29-09-2010

01-10-2010

Italy, Trieste
Location: The Stazione Marittima Congress Centre, Molo Bersaglieri 3, I-34124 Trieste www.promotrieste.it/congressi/palazzo.aspx

Posted by: citizensofculture

Category: Conference/Symposium

Field: Other

NECE- Networking European Citizenship Education
“Cities and Urban Spaces: Chances for Cultural and Citizenship Education”

www.nece.eu


This year's NECE conference intends to discuss the dramatic changes in European cities in recent decades. Also European cities change radically: migration and mobility undermine the cohesion in many urban societies. Cities have become complicated entities in which ethnically, socially and culturally segregated communities have developed. Extended leeways for individual life designs and collective ways of living are often linked to growing disparity and conflicts of identity and self-assertion.

At the same time, cities provide the breeding ground for new, mostly cultural expressions of civic participation in order to create new forms of public spheres or civic involvement. Artistic and cultural ways of action and interventions may inform and activate the public, new participative ways of urban development may mobilise the citizens’ political and creative potential and support the voices of civil society. Which opportunities and tasks for cultural and citizenship education do result from these new forms and ways of action? May they lead to a reconsideration of previous assumptions and interventions in cultural and citizenship education?

Amongst the main speakers Charles Landry, founder of COMEDIA (UK), a network of collaborators, who share thinking, ideas, projects and initiatives concerned with city life, culture and creativity, Phil Wood (UK) a leading expert in cultural diversity and urban development (Intercultural Cities) as well as Paul Scheffer from the University of Amsterdam, and Wolfgang Kaschuba from the Humboldt University Berlin.

This European conference bringing experts, architects, sociologists, urban planners, artists and multipliers and practitioners in cultural and citizenship education together, intends to exchange experiences from different perspectives besides initiating a dialogue on current challenges for the urban space as well as searching for creative impulses for an urban cultural and citizenship education.

The current conference programme and further information about the NECE initiative, promoted by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Germany), can be found at: www.nece.eu

There is no participation fee! Since the number of conference participants is limited, we ask you to register as soon as possible, the latest by 30 August 2010 at: www.lab-concepts.de/anmeldung/nece-triest

The conference language is English (without translation).

The organisers will not cover accommodation and travel costs!
For more information on accommodation and directions for Trieste, please visit the NECE website: www.nece.eu

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the conference management at:

lab concepts GmbH
Sandra Mayer
Phone: +49 (0)228 2498 116/ Fax: +49 (0)228 2498 111
nece-trieste@lab-concepts.de

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