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CULTURAL INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

-CIED-

DG XVI

Cultural, industrial and arqueological heritage

Challenges and opportunities

LEIPZIG

September, 24th-25th 1998

CIED - a Project of the European Union

The project is funded by the "European Programme for Inter-Regional Co-operation and Regional Economic Innovation" and integrates the five cities: Volos (Greece), Cardiff (GB), Galway (Ireland), Palermo (Italy) and Leipzig (Germany).

The main aim of the project is to examine, how cultural and economic developments can influence one another. Thus possibilities are searched for on how to use "cultural innovation" for (future) economic development, so that culture is not misused, but rather used in the sense of 'culture' for economic development. "Learn to use, but not abuse culture for economic development" is, therefore, one of the most important objectives of the project.

The Theme

The interaction between culture and economy is at the brink of change. In view of rapid social and economic structural changes, the necessity of innovative improvements and of a new definition of "innovation" is more than apparent. That can hardly be made more explicit than in traditionally well-known industrial centres like Leipzig-Plagwitz.

All those building shells which have been robbed of their functions, that is those former monumental industrial architectures, demand explicitly that efforts are made to preserve and to use them anew even if only for aesthetically reasons. This poses the questions: is this industrial heritage a potential for cultural innovation? &endash; can culture - and how - be a catalysis for filling in the existing vacuums? - How can the existing potential contribute towards preserving and developing the cultural identity? - What needs prevail amongst the people of those abandoned areas like

- Leipzig-Plagwitz, which has been selected as

one of the EXPO 2000 projects

- the former coal exchange places / docks / in Cardiff or

- the "forgotten" old part of the city of Palermo like Zisa district?

How can be traced culture and development on the basis of extra value creations?

On hand of selected themes, questions and work tasks, given different premises and experiences, the conference will want to approach from an interdisciplinary angle a possible solution for the factual or also only maintained contradiction between culture and economic development - it should provide the decisive impulse to understand 'cultural innovation' as something to be derived out of the recognition that the cultural, industrial and archaeological heritage of Europe can be the connecting element to innovative economic development.

Aufbauwerk Governmental District Leipzig

and Association of Educational Institutes in Saxony

together with:

Leipzig Development and Restoration Association

Project group City + Development

Cultural Office Leipzig

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