Bologna experience in mission to Japan

Last August, from 22nd to 29th, the Deputy Mayor of Bologna for Urban Planning and Environment, Ms. Valentina Orioli, was in mission to Japan upon invitation of two different cities with which Bologna has been maintaining a good relationship of friendship and partnership for many years: she was first in Kanazawa, which is partner to Bologna within the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, and then in Itabashi, one of the special wards of Tokyo linked to Bologna by a cooperation agreement since 2005.
Hosted by the Kanazawa University and the United Nations University, Ms. Orioli held a speech at the International Symposium on "Livelihoods, Nature and Cultural Landscape", bringing the contribution of Bologna experience.
She was then  in Tokyo, where she met a few representatives of the City of Itabashi, one of the 23 special wards of the metropolitan city of Tokyo. Here, the deputy mayor had a meeting with Mayor Takeshi Sakamoto, who officially announced the intention by the City of Itabashi to build a new home for their public library, to be opened in the year 2020, which will mark the 15th anniversary of the agreement between Bologna and Itabashi and when the City of Tokyo will host the Olympic Games. The new headquarters of the city library is designed to include, on a permanent basis, a children section named after the City of Bologna.
The relationship with Itabashi is one of the most intense and fruitful that Bologna has at international level.
The intense exchange between the two cities dates back to the Eighties, as the Itabashi Art Museum of Tokyo began to host, year after year, a selection of books coming from the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Later on, the relationship between the Bologna and Itabashi increased more and more, until an official cooperation agreement was signed in 2005. During the same year, the city of Itabashi decided to dedicate a children library to the city Bologna, setting it inside one of their primary schools.


City of Itabashi (pdf)

Kanazawa Creative City

 

Ultimo aggiornamento: lunedì 25 settembre 2017