The "Creative Cities" Network is promoted by UNESCO and aims at creating a connection between cities that are able to support cultural creativity and make it an essential point for its own economic development. In order to promote business and culture, the network offers to local operators an international platform on which to convey the creative energy of the Cities, thus paving the way to share local experiences in a global context.
Through this network Cities can share their experiences and support each other, highlighting their own abilities and increasing the presence of their own cultural products in internal and international markets respectively.
Cooperation amongst member cities is also centred on the ability to provide assistance for the creation of new regional and international distribution channels.
Today, the network of Creative Cities includes:
Creative cities for Music
Creative Cities for Design
Creative Cities for Gastronomy
Creative Cities for Media Arts
Creative Cities for Craft and Folk Art
Creative Cities for Literature
Creative Cities for Cinema
The City of Bologna has given PromoBologna - its local development Agency - the task to map the network of associations, agencies and private bodies related to music production.
The survey had the objective to evaluate the economic relevance of musical life within the city, and the measures that need to be developed in this sector, focusing the strategic promotion of the city on the creative and cultural dimension of the urban economy.
On the occasion of the visit in Bologna of the Mayors of Glasgow, Santa Fe and Popayan, on 20th November 2008, a Creative Cities’ Memorandum of Understanding was signed, in which the member cities commit themselves to promote cultural industry and creativity both as a tool to enhance the local economy and as a cooperation area among them.
» "Creative Cities" Memorandum of Understanding (PDF, 13 kb)
Redazione Iperbole
- Settore Comunicazione e Rapporto con la Cittadini
- Comune di Bologna
Updated: 09 07 2009
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