[Oberlist] IT* CfP: Sustainable City and Creativity, Naples 2008

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Sustainable City and Creativity, Naples 2008
Aula Magna Storica
September 24, 2008 – September 26, 2008


We are pleased to inform you that the International Meeting on
"Sustainable City and Creativity: Promoting Creative Urban Initiatives"
will be held in Naples on 24,25,26 September 2008.
The aim of the Meeting is to analyze in depth principles and practices of
the creative city for the formulation of policy lessons and
recommendations able to contribute to the building of a creative city.
In particular, the attention will be focused on the following issues:
1. what is a creative city; how the creative city actually works, which
are the key features and the critical elements conditioning creativity;
how ideas turn into urban innovations; the drivers stimulating a city to
innovate, the barriers and the constraints;
2. which are the benefits of the creative city in terms of
competitiveness, environment, welfare, social stability, quality of life,
vitality;
3. which are the key assets, infrastructures and tools required to promote
creative processes in cities towards competitive, sustainable and cohesive
places, and how public policy can influence the creative city.
The Scientific Committee - composed by Sir Peter Hall, Tuzin Baycan
Levent, Roberto Camagni, Giuliana Di Fiore, Francesco Forte, Klaus
Kunzmann, John Rees, Peter Nijkamp, Pierluigi Sacco, Roger Stough, Luigi
Fusco Girard - has been involved in order to identify the Meeting
themes/contents. The papers to be presented and then published in a
proceeding volume will be selected.
The Conference will involve representatives from Universities, Research
Centers, international and national public Institutions, business sector
and civil society.
The draft program is attached. As you can see, the Meeting will open with
a Round Table. There will be three Plenary Sessions and two Parallel
Sessions. A Poster Session is expected too.
A final document will be presented as conference outcome, to be sent to
government institutions, city networks and research institutions.
If you have any interest in exchanging research results, experiences, best
practices about the role of creativity in promoting urban city sustainable
development please consider to submit an abstract (30 - 60 lines in
English) for attending the Meeting, specifying the title, your name and
institutional affiliation and the interested Session. The number of
Sessions to be activated will be defined according to the selected papers.
The papers should present theoretical approach (full research paper with
innovative results) and/or practical experiences with ex post evaluation
and lessons learned and/or preliminary ideas with work in progress.


Conference Information
http://www.creativecity2008.eu/ocs/index.php/creativecity2008/SCC


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