The UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) was created in 2004 to promote cooperation with and among cities that have identified creativity as a strategic factor for sustainable urban development.
The 180 cities which currently make up this network work together towards a common objective: placing creativity and cultural industries at the heart of their development plans at the local level and cooperating actively at the international level.
The Network covers seven creative fields: Crafts and Folk Arts, Media Arts, Film, Design, Gastronomy, Literature and Music.
The Italian Creative City of Crafts and Folk, Fabriano, has been selected to host the Annual Meeting of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in 2019.
Designated in 2013 for its longstanding know-how in Crafts and Folk Art, notably its renowned hand-made paper, Fabriano will share with all member cities how the city is putting culture and creativity at the core of its economic and social development.
The foreseen theme of the meeting is “Culture – Creativity – Innovation – Inclusion: The Ideal City” echoing to the well-known painting “La città Ideale” (The Ideal City), currently kept in the Palazzo Ducale of the city of Urbino, and which conveys the values that in a well-ordered society, architecture stands as a metaphor for good city planning and government.
VENUE:
Italy, Fabriano
10-15 June 2019
Original source: UNESCO
Published on 13 May 2019
