Asia-Europe for Network of Sustainable Creative Urban Heritage Economies PROJECT PARTNERS: This project is support by the programme ASEF Creative Networks of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF). This project was selected for support from over 50 proposals submitted through a competitive open call in 2013. Asia- Europe Network of Urban Heritage for Sustainable Creative Economies This report has been prepared at the Network Secretariat located at INTACH Heritage Academy October 2015 Published in 2015 by INTACH Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage 71, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi - 110 003 Tel.: 24631818, 24632267, 24632269, 24637172; Fax: 91-11-24611290 E-mail: [email protected] www.intach.org Asia-Europe Network of Urban Heritage for Sustainable Creative Economies © INTACH, 2015. This report has been edited by Navin Piplani, Principal Director, INTACH Heritage Academy Founding Partners: Amareswar Galla, IIIM; Moe Moe Lwin, Yangon Heritage Trust; Laurie Neale, Europa Nostra; Navin Piplani, INTACH Geoffrey Read, INTO Secretariat Team: Ritika Khanna, Devinder Malhi This project is support by the programme ASEF Creative Networks of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF). This project was selected for support from over 50 proposals submitted through a competitive open call in 2013. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic and mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any other information storage and retrieval system or otherwise, without written permission from the publishers. Cover page images credit: Ritika Khanna, INTACH Heritage Academy Designed in India by [email protected] Contents Preface ............................................................................................................................................................. v Message from Chairman, INTACH .......................................................................................................... vi Message from Member Secretary, INTACH .......................................................................................vii Abbreviations ................................................................................................................................................ viii 1. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................1 1.1 Brief background to the Network ............................................................................... 2 1.2 Vision and Mission ......................................................................................................... 4 1.3 The Founding Partners.................................................................................................. 5 1.4 Asia-Europe Perspectives within the Project ............................................................ 7 1.5 The Guiding Framework ............................................................................................... 8 1.6 The Secretariat ................................................................................................................ 8 2. UNDERSTANDING CREATIVE ECONOMIES ......................................................... 9 2.1 Definitions and Terminology ........................................................................................ 10 2.1.1 What is Creativity? ........................................................................................................................... 10 2.1.2 What are Cultural Industries? ....................................................................................................... 11 2.1.3 What are Creative Industries? ...................................................................................................... 11 2.1.4 What is Creative Economy? .......................................................................................................... 13 2.1.5 The Creative Economy, Cultural Policy and the Arts – Anmol Vellani .................................15 2.2 Need for Heritage-linked Creative Economies Strategy ......................................... 20 2.2.1 Opportunities and Challenges .................................................................................................... 21 2.2.2 Creative Economies and Sustainable City Search for a New Governance Paradigm – Prof. S.M. Patnaik and Supriya Singh .................................................................... 22 2.3 Mapping out the Sectors ............................................................................................... 29 2.3.1 Making Creative Class work in India – Amit Kapoor ...............................................................33 2.3.2 Creative Networks in the Indian Context: A Perspective – Tanaji Chakravorty ..........................................................................................................................35 iii 3. ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN BY THE NETWORK IN ITS FIRST YEAR ..................... 39 3.1 Identification and Mapping of Heritage-linked Local Economies in Select Heritage Cities................................................................................................. 41 3.1.1 Framework Adopted ....................................................................................................................... 41 3.1.2 Jaipur and Sanganer, Rajasthan .................................................................................................. 42 3.1.3 Bagru, Rajasthan ............................................................................................................................ 47 3.1.4 Chanderi, Madhya Pradesh ........................................................................................................... 49 3.1.5 Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh ................................................................................................................. 52 3.1.6 Agra, Uttar Pradesh ......................................................................................................................... 54 3.1.7 The Street Culture of Agra – Integrating livelihoods and heritage – Renu Khosla ......................................................................................................................................57 3.1.8 Cultural Economies in a Colonial Metropolis – Leveraging the heritage value of Kolkata’s Chitpur Road – Kamalika Bose ...................................................61 3.1.9 Cultural Technologies: Exploring appropriate technologies for craft – Koumudi Patil ....................................................................................................67 3.2 Approaches to Engage with Local Communities for Developing Creative Solutions .......................................................................................................... 74 3.2.1 INTACH’s Initiatives – Bindu Manchanda .................................................................................74 3.2.2 Introductory Seminar by the Secretariat ................................................................................. 77 3.3 Training Programme for Experts and Selected Stakeholders ................................ 82 3.3.1 Three-Day International Conference on Urban Heritage for Sustainable Creative Economies ................................................................................................ 82 3.3.2 Relevance of Creative Economy Approach in Sustainable Development: Panel Report – Tanaji Chakravorty ..................................................................86 4. A WAY FORWARD ................................................................................................. 89 5. AcknowLedgements ...................................................................................... 91 6. BIBLIOGRAPHY .................................................................................................... 92 iv Preface We are pleased to present a report on the activities of the Asia Europe Network of Urban Heritage for Sustainable Creative Economies undertaken during the first year of the establishment of the Network. The report has been prepared by the Network Secretariat at INTACH headquarters in New Delhi, India. It was at the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) Experts’ Meeting and Public Forum on Investing in Heritage Cities: Stimulus for Sustainable Tourism and Livelihoods held on 24-25 June 2013 in Yangon, Myanmar, that the idea of setting up a network of experts to address the challenges and potentials related to the notion of creative economies and sustainable management in a historic built environment was first conceived. It took about six months and in December 2013, the network was established under the Creative Networks programme of ASEF. It was mutually agreed amongst all partners that the Secretariat of the Network will be at INTACH. We are happy to report that the primary objectives and key activities planned for the first year of the Network have been mostly achieved with a high level of satisfaction. This report outlines the work-in-progress and we do hope that the Network will continue to grow and multiply in the future. The main aim behind the setting up of the Network was to bring together cultural practitioners and creative professionals to address the key issues related to the sustainable management of heritage cities, and this has been achieved at more than one occasion during this first year. At our consultative meetings and discussion forum, the partners came together