerable situations. and Cultural Managers in San Luis Potosí (SLP), has been promoted by the Directorate- The continuing education program fosters General for Cultural Development under the leadership qualities in the participants, with State Department of Culture since 2017, an openness to collaborative, cross-cutting and will last until 2021. This initiative is work with joint responsibilities. The topics strongly underpinned by the principles of and methodologies addressed are: skills for equity, inclusion, and non-violence. Its main the theoretical and practical management objective is capacity-building for the cultural of identities; local and international cultural managers of SLP. It provides democratic, policies; legislation; sustainability; cultural continuing education with various activities industries; emerging knowledge communities; focused on knowledge transfer within records; cataloguing and emphasizing tangible cultural management using concrete, proven and intangible heritage; current cultural methodologies. The city is also committed consumption trends; strategic planning; to building critical thinking as well as diagnostics; evaluation methods; indicators; professionalizing action and intervention cultural information systems; funding approaches by different cultural sector procurement; events organization; cultural stakeholders within their communities. This marketing; and administration centred on is to empower people to exercise their cultural objectives, public training, proper techniques, rights, influence sustainable processes in and dynamics of sociocultural mobilization. local life, and improve their overall quality of The scope of the program has also been life. Special attention is given to outreach and expanded with broadcasts of the streaming promotion related to creative skills in children, workshops, allowing more than just state cultural managers to access training.

62 HAPPY HOMES SANCAKTEPE, ISTANBUL, TURKEY

Sancaktepe Happy Homes Project; it is a Our “Happy Homes Center” encourages our project that is run through the collaboration women to participate more in societal life of the Ministry of Forestry, Religious Affairs, with various seminars, education, excursions, IRRICA, the Turkish Employment Organization, and cultural events, and thanks to this helps Universities, and NGOs, including the Ministry protect and strengthen the family, the most of Family and Social Policies. important building block of society. Despite historical, spatial, and societal create both social and individual awareness. differences, the family is sacred, special, and Thus, by culture-bearing individuals, important throughout all geographies of the especially women, bringing their qualities world. However, the institution of family has into the family, sustainability is ensured been exposed to some important and adverse with the cultivation of more educated and effects in various periods of history, both cultured children. It raises happy societies structurally and functionally. In the process by increasing the quality of life of the family, coming from modernity to today, new lifestyles the basic building block that forms society, that internal immigration and urbanization and increasing the living standards of society. along with industrialization, which are The “Happy Homes” project maintains many occurring at a dizzying pace, have imposed subdivisions. have largely transformed the institution of family and led to its structural downsizing Including “Neighborhood Mothers”, and the loss of some of its traditional basic “Guidance and Counseling Services”, functions. The Sancaktepe Municipality “Parental Life School”, “Happy Sibling created the “Happy Homes” project to be able Families”, “International Symposium”, to produce solutions to the most commonly “Coffeehouse is a School”, “Mobile Happy encountered problems in our country and to Homes Truck”, “Sancaktepe Happy Homes return some of the sacred value to the family. Forest”, “Sancaktepe Family Schools”, “Happy Through the transfer of some necessary, basic Family Education Growing with Employment”, information for the happiness and continuity of “First Education, Then Marriage”, and “Social the family, the “Happy Homes” project aims to Responsibility” projects have been signed off.

URBAN ART AS AN ACCELERATOR OF INCLUSIVE 63 COMMUNITIES - LESSONS FROM LOS PEPINES SANTIAGO DE LOS CABALLEROS, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

This urban art project was implemented in the performers, and cultural managers, but had Los Pepines neighbourhood and has become not yet been fully developed. However, the catalyst for establishing inclusive communities. beautification program, public spaces, safe It was launched in 2017 in accordance with roadway measures, landscaping, and solid the Santiago Culture Agenda for Development waste management by the City Council, initiative. This was bolstered in 2019 when incorporated urban art such as Bachata Santiago hosted the international meeting and merengue concerts in streets and green of the Ibero-American Centre for Urban spaces. Murals located on walls and façades Strategic Development (CIDEU), called “City, were abandoned, dirty, and covered littered Culture, and the 2030 Agenda”. At the start with garbage. However, this was improved with of 2017, the Culture Agenda for Development interventions that comprehensively improved established a partnership with visual artists, urban clean-up efforts, citizen safety, and the management of popular festivals all based on performance artists, such as the “Mural Tour”, principles of urban beautification. The Los the printing of paintings on paper, and the Pepines neighbourhood was creative in its creation of jobs in trades, creative industries, approach given its location in the old centre and tour guides. The initiative brought cultural of the city, a place home to history, national visitors and other tourists to the city. The pride, and the birthplaces of both nationally governing council of CIDEU, the Dominican and internationally renowned artists. The Federation of Municipalities (FEDOMU), and project oversaw the design and operation the Strategic Development Council also lent of various educational and employment their support to the project. management tools used by visual and

64 “VIRADA CULTURAL”: SOCIAL, INCLUSIVE AND AFFECTIVE MULTICUL- TURAL PRODUCTIONS IN FAVOR OF THE RIGHT TO THE CITY SAO PAULO, BRAZIL

The “Virada Cultural” is promoted by the São education for all and appropriate governance Paulo City Hall and it is one of the largest arrangements). events in Latin America, offering a 24-hour, wide-ranging and free-of-charge program The “Virada” program offers cultural that includes various types of cultural events, attractions for people of all age groups, such as popular and erudite musical, theater, social classes, and tastes that occupy, at dance and interventions. artistic, exhibitions, the same time, different regions of the city. installations, cinema shows, acrobatic and The “Virada” is also a diversity event, which circus performances, visual arts, gastronomy, contemplates the variety of nationalities and street artists, children’s show, popular culture, multiculturalism existing in São Paulo. The and brings together national and international intention is to generate a sense of belonging artists, exponents of the most varied styles, to the population, through the enhancement well-known audiences and revelations. of memory, cultural occupation of the city, “Virada Cultural” attracts thousands of people promotion and belonging to public facilities, from all over the state of São Paulo and to literary dissemination, strengthening of other cities of Brazil. The event, as well as the audiovisual, reunion with modernist the cultural policy of the São Paul city ,aims values and recognition of the cultural power to democratize access to culture, reinforce of City, broad process of integration and the cultural dimension in the quality of life communication to consolidate the abundant in the city and its sustainable development vitality of São Paulo’s culture, positioning the (heritage, diversity, creativity, opportunities city as one of the largest cultural capitals in to exercise cultural rights, knowledge and the world. SÉGOU: A CREATIVE CITY 65 SÉGOU, MALI

The Ségou: A Creative City project is an • The professionalization of the cultural initiative under the Festival on the Niger sector Foundation in partnership with the African • Identifying and highlighting the city’s Creative Cities Network and the Ségou Town cultural identities Hall. This project was recognized as a good • Access for everyone to culture practice by the awarding jury for the 3rd UCLG Mexico City – Culture 21 International Five disciplines were chosen during the Award in 2018. workshop used to validate the project with all the cultural actors and authorities in the town. http://agenda21culture.net/sites/default/files/ These were: music, fashion and design, visual files/good_practices/segou-def-eng.pdf arts, heritage, and gastronomy. The project was launched in 2015 alongside the The project focuses on cultural actors and 11th annual Festival on the Niger in Ségou with artists overall. Specifically, it is geared toward the aim of providing the town with a cultural youth, women, people with reduced mobility, policy that includes a sustainable cultural local communities, civil society, and local development program (SCDP). Its goal is to populations. make the town’s cultural heritage and artistic creativity into the pillars of its sustainable Ségou: A Creative City was started by the human development, the local economy, and African Creative Cities Network to create a the well-being of residents by 2030. framework for creative collaboration with other creative African cities (Nouakchott, Pointe- The Creative City Ségou project focuses on the Noire). It implements projects of co-creation, following four components: co-production, exchange of experiences, and • The town’s system for information and sharing of good practices through IKAM (Kôrè regional brand image Institute of Arts and Crafts).

PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE COSSACKS AND 66 COSSACK CULTURE AS A HISTORICALLY DEVELOPED UNIFYING BASIS OF A MULTINATIONAL URBAN COMMUNITY STAVROPOL, RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Stavropol was founded by the Cossacks in population for the Cossacks preservation, 1777 as a fortress and a Cossack village. development and organize systemic Then it became home for 100 nationalities; it interactions of national-cultural associations was necessary to support, unite the hereditary to solve issues. This project is a system of measures to preserve folk influencing on current issues of the urban traditions, popularize the Cossack culture as part community. All Cossack associations are of cultural heritage of the Russians. The project members of the ethnic council, emphasizing is aimed at patriotic education, volunteerism the fundamental role of the Cossacks as a development, institution of family and traditional sub-ethnos of the Russians in solving ethno- cultural-historical heritage strengthening, confessional issues. expressed in the Cossacks readiness to accept characteristics of other peoples. The project implementation is based on mutual integration of ethnic characteristics The main tasks of Stavropol city administration: and cultural traditions into the city socio- • support amateur Cossack creative groups; cultural structure for a symbiosis of mono- ethnic societies and the benefit of common • create comfortable conditions for Cossack interests of social, cultural, religious, other associations activities for close cultural Stavropol residents and guests. dialogue; • increase the youth interest in the The project is implemented by following Cossacks historical-cultural heritage; events: • raise public awareness about the Cossacks • Culturological events - find, reconstruct, history, culture, and activities of local preserve, enhance dance, song, ritual, government for the Cossacks revival. domestic, and craft traditions. • Spiritual and moral events - foster A system for interaction between national- commitments to traditions of self- cultural non-profit organizations with the city government and family values. Cossack associations vanguard was created. Representatives of the Cossack societies are • Patriotic events - introduce the Cossacks included in all consultative councils, thereby history, promote love and the duty to protect the Motherland.

67 HALLASAN URBAN PLAY SURAKARTA, INDONESIA

Surakarta is a city that is rich in arts and “The Hallasan Urban Play” is a cooperation cultural history, which are vital components between the Jeju Special Self Governing of its city branding. Within this city, there are Province and the City of Surakarta that aims many artists, art performers, art communities not only strengthen the friendship between to who are passionately contributing to cultural cities but also to reactivate the public space conservation through arts such as art through local arts and to increase the exposure performances, traditional dances, sculptures, of local art form to society. Art, as part of the paintings, or even poetry. culture, can sometimes only be seen through some “distance” or enjoyed as an exhibition, but how if art can be something experienced as artists, architects, urban designers, and also through some interaction between the “art” actively engaging the community as a user. and “people”? The Hallasan Urban Play is an art installation Participation and collaboration will become the that used as a child playground. This art centr al values to answer society’s needs and installation leverages the Jaya Wijaya Park as discovers society’s character. The discussion a child friendly park and giving impact to the was involving multi discipline expertise such surrounding area.

2020 LANTERN FESTIVAL IN TAICHUNG, THE DAZZLING CITY 68 TAICHUNG

First staged 31 years ago, “Taiwan Lantern Lantern Festival in Taichung. Festival” has not only grown in reputation and scale year by year but has also won praise as Facing between sea and mountains and with the best and most creative festive event by an ecosystem rich in diversity, Taichung not the international media. To carry forward this only serves as a centre for boosting economic traditional event while changing with the times, development in central Taiwan but also has a we have tried to make the event more creative rich cultural heritage. These years Taichung and more environmentally friendly as well as has hosted several international festive add more local features. In addition to bringing events and is rich in experience in holding enjoyment to people, we also hope the world grand events. Held at the beginning of the can see the beauty of Taiwan via this event. year annually, the purpose of the festival is to spread the traditional folklore by attracting To follow Mayor Lu’s lead in boosting people to appreciate beautiful lanterns. With Taichung’s economy, we leap at chances to the advance of technology, a wide range of host grand and international festive events. displaying mediums is employed in the festival. Taiwan Lantern Festival has become a very Preserving cultural heritage and exhibiting large-scale tourist attraction, so we eagerly innovative technology is the core concept in took the opportunity to host the 2020 Taiwan “2020 Taiwan Lantern Festival in Taichung.”

TEQUILA: A SMART, SUSTAINABLE CULTURAL TOURISM DESTINATION 69 TEQUILA, JALISCO, MEXICO

Tequila: A Smart, Sustainable Cultural Tourism As a result, it is a destination with a history Destination is an expression of Mexican identity. of tourism. This innovative tourist spot uses The town is strongly rooted in its culture and state-of-the-art technological infrastructure to its charro, mariachi, and tequila traditions. ensure the region’s sustainable development. It is accessible to all, which facilitates environmental, social, and economic spheres. interaction and integration of visitors with the The Agave Landscape and Ancient Industrial environment, and increases the quality of their Facilities of Tequila are a UNESCO World experience while also improving residents’ Heritage Site. It is a project that offers a quality of life, too. It is a destination grounded in holistic approach from conceptualization to culture, which helps support the educational, design, management, and governance.

70 URBAN INTEGRATION AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT FOR THE MONUMENTAL CHURCH COMPLEX OF SANT PERE TERRASSA, CATALONIA, SPAIN

Between 1994 and 2010 the Terrassa City light on the rich history. Furthermore, cultural Council promoted the Urban Integration revitalization initiatives have been developed to and Cultural Development Project for the contribute to the educational development and Monumental Church Complex of Sant Pere. It social cohesion of the city through its heritage. involved the collaboration of the Government of Catalonia, the Archdiocese of Barcelona, Under the auspices of this project, two related and the Provincial Government of Barcelona. programs were developed: the Special Plan The main objective was to carry out various for the Monumental Church Complex and its restoration, archaeological, museum, Surroundings and the Executive Plan for the architectural, and cultural revitalization Monumental Church Complex of Sant Pere. projects whose collective aim was to create The objective of the first was to promote the awareness of the Diocese of Egara, and integration of the monument into the urban to strengthen ties between the site, its landscape and social fabric of the city. Under surroundings, and citizens. the Executive Plan, various actions were carried out to deepen the scientific knowledge The actions in this Project have made it of all three churches, and to spread awareness possible to study, preserve, and improve upon among citizens. This included restoration of the current knowledge of the site. In addition to whole complex, detailing the site’s liturgical the long process of excavations and research, a and cultural importance, archaeological museum has been set up in recent years to shed intervention, and museography.

71 CULTURAL GROWTH THROUGH LIFELONG LEARNING TORREÓN, COAHUILA, MEXICO

The program is part of a focus on 5.1 Social General on Culture in the City of Torreón. and Human Development under the Annual It has been in place for 2 years and is still Operational Program by the Directorate- ongoing. Cultural growth through lifelong learning is the guiding principle of this heritage, while also promoting creativity and initiative, based on the policies outlined in the diversity of cultural expressions. All of this has Cultural Development Plan. These are aimed been implemented through the promotion and at recognizing culture as a right, a factor for dissemination of municipal museums, cultural cohesion and identity, and one of society’s centres, and public libraries. This is reflected strengths. Through the implementation of these in the number of visits to both temporary and policies, the Directorate-General on Culture permanent exhibitions at the museums, the seeks to implement strategic plans, such as number of attendees at specialized workshops those detailed in the 2016-2021 UNESCO or introductions to the arts at cultural centres, Work Plan for Culture. The main purpose is and attendance at libraries. to protect, promote, and spread awareness of

CULTURAL POLICY OF THE CITY OF TROIS-RIVIÈRES 72 TROIS-RIVIÈRES, QUEBEC, CANADA

For many year, Trois-Rivières was based on a church converted into a cultural venue, the pulp and paper industry until it suffered and a network of five libraries. a serious economic crisis during the 1990s, • A new sustainable development policy resulting in high levels of unemployment in 2019 includes culture as one of its and a general sense of gloom throughout guiding principles. the population. In 1993 the city adopted a Taking Action for Social Development cultural policy, which was renewed again in 2010, in response to this situation. The • The city views culture as a fundamental policy positioned culture as the driver of right for its people and, since 2003, has sustainable development, and Trois-Rivières maintained a program to combat cultural also implemented a broad, comprehensive exclusion. Finally, in 2018, Trois-Rivières cultural strategy: implemented a new strategic plan for cultural mediation. Taking Action for Culture Taking Action for Land Management • This is a major cultural and heritage undertaking aimed a creating a vibrant • This involved the redevelopment of cultural life that is in a constant state of a huge industrial site that included change. It has helped organize a dozen the conversion of the water filtration initiatives, including four internationally section of a former paper mill into a recognized events, 70 cultural museum called Boréalis, as well as the organizations, some 60 ongoing cultural construction of an expansive outdoor projects, six theatres, an exhibition centre, amphitheatre by the river. a museum, two heritage appreciation sites, • Furthermore, the Carré de la Fosse was a historic district, an outdoor amphitheatre, the first established public space to be unique, collaborative, educational, • Significant revitalization of the city centre participatory, and intergenerational. through culture • This involved an executive plan to • Major financial investments in culture revitalize the entire Bas-du-Cap district to • Cultural events give the city a good address its economic difficulties. reputation, strengthening its exterior appeal and creating an essential element Taking Action for Economic Development and for its tourism and economic development Beautification strategies. Above all, this has boosted the population’s sense of community and pride.

73 ULAANBAATAR PUBLIC ART WEEK ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA

The Ulaanbaatar Public Art Week is a bi- schedule here: http://www.landartmongolia. annual event that takes place throughout com/images/downloads/Booklet_ND4.pdf. the city of Ulaanbaatar and consists out of a number of get-together activities including an Our process is as follows: Land Art Mongolia international public conference, contemporary publishes an open call for Mongolian artists art exhibitions and public art interventions, to realize public art interventions during the maintaining a holistic understanding of art week within the urban context, as well as sustainability. The Art Week is executed in the for participating in the exhibition - hosted by years between the contemporary Art Biennial the MN17 Gallery (about 800m2 exhibition that we organize as LAM (and foresees the space). From a high number of incoming following Biennial themes). Previous themes proposals 5 projects are selected by the have included Art & Politics, environment curatorial team, and each project is supported and animals, and our next edition will be on with a production grant. There have been nomadism and the migration to the capital. art interventions all over Ulaanbaatar in Both biennial and Public Art Week bring very diverse neighbourhoods, for instance important global topics such as climate and in the underpass of the Chinggis Avenue democracy to Ulaanbaatar and through artistic near the department store, the Naraantool interventions, cultural experts and speakers, market etc. For the final exhibition we also create dialogue with the citizens of the city. invite international artists to collaborate with these five Mongolian artists. The results have For details please see the full program including always been highly appreciated by locals as biographies of the speakers and the detail well as international contributors and visitors. A MORE ENLIGHTENED COMMUNITY, A MORE PARTICIPATIVE COMMUNITY 74 VALONGO, PORTUGAL

The practice that is being submitted is on the use of public resources; our umbrella project A More Enlightened - The Living Library, an informal and Community, a More Participative Community. constructive dialogue between students We believe that the more clear and true and volunteers who are frequently the information we provide, the more apt and recipients of prejudices and stereotypes; interested citizens will be, as well as more - Short Manual of Local Citizenship, an equipped to participate in decision-making accessible and appealing handbook processes and actions aimed at improving the aimed at replicating the basic notions of quality of life of citizens and the municipality. local democracy; Through this practice and its subsequent initiatives, we aim to build a dynamic, - Brief Courses on Citizenship, where sustainable, innovative and people-centered local democracy, citizenship, democratic municipality. To achieve this, we have, since values, are discussed; 2014, implemented a series of initiatives - Participatory Youth Budget of Valongo, a promoting public access to information so project that allows young people from 6 as to ensure that all citizens acquire the to 35 years of age to engage in a more knowledge and skills in order to cherish and constructive and participatory way in the maintain a sustainable development. community by creating a dynamic and critical thinking about the region where Within this practice, a few of the initiatives we are inserted, allowing them to present that have been carried out are: ideas, build them, debate and lead to - Accountability Week, where the aim their realization; is to stimulate the involvement of the population in local governance, providing There are many other initiatives within this accurate information on municipal project, all created with the same objective in management and promoting transparency mind.

“VOLZHANOCHKA” CHILDREN FOLK DANCE ENSEMBLE AND THE 75 CITY-FUNDED INSTITUTION OF EXTRACURRICULAR EDUCATION “VOLGOGRAD CHILDREN SCHOOL OF CHOREOGRAPHIC ART”: THEIR OUTREACH ACTIVITY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN AND CIVIC CONNECTIONS VOLGOGRAD, RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Volgograd Children School of Choreographic Art are a combination of education and dance (CSCA) and “Volzhanochka” Dance Ensemble leading to international cultural cooperation. The project’s directions: Volgograd City and Region take their official 1. Studying and promoting Russian folk guests to Volgograd CSCA, where the latter heritage, preserving dancing traditions of learn about Russian dance, dress, holidays peoples and territories. and traditions. To the participants of youth and school exchanges, Volgograd CSCA gives the 2. Studying dance culture of different traditional bread-and-salt greeting, organized countries, preserving nationally specific exhibitions and Russian dance master-classes, performance styles. prepared traditional meals and souvenirs. The 3. Presenting Russian dance as an Ensemble has since performed in Turkey, inalienable part of the world culture on China, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, international festivals. Great Britain, Bulgaria and Lithuania. 4. Organizing concerts, exhibitions and Cultural exchanges by Volgograd CSCA and receptions for foreign visitors. its Ensemble build bridges between cultures, 5. Participating in the projects dedicated to portray their spirituality, and promote World Cities Day, Volgograd’s twin-cities, international understanding. meaningful dates. In 2011, the Ensemble’s cooperation with 6. Printing teaching materials and handbooks Gaziemir (a district of İzmir, Turkey) led to a on choreography and national dress, Cooperation Agreement between Volgograd and exchanging teaching experience. İzmir. Consequently, the Ensemble was officially Refined and enhanced by systematic studies included in Volgograd’s mission to Italy. and the accumulation of learning and teaching Since then, its activity closely correlates with materials, the Ensemble is a regular participant the development conception “Volgograd as a of city-wide events. Its “Volzhanochka Invites capital of people’s diplomacy.” Friends” International Children Festival (under the motto “Children are the messengers of In 2023, the new concert program “Through peace!”) is held every 5 years. Countries and Continents” will be presented at “Volzhanochka Invites Friends” Festival.

76 “ECOC WROCŁAW 2016” LEGACY AS A KEY TO UNLOCK PARTICIPATION, SUSTAINABILITY AND CULTURE-FRIENDLY CITY WROCŁAW, POLAND

During preparations to the cultural year of citizens’ participation in decision and policy ECoC Wrocław 2016, a significant social making in Wrocław. The process itself was empowerment took place, which was the implemented by several parallel consultancy initial aspect of the strategical transformation schemes, focusing on new strategies towards decentralization, enabling multi-level for culture after the ECoC, new types of organization for neighbourhood councils, and inhabitants involved, democracy in Wrocław tools on collective decision making. will remain only an idea, without being our reality and everyday life. Municipality of Wrocław has been organizing discussions about neighborhood districts since The high importance was given to analytical 2015 in the context of creating the “Wrocław and research aspects on culture and civic 2030 Strategy”, by commissioning reports - participation. Municipality together with such as “Functional analysis of neighbourhood NGO’s and citizens have created programme district”, as well as by organizing studies, and visionary documents: “New constitution workshops and meetings with neighborhoods for neighborhood district, 2018”, “Strategy leaders as part of the “Wrocław speaks about for the development of cooperation between neighborhoods “ project in 2018. Municipality the city of Wrocław and non-governmental of Wrocław has invested in neighborhood organizations for 2018-2022 with NGOs in councils, which have the potential to be one Wrocław”, “Culture – I’m present!”, a semi- of the pillars of democracy and civil society strategy for culture 2018-2020+. - primarily due to their locality and close relations with the residents. On the one hand, And finally in 2020, Wrocław initiated local governments know their needs and preparations to fully bottom up “Culture problems best; on the other - they have the Congress”, which will be a platform during opportunity to activate and involve citizens which in the unique way social elections in social life and co-decision making. It will place to delegate 8 representatives of became visible that without the neighborhood inhabitants to the “Wrocław’s Civic Advisory councils, strong local communities and Council for Culture”, which will be advising to President of Wrocław.

REJUVENATION OF A WORLD CULTURAL METROPOLIS: 77 DAMING PALACE HERITAGE PROTECTION PROJECT XI’AN, CHINA

Daming Palace, built-in 634 A.D., was a Units. With high value in history, science, national symbol and a crucial political centre of culture, and arts, it not only offers significant the Tang Dynasty. Covering an area of around historical evidence for the Tang Dynasty but 3.2 km2, the Palace, whose architectures’ also becomes a famous historic site and layout set the standards for ancient Chinese cultural symbol of Xi’an. palace architectures, had become an excellent example for later Chinese palace architectures In October 2007, Xi’an Municipal after the Tang Dynasty. Daming Palace, one People’s Government officially issued the of the best-preserved Chinese palaces so Implementation Plan for the Protection and far, had been included in the first batch of Rehabilitation of the Daming Palace Heritage the National Key Cultural Relics Protection Area, which ushered the overall protection and rehabilitation for the area. In October 2010, Network of Chang’an-Tianshan Corridor, Daming Palace National Heritage Park was was successfully listed in UNESCO’s World opened to the public. In June 2014, Daming Cultural Heritage and thus refresh the city’s Palace Heritage, as a key historical site in the image and cultural landmark. joint-application project Silk Road: Routes

78 NATIONAL HOLIDAY “YSYAKH TUYMAADA“ YAKUTSK, REPUBLIC OF SAKHA (YAKUTIA), RUSSIAN FEDERATION

The city national holiday “Ysyakh Tuymaady” the sacrificial hearth made of cast iron and is held in the architectural and ethnographic bronze “Ayyy belese”, the Central arch “Toy complex with the same name, located in 17 Aana”, ethnographic complex of traditional km from Yakutsk, in the picturesque area Ys outbuildings “Yakut manor” with a Yurt and Khatyn (Three birches). According to legend, an Annex - khoton, two-storey barn and Ys Khatyn is the place where Ellei Bootur - the Yakut Urasa, in 2000 in honor of the new ancestor of the Sakha people, got a family and Millennium “Altan Serge”. Serge is made from for the first time he performed the ceremony of copper, which have the power of cleansing worshipping to the heavenly gods of Ayyy by and strengthening the spiritual strength of a sprinkling the earth with kumis. Since 1998, person. On the “Yc Khatyn” complex “Ysyakh Ysyakh Tuymaada is held annually. Tuymaada” reconstructed all known types of Yakut Serge - ritual hitching posts. Total on the Ysyakh has been a consolidating, unifying territory of the complex more than 150 ritual celebration of the summer meeting for all objects and 264 tyusyulge for enterprises and citizens of Yakutsk for 22 years. The complex organizations, communities and regions from contains a single ensemble of reconstructed all over the country. religious monuments, executed in the best traditions of wooden architecture by folk Ysyakh as a holiday creates a special sense artists from all over the Republic. During of belonging to the spiritual world, respect for this time, it was built: the ritual center their traditions and heritage. When holding a “meeting of the Sun”, the folklore center national holiday, it is important to strictly follow “Toyuk to5oyo”, the ritual center for drinking the traditional canons of Ysyakh, first of all, its kumys “Urun tunah tyusyulge”, the center strictly regulated ceremonial and ritual behavior. of national dance “Osuokhay”, the center in this socio-cultural dimension, the Ysyakh of horse racing “Dyosogoy”, the center of holiday acquires the highest spiritual value and national competitions “Dygyn oonnuuta”, becomes significant for all Yakut people. LIVING MUSEUM, PRODUCING CITY 79 YALOVA, TURKEY

Ibrahim Muteferrika Paper Museum, which about 300 kinds of products, especially using was established in 2013, have welcomed waste clothing and plants, and we want to hundreds of thousands of visitors in a short increase this number (Notebook, Calendar, time with the opportunity of free workshops and Agenda, Business Card and similar products). production of all visitors along with exhibition Our aim is to produce all the products the of cultural heritage. The first Muslim-owned city needs with an eco-friendly method. Our ‘Ottoman Paper Production Center’ was museum also carried out production work with established in the town of Elmalık in Yalova the elderly in the Nursing Home and people in 1745 by İbrahim Müteferrika. Using the with Down Syndrome. We want to produce archive documents, we built a paper museum edible paper especially for street animals upon the remnants of the historic factory and with the new projects planned. With our also started to produce paper in a traditional work, we prevent an average of 1500 trees and harmless way without threatening nature. from being cut each year and our goal is to increase this number and include everyone in Over time, new production workshops started the city to production. Moreover, the museum to be established in many parts of the city and aims to become an information and exhibition our country. The souvenirs and products of center regarding history of paper, paper arts, our institution are produced with methods that development of paper industry in Turkey. do not harm the environment. We produced

POIGNANT KOREAN HISTORY RE-BORNS TO THE VILLAGE BLISSFUL 80 WITH CULTURE AND ART FOR ALL: HUINNYEOUL CULTURE VILLAGE YEONGDO-GU, BUSAN, REPUBLIC OF KOREA

The Huinnyeoul Culture Village Project started economy and make the village a blissful place with the aim of partnering with village residents, for visitors and residents. The village became artists, and the administrative agencies an iconic destination in Korea with a total of and invigorating the village for pleasant 20,000 visitors, domestic and foreign, visiting spaces through the voluntarily participating each month. residents, the originality of artists, the urban regeneration projects, and the cultural art Refugees of the Korean War swarmed into this education program. The project is also in village from all across the country and lived pursuit of creating jobs with a multitude of huddling in shacks built on cliffs. Many of them resident culture education programs and fell from the cliffs to get injured and went through village commentators to revitalize the local the nightmarish time of their shacks swept away by typhoons. During the industrialization such as cooking classes, village design period of the ’60s and ’70s, it became the classes, and the Huinnyeoul Studio to densely populated, illegal slum with the influx enhance cultural and artistic capabilities of of residents migrating to an urban area. the residents; it converted deserted houses to resident-shared workshops by cleaning them The village was designated an urban up and has offered a variety of cultural art redevelopment zone in 2009 and lifted from the experience events. zone in 2013, during which more illegal houses became rundown and the residents left one by From the outset of the project, the Huinnyeoul one. As a result, unoccupied houses ended up Culture Village Promotion Council gathered deserted and the village fell to a slum. opinions from the residents to resolve village issues, and the settled village artists held When the district office started the initiatives communal exhibitions and provided cultural for area cleanup and residential environment art program educations for the residents. improvement in 2011, the deserted house They also organized the annual Alley Festival owners loaned free for public projects and the and quarterly village sharing events and flea district office improved the deserted houses into markets to make the village headed for a the space for artists, attracted artists to support unifying place for both visitors and residents. their activities, which marked the beginning of the Huinnyeoul Culture Village Project. For spatial regeneration, the council restored the long-deserted well to an attractive destination The Yeongdo Cultural Center, a culture institute while completing the cleanup of rundown leading the promotion and development of alleys with the addition of an observatory and regional culture, formed a promotion council information boards. It promoted filming sites with the village community residents and in the village and built a village center for use the Yeongdo District Office and engaged in by many village residents. The council hired a multitude of cultural art education projects the village residents for a commentator to like the mural education and creative space introduce the village, boosting their affection projects. It also pursued the Busan’s urban for hometown, and made sustainable profits regeneration projects of “Mountainside from a village café, contributing to local Road Renaissance” and “Blissful Village” economy vitalization. and the national contest project of “Urban Revitalization Enhancement” to promote both It also published a village newspaper to let culture and urban regeneration. various resident voices be heard and have made the own brand of “Huinnyeoul Culture The council had various village reshape Village” through making a village map and projects implemented as a cultural initiative developing a character. YOPOUGON: BECOMING AN EDUCATIONAL AND CREATIVE CITY 81 THROUGH SOCIAL COHESION YOPOUGON, ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST

Yopougon is an Ivorian commune that This City Hall’s approach is comprised of two experienced an economic and cultural boom (2) main phases: thanks to a modern urbanization project. The 1 - Outlining a strategic plan for developing economic crisis of the 1990s and the political the socio-cultural potential of Yopougon and military crisis of the 2000s threatened its commune (2011 -2015) which, itself social cohesion. In order to rebuild and meet took three (3) phases - Completion of the needs of its youth, in 2011 the City Hall a diagnostic study; Adoption of priority worked together with a group of sociocultural programs and projects by the Municipal actors to change the region’s approach to Council; and the search for partnerships culture. They focused on economic, social, and co-financing); and cultural development with educational 2 - Implementation of priority programs and and creative programs aimed at establishing projects (2015 - Today). Two types of social cohesion through multi-purpose programs are being developed (program sociocultural facilities. on social cohesion through culture and Considered a leisure destination given its large the program for building sociocultural number of restaurants and entertainment facilities). spots, Yopougon is the main home for cultural life in the Abidjan District. It has the largest number of schools per capita in the District, the largest industrial area in all of the Côte d’Ivoire, as well as a multitude of artists, associations, and entrepreneurs who reside there and play a major role in its vibrant cultural life.

Yopougon is a commune for young people. They make up 45% of the population. Given their dynamism and creativity, the City Council considers to be one of the major beneficiaries of its mandate. The commune has adopted a progressive approach to urban revitalization based on the construction or restoration of sociocultural facilities that create both an educational and creative environment. www.award.agenda21culture.net www.prix.agenda21culture.net www.premio.agenda21culture.net