Focus Cinema Victoria
2, Ciprian Porumbescu Street, Timișoara
VECTOR TM. Culture as Urban Practice International Seminar
The title of European Capital of Culture is a chance for city-transformation. It works as a laboratory for condensed urban processes, an opportunity to accelerate decision-making and to enter the public agenda. The urban laboratory ”Timișoara - European Capital of Culture in 2023” proposed, tested and validated a series of formats for activating the built and natural heritage, tools of cultural intervention in the public space, methods of intensifying the urban identity - all brought to an unprecedented level. These practices are catalysts for the creation of broader strategies with a stronger cultural angle, legislative improvements, local and national public policies.
Co-curators
Cosmina Goagea, Raluca Iacob, Ramona Laczko David, Eugen Pănescu
DEC
08
DEC
09
Speakers
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Visions for the city: culture-led urban transformation and policy-making
Dec 8th, 09:30 - 11:30
For Timișoara, the European Capital of Culture title meant looking at the city within a European context. It opened a dialogue with other cities and with the principles shared in the European cultural and urban agendas. The National Cultural programme „Timișoara – European Capital of Culture in 2023” generated debates and led to a new understanding of the urbanism of the future. It provoked important areas of reflection and it provided content to imagine new answers to strategic policy questions, such as what is the city (and the society) we want to live in and what role does culture play in shaping it.
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Decision-making in support of culture-led urban transformation
Dec 8th, 12:00 - 14:00
Culture is a public responsibility, whose existence involves various actors and resources, from infrastructure to money, that are to a great extent built on political visions for the city. A series of practices within the National Cultural programme „Timișoara – European Capital of Culture in 2023” focused on the built heritage and activated the public space. They also generated different types of partnerships, a shared vision and ambitions, that can trigger an integrated urban regeneration of key spaces in the city. What is the role of public decision-makers to support these vectors of positive change of the city, as they have been generated by the National Cultural programme „Timișoara – European Capital of Culture in 2023”?
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Cultural practices as policy shapers and city-creators
Dec 9th, 10:00 - 11:30
The National Cultural programme „Timișoara – European Capital of Culture in 2023” put to work a new civic energy, and contributed to Timisoara's identity as an avant-garde, multi-cultural and dynamic space, a place where worlds meet and find common languages in real time, shaping the culture of being together, of people being the real city. We are witnessing this co-creation with a multitude of stakeholders, and collaboration is essential. Where and under what conditions are the links between bottom-up city-making and top-down urban policy implementation made? How can participatory practices and collective governance of projects and institutions change how we imagine building the city?
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Connecting the dots. Policy, politics and practice work together
Dec 9th, 12:00 - 11:30
Conclusions, insights and guidance for the follow-up process in 2024 to better link policy making, decision-making and practices to enhance and consolidate the positive outcomes of the National Cultural programme „Timișoara – European Capital of Culture in 2023”.
