6.8.2009
Conference: Cities and Urban Spaces - Chances for Cultural and Citizenship Education
This year's NECE conference refered to radical changes in European cities: migration and mobility tend to undermine the cohesion in many urban societies. Many cities have become complicated entities in which ethnically, socially and culturally segregated communities have developed. Often, extended leeways for individual life designs and collective ways of living are often linked to growing disparity and conflicts of identity and self-assertion.Developments within cities and in urban spaces provide a variety of starting points for new ways of cultural and citizenship education which are being discovered only slowly. 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?
The NECE conference in Trieste can be understood as a laboratory, think tank and project market for different disciplines, methodologies ("expert cultures") and practitioners, bringing together the variety of 'urban' discourses and practices in the cities of Europe in order to look for new approaches to cooperation and projects.
The conference language was English (without translation).
Conference Programme (PDF version: 1.377 KB)
List of Participants (PDF version: 88 KB)
Biography Dossier (PDF version: 1.195 KB)
Opening Event
- Thomas Krüger, President, Federal Agency for Civic Education (Germany), Opening Address
(PDF-Version: 327 KB)
- "The Future of Cities and the Mobilisation of Citizens Creative Potential", Charles Landry, COMEDIA (UK), Key Lecture (PDF-Version: 230 KB)
- Elisabeth Blum, Zurich University of the Arts (Switzerland) (PDF-Version: 393 KB)
- Rolf Kellner, überNormalNull (Germany)
- Charles Landry, COMEDIA (UK)
- Richard Reynolds, Author of the Book "Guerrilla Gardening" (UK) (PDF-Version: 505 KB)
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Panel: Cities and Urban Spaces: Chances for Cultural and Citizenship Education- Wolfgang Kaschuba, Humboldt University Berlin (Germany) (PDF-Version: 879 KB)
- Bruno Losito, Roma Tre University (Italy)
(PDF-Version: 1.032 KB)
Friday, 1 October 2010
Key Lecture Final RemarkDate
29 September - 1 October 2010Venue
Trieste, ItalyOrganiser and Co-operation Partners
In co-operation with
Contact
lab concepts GmbHAnja Ostermann
Am Hofgarten 18
53113 Bonn / Germany
Tel +49 (0)228 2498-110
Fax +49 (0)228 2498-111
nece-trieste@lab-concepts.de
Federal Agency for Civic Education
Petra Grüne
Adenauerallee 86
53113 Bonn
Tel +49 (0)228 99515-289
gruene@bpb.bund.de
