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CIED
CIED - Cultural Innovation and Economic Development
CIED - an Article 10 ERDF project (1997 - 1999)
Volos (Greece) - project leader
Cardiff (Wales/UK)
Galway (Ireland)
Palermo (Italy)
Leipzig (Germany)
Objectives:
- Learn to use, but abuse culture for economic development - Cultural Innovation
- Encourage representations of culture in peripheral regions - Cultural Heritage
- Make consensus become the basis of decision making - Cultural Consensus Measures
- Re-evaluate the role of culture in planning - Cultural Impact Studies
- Relate concrete needs to real constraints - Good Practice Manual
As a European project the aim was to connect culture with economic development by refining planning practices by developing specific cultural tools (cultural calendar, cultural impact studies, cultural consensus measures, cultural sustainability). As extension of Agenda 21 it meant validating decentralization of administrative power by letting people participate and realize bottom-up success stories e.g. Zisa Factory and the entire revitalization of the historic centre in Palermo.
By including in the planning process a user group or a cultural committee made up of citizens, business people, cultural heritage experts, administrators from the city, university experts etc., such planning refinement meant above all to give the cultural sector a voice.
CIED strived towards a 'Good Practice Manual'. That was preceded by the Volos reports from the five cities. It shows how specific local cultures can and do act like filters in selecting and deciding which planning interventions should be undertaken.
Overview:
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