Main aims:
Developing longer-term governance guidelines to underpin robust cultural infrastructure that promotes diversity of cultural expression in cities with due consideration to demographic and digital change; implementing global Sustainable Development Goals at the local level
Target groups:
City society and administration; stakeholders funding, creating and/or interested in cultural content
Expected results:
* Safeguarding, strengthening and expanding diverse cultural content
* Setting objectives and concrete measures of municipal cultural policy for the coming years and creating planning certainty for cultural actors
* Signposting the inclusion of cultural policy in city-wide planning and urban development
* Identifying and protecting the public's cultural interests
* Promoting the transcultural openness of city society
* Establishing and transmitting cities' image as cultural sites across Germany and internationally
* Bringing the activities of city administrations into line with the vision of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Workshops, cultural ateliers, world cafes and interviews held; ideas and feedback gathered from city society in public presentations; alternative visual version created of the Cultural Strategy Making Space for Culture (Kulturstrategie ,,Kultur Raum geben") as a result of an open competition, namely a fold-out poster intended to make the strategy more accessible to the public, available at https://www.chemnitz.de/chemnitz/media/kultur/kulturfoerderung/kulturstr...