--- title: Education type: taxonomy_archive taxonomy: post_tag slug: education term_id: 366 permalink: "https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/tag/education/" post_count: 37 --- # Education Posts in this archive: 37 - [Library Strategy: How Lisbon Library Network is strengthening libraries as a cultural and social ecosystem](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/lisbon-library-network.md) — The Lisbon Library Network functions as an integrated municipal system connecting libraries across the city’s neighbourhoods. The network’s Strategic Programme 2025–2035 ensures that this ecosystem continues to thrive, adapting to technological, social and urban transformations while reinforcing the library’s role at the heart of Lisbon’s cultural policy. - [Cultural Appreciation: How Nanjing is integrating aesthetic education into urban life](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/nanjing-social-aesthetic-education-initiative.md) — In 2024, Nanjing launched a cultural strategy focused on three areas: revitalising public spaces, nurturing humanistic aesthetic values, and promoting city-wide aesthetic awareness. 53 projects were piloted to engage citizens with art and beauty through public space revitalization, evening classes, and cultural programming. Supported by digital campaigns and volunteer networks, the initiative enhances cultural wellbeing and offers a replicable model for embedding aesthetic education into urban policy and city planning. - [How Nanjing brings classical literature to life through immersive experience ](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/literary-heritage-how-nanjing-brings-classical-literature-to-life-through-immersive-experience.md) — Nanjing’s immersive adaptation of Dream of the Red Chamber redefines how traditional literary IP can engage modern audiences. Debuting in July 2024, this digitally driven exhibition attracted over 10,000 visitors and generated more than one million RMB, while sparking renewed interest in Chinese literary heritage among youth. By blending immersive tech with cultural storytelling, the project exemplifies how cities can make classical literature relevant for new generations. - [Cultural Infrastructure: How Paris integrated a media library and a refugee house](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/james-baldwin-media-library-and-refugee-house-paris.md) — The James-Baldwin Media Library and the Refugee House form a pioneering dual institution located in the former Jean-Quarré High School in Paris’s 19th arrondissement. Designed to serve both local residents and newcomers, this collaborative cultural and social hub fosters community integration, mutual understanding, and inclusive access to public services. The two facilities represent a bold response to contemporary urban challenges through innovative use of public space. - [Library Lab: Stockholm using UX methods to improve libraries](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/stockholm-library-lab.md) — To deepen cultural participation, Stockholm City Library has embedded user experience (UX) methods into daily practice across its 40 branches. At the Library Lab in Liljeholmen, launched in 2024 as a four-year experiment, staff use agile, user-led sprints to co-design future library services with local residents. From parent breakfasts to youth-led space redesigns, the Lab gathers insights to inform a major new library. The initiative has become a model for inclusive, needs-driven cultural infrastructure. - [Foto Wien: Strengthening Vienna’s cultural infrastructure ](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/vienna-foto-arsenal-wien.md) — Foto Arsenal Wien is a publicly funded institution dedicated to contemporary photography and lens-based media. Following a EUR 3 million renovation of a historic building in the Arsenal complex, it offers exhibitions, workshops, and education programmes for all ages. With state-of-the-art facilities and up to 12 shows annually, it has quickly become a cornerstone of Vienna’s cultural infrastructure and a leading venue for photographic innovation and public engagement. - [One Dublin, One Book brings the city together through literature](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/one-dublin-one-book-2.md) — Every April since 2005, Dublin residents have been encouraged to read the same book either written by a Dubliner or connected with the capital city, through the One Dublin, One Book campaign. To mark the 20th year of this mass cultural participation event, Dublin City Council and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature commissioned an anthology of 22 poets and writers to capture Dublin in the first quarter of the century. - [Paris collaborates with Dakar to support the next generation of creative entrepreneurs](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/paris-collaborates-with-dakar-to-support-the-next-generation-of-creative-entrepreneurs.md) — From training robotics in schools to offering free workspace, the Teranga Tech Incub' is a network of incubator spaces to help young entrepreneurs flourish in Sénégal. It was launched in 2018 by The French Embassy in Sénégal through the Institut Francais du Sénégal, the governmental organisation supporting French language and culture internationally. - [Is the power shift in cultural education driven by cities? ](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/is-the-power-shift-in-cultural-education-driven-by-cities.md) — Statistics from NASA reveal that 98% of 5-year-old children fall into the "genius category of imagination." However, this number drops to 12% for 15-year-olds and further decreases to 2% for adults. It's disheartening that many schools don’t focus enough on developing curiosity and creativity. - [Nanjing transforms its literary legacy into a modern marvel](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/nanjing-transforms-its-literary-legacy-into-a-modern-marvel.md) — Nanjing was formerly the home of China's oldest literary museum and aims to capitalize on this aspect of its history, using it as a foundation for local and tourist engagement. - [2023 Year In Review](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/2023-year-in-review.md) — As the year draws to a close, we look back at nine key moments for the World Cites Culture Forum network in 2023. - [P.A.R.T.Y in Chicago: engaging communities through art for urban transformation](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/chicago-p-a-r-t-y-public-art-reimaging-tour-with-youchicago.md) — Chicago identified priority investment corridors in each neighborhood for streetscape and public realm enhancements, including new roadways, sidewalks, light poles, bike lanes, landscaping and community plazas. - [How Shenzhen's Nantou ancient city preserves its 1,700-year heritage amidst urban development](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/nantou-ancient-city-neighborhood-renovation.md) — Nantou Ancient City renovation project was set up to preserve and enhance a historically significant district in Shenzhen with a rich history spanning over 1,700 years. This district is known for its cultural importance and its transformation into a modern, integrated community that seamlessly blends its historical and contemporary elements - [The art of participation: 'Creative December' and its evolving role in Shenzhen](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/creative-december.md) — Creative December has become an important cultural festival for Shenzhen citizens. - ['Summer in the City of Rams': how the campaign model is bridging heritage and modern culture in Guangzhou](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/summer-in-the-city-of-rams-guangzhou-citizens-cultural-season.md) — The Guangzhou government has been keen to upgrade the cultural offer of the city, to revitalise its traditional culture, and offer more artistic activities to the general public. - [How Milan's 'Accessible Present' event is driving a movement for diversity in the performing arts](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/presenti-accessibiliti-accessible-present.md) — Presenti Accessibili | Accessible Present took place from 27-29 April 2022 in Milan, offering workshops, meetings, and performances to raise awareness of accessibility in the performing arts for people with disabilities. - [Redefining green space: Milan's botanical garden is a hub for creativity](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/milan-bam-biblioteca-alberi-the-trees-librarymilan.md) — The urban regeneration of the di Porta Nuova area began in 1999, with the creation of the Biblioteca Alberi Park in 2017 as its final stage. The 7,500 square meter green space was developed from scratch from bare earth, with a planting design based around three species of trees, that gives the area its name. - [Driving equity forward: Los Angeles County's cultural strategy](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/los-angeles-countywide-cultural-policy-2.md) — In 2017, Los Angeles County's Cultural Equity & Inclusion Initiative (CEII) issued a report with a set of recommendations to ensure that everyone in Los Angeles County has equitable access to arts and culture, and to embed the arts in policy and services. - [Apathy to art: how Oslo's 'Keys to the City' unlocks artistic potential](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/oslo-keys-to-the-city-2.md) — Oslo’s cultural institutions offer its citizens a wide array of events and experiences, but some audience demographics rarely take advantage of them. The Keys to the City project targets groups of 15-25 year olds living in Oslo and the surrounding region, inviting them to develop a deeper relationship with cultural institutions, and get a better understanding of the range of careers in the sector. - [San Francisco responds to demands for positive representation of indigenous communities](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/san-francisco-removal-of-early-days-from-pioneer-movement.md) — Over the past few decades, Indigenous communities have organised to demand for their rights for self-determination and positive representation. Increasingly, these cities have been working to address the issue, though the process is often complicated and highly polarised. - [Art meets architecture: fusing Stockholm's cultural heritage](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/stockholm-cultural-heritage-in-urban-planning.md) — The City is continually working to embed cultural heritage as part of current and future development activity. The City’s Culture Department is the cities expert on cultural landscape and heritage and referral body in city planning projects. - [One Tokyo, many voices: empowering equality and diversity in culture](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/tokyo-creative-well-being-project.md) — Tokyo has a rich cultural offer, but this has not always been easy to access for some diverse, disabled and otherwise marginalised inhabitants of the city. Therefore since 2021, the Creative Well-being Tokyo project has worked towards embedding better inclusion strategies at its cultural institutions. - [How Dublin is shaping its civic soul through cultural engagement](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/culture-connects-dublins-community-created-outlets.md) — Making cultural offerings appealing and more accessible to residents to ensure engagement and ongoing participation. - [How Brasília is shaping the city into a thriving hub of creative excellence ](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/conexa-cultura-culture-connection.md) — Brasilia is developing its creative businesses through a funding support programme that aims to up-skill creative workers and enhance the reputation of the city for cultural excellence on a wider stage.  - [Toronto's monumental shift: Dundas Street renaming sparks global conversation](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/renaming-dundas-street.md) — Reconsidering statues and street names in the public realm and ensuring that the most impacted community voices are heard. - [A stage for all: Zürich introduces transparent funding model with Kultur labour](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/culture-laboratory-zurich.md) — To diversify performing arts offerings, a new funding format has created a collaborative process between artists and experts from science, society and research settings. - [Cultural players help shape Montréal's game-changing equity index](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/indice-dequite-ide-diversity-and-equity-index-tool.md) — A comprehensive review of diversity in Montreal's cultural organisations and festivals, to create a tool that provides an accurate understanding of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts by cultural organisations. - [Creative wellbeing: mental health and wellness for youth in county systems in Los Angeles](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/creative-wellbeing.md) — Through decades of arts-based programming, research, and experience, LA County has seen firsthand how healing-informed arts activities provide youth with an opportunity to learn new skills and express their thoughts or ideas in a creative and therapeutic way. - [How a citizen-led project reconnects Lisbon's elderly with their communities](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/neighbourhood-lives-and-memories.md) — Reducing isolation and loneliness among the elderly population whilst gathering the history and memories of the city's older generation. - [From Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to The Marriage of Figaro: dementia-friendly performances in Edinburgh](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/forget-me-not-dementia-friendly-communities-project.md) — Edinburgh is opening hearts and minds by creating a supportive performance environment for audiences living with dementia. - [A look at how a Brazilian orchestra is bringing harmony to hospitals](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/health-concerts.md) — To alleviate the stress associated with hospital visits and improve wellbeing, live music is being brought to the hospitals of Brasília. - [Breaking down barriers: how the 'ACCESS' programme helps promote culture for all](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/access-culture-for-all.md) — This international collaboration included included Amsterdam, Dublin, Lisbon, London, Sofia, Riga, Tallinn, and Vilnius, this network collaborated, to understand how to make cultural policymaking accessible for every citizen. - [THE GOLDEN THREAD: CULTURE AND SPORT IN PARIS AND LOS ANGELES](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/the-golden-threat-culture-and-sport-in-paris-and-la.md) — As part of our Leadership Exchange Programme supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, cultural leaders from Los Angeles and Paris shared plans for their cultural programme as hosts of Olympics Games Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028 - [Creative Recovery? The Role of Cultural Policy in Shaping Post-COVID Urban Futures 2022](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/publication/creative-recovery-the-role-of-cultural-policy-in-shaping-post-covid-urban-futures.md) — Since the outbreak of Covid-19, cities across the world continue to grapple with the pandemic’s devastating impact on culture and the creative industries. The pandemic exposed the precarious livelihoods of creative workers and the fragility of cultural institutions. But the crisis also revealed the unique power of art and culture too. - [Protecting London's Cultural Fabric: A Deep Dive into the Culture at Risk Program](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/how-to-protect-culture-at-risk.md) — What happens when high rents, planning changes, and business rate increases put spaces for culture at risk? Learnings from our New York and London Leadership Exchange - [INSIGHTS FROM HELSINKI: KING'S COLLEGE REFLECT ON ANNUAL SUMMIT](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/creative-recovery-project-with-kings-college-london.md) — Dr Jonathan Gross and Dr Lucy McFadzean from King’s College London reflect on World Cities Culture Forum Summit 2022 and our new research collaboration investigating the role of cultural policy in post-COVID urban futures. - [World Cities Culture Report 2014](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/publication/world-cities-culture-report-2014.md) — Cities are leading economic growth across the world. Urbanisation will be one of the defining stories of this century, a driver of international growth and central to the recovery of the global and national economies.