The projects of Capital Cities of Culture are presented: Parma 2020-2021; Procida 2022, Bergamo-Brescia 2023; Pesaro 2024.

The meeting-confrontation between the protagonists of these four Italian Capitals of Culture projects will give rise to a particularly dynamic debate, which will highlight the problems connected to emergency aspects such as the pandemic and the power of the culture driver capable of supporting projects of territory based on visions, practices and policies aimed at updating the memory of places.

Places of Culture, especially in the post-Covid era, represent one of the crucial factors of a city’s economy, laboratories of ideas, centers of attraction, comparison, dissemination, socialization. The most important Italian cities have rethought and regenerated entire parts around a museum, a seat of the Cultural Foundation. The villages of the inland areas focus on places of culture and digital technologies to structure their future. Today the urban and territorial role of cultural spaces is expanding, diversifying to the point of taking on completely unexpected characters: it happens that heterogeneous functions are concentrated in them that give rise to multidisciplinary ensembles capable of intercepting different cultural, educational, artistic and experiential needs at the same time …

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Meeting of the Italian UNESCO Creative Cities:

The delegates from Alba, Bergamo and Parma (gastronomy), Biella, Carrara and Fabriano (crafts), Bologna and Pesaro (music), Milan (literature), Rome (cinema) and Turin (design) meet in Turin to take stock after a year of working together.

Modena also participates as a media arts candidate city.

The Regional Committees of Emilia-Romagna and Lombardy meet the experts who followed the nominations supported by the UNESCO Italian National Commission for creative cities of Como and Modena.
For Modena, the Councilor for Culture Andrea Bortolamasi will speak.
Through this event we want to explore the process that led to the proposals of the present candidatures, to know and support the two cities along the way.

Moderate:
Andrea Croci Regional Representative of the Emilia-Romagna Committee
Giulio Del Giudice Regional Representative of the Lombardy Committee

During the month of October there will be events and appointments of national and international impact, with the participation in the wool capital of the Italian UNESCO Creative Cities, the representatives of the National Commission and the UNESCO management and a long series of exponents from the academic world, entrepreneurship. and finance.

The World Congress of Virtual Transdisciplinarity is a worldwide event in which over 42 weeks (through Conferences, Symposia and Round Tables) the latest theoretical and practical developments concerning transdisciplinarity will be addressed and discussed and new approaches, experiences and actions for face the extraordinary challenges of contemporaneity.

Carrara for the Creative Cities, which aims to become an annual event, stems from the attention to the international debate linked to the themes of sustainability, heritage and local identities, proposing itself as a format for a good practice of contamination between knowledge and as a model for urban regeneration.