Cities - CREATIVE INDUSTRIES IN TRADITIONAL INTERCULTURAL SPACES

Dear all,

we are glad to get in touch with you through the first post of the CITIES project which gives a start for a so important extension of the Creative Community! 

We are looking for your membership, for a constructive dialogue between business and cultural sector, good practices and experiences in local/regional/national policy development addressing creative and cultural sectors, reactions to urgent polemics from the regional spaces and suggestions for the improvement.  

The basic trends defining the cultural policies in Europe over the last decade can be named as follows: concentration on the explicit auditing/evaluation/efficiency schemes, regeneration through the arts and creative industries. The considerably new economic ambience still constitutes a challenge for the creative sector in some countries, and therefore, such questions as functioning of the arts market, programme based financing versus maintenance of existing infrastructure, unreformed old structural establishment need to be considered. In the Western countries there is a long-time discussion to what extent the public sector shall be committed to act as a counter to market creative economy and to encourage entrepreneurship of the new artists and start-ups; and how to make the public spaces open for the initiatives creating added value for the cities.

We do hope that the CITIES network will contribute to the fruitful collaboration that would stimulate the improvements and new discourses within the policy addressing creative industries’ field and in this way open new ways for innovations to be spread and developed.

INTERREG IV C gives us the impetus and let join the forces to keep the wheel spinning!
 
Good luck,
CITIES Creative Team