Cultural Infrastructure: Fostering digital creative startups in Chengdu
Chengdu’s first municipal policy for digital cultural startups provides funding, rent-free workspaces, R&D and housing support to nurture early-stage ventures, strengthening the city’s role as a hub for creative.
Impact Measurement: Dubai’s first ever creative impact report shows culture is a huge economic driver for local and foreign investment
Dubai’s first Creative Impact Report reveals that the city’s cultural and creative industries contribute significantly to GDP, jobs, and foreign investment, positioning culture as a central driver of economic.
Heritage Innovation: How Guangzhou developed its intangible heritage into culture-led design and lifestyle products
'Recommended Gifts from the Bay Area' is a cultural innovation initiative from Guangzhou that transforms Lingnan intangible heritage - like food, opera, and folk festivals - into modern design.
Heritage Infrastructure: Transforming İstanbul’s 19th-century Rami Barracks into Rami Library
The transformation of İstanbul’s 19th-century Rami Barracks into the Rami Library has created one of Türkiye’s largest cultural hubs, blending heritage conservation with innovative services to support lifelong learning,.
Cultural Olympiad: Joint Los Angeles-Paris poster competition strengthens Olympic values and culture
The 2024 Paris Cultural Olympiad Poster Competition connected art students from Paris and Los Angeles in a cross-city collaboration that celebrates Olympic values, civic engagement, and cultural diplomacy. Organised.
Participatory Murals: A ‘Name in Every Neighbourhood’ of Milan
Project: Engaging residents to create shared collaborative neighbourhood murals to affirm cultural identity and increase social cohesion
Serena Confalonieri designs the mural 'Città Studi' - Photo Credit: Wit Design
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A Voice for Youth in Montréal
Montréal is embedding youth perspectives into cultural policymaking through two initiatives: 'A Library That Looks Like Me' and the 'Manifesto of Montréal Youth for the Arts and Culture'. These.
Digital Heritage: How Nanjing enriched its City of Literature heritage with digital technology
Nanjing, with its 1,800-year literary heritage, transformed its cultural narrative through digital innovation. By leveraging big data, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and augmented reality, the City of Literature’s heritage.
Cultural Infrastructure: How Paris integrated a media library and a refugee house
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.
A New Era for Vienna’s City Museum
Reopened in 2023 after a major city-funded renovation, the Wien Museum blends architectural preservation with bold expansion. A ‘floating’ concrete cube adds two new floors of exhibition space, while.