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The Creative Cities Network

Saturday, 2 June 2012 - 01:52 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Around the World / Rund um die Welt
Category/Kategorie: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  3 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The Creative Cities Network is a project under the patronage of UNESCO. With the aim of celebrating and maintaining cultural diversity, the alliance formed by member cities share their experiences in promoting the local heritage, as well as discuss plans on how to cope with the influx of globalization. The Creative Cities Network aims to find and enrich a member city’s cultural identity in the midst of a growing trend towards internationalism.

The project focuses on the main product of excellence of these cities, and finds ways to maintain its relevance in city life, local economy and social development. The fields of excellence are classified among: Literature, Film, Music, Craft and Folk Art, Design, Media Arts, and Gastronomy.

Despite the general knowledge that change (towards modernity) is generated from urbanization, the Network aims to adapt and harness the proliferation of technology and social development to further a city’s product of excellence. In doing so, the city becomes a center for the protection of a past industry and its eventual preservation.

To be a member, interested cities must apply to the network, and meet the criteria set by UNESCO. There are several categories under which cities can apply. These are:

UNESCO City of Design

• Berlin, Germany
• Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Graz, Austria
• Kobe, Japan
• Montreal, Canada
• Nagoya, Japan
• Saint-Étienne, France
• Seoul, South Korea
• Shanghai, China
• Shenzhen, China

UNESCO City of Film

• Bradford, England, United Kingdom
• Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

UNESCO City of Folk Art

• Aswan, Egypt
• Icheon, South Korea
• Kanazawa, Japan
• Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

UNESCO City of Gastronomy

• Chengdu, China
• Östersund, Sweden
• Popayán, Colombia

UNESCO City of Literature

• Dublin, Ireland
• Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
• Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
• Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Reykjavik, Iceland

UNESCO City of Media Arts

• Lyon, France

UNESCO City of Music

• Bogotá, Colombia
• Bologna, Italy
• Ghent, Belgium
• Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
• Seville, Spain

Read more on UNESCO Creative Cities Network and PDF brochure of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.