Convention and General Meeting of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network 2009 Report

Creative Design City Nagoya attended the UNESCO Creative Cities Network meeting on June 15-17, 2009. Every year the meeting is held in an appointed city, and it was conducted this year in the city hall of Lyon, France’s second largest city and an appointed Creative City of Media Arts.

The silk fabric industry has flourished in Lyon throughout the ages and the old part of the city (the historical district) has become a UNESCO world heritage site. In addition, the Lyon biennial, which started in 1991, actively profiles contemporary fine arts.

Sixteen of the nineteen appointed cities participated in the meeting with each city presenting its activities performed thus far or scheduled developments as a creative city. Nagoya presented its activities to date and three visions for the future as an appointed Creative City of Design together with the contents of its project in 2009.

Six designated Creative Cities for Design, including Nagoya, held a sub-network meeting, sharing detailed information and discussing future network business opportunities. Each city is to share its calendar for design-related events, and will aim for interaction of people such as designers, creators and researchers.

[Participant cities]
Literature: Edinburgh (U.K.), Melbourne (Australia)
Music: Seville (Spain), Bologna (Italy), Glasgow (U.K.)
Crafts and Folk Art: Santa Fe (U.S.A.), Kanazawa (Japan)
Design: Buenos Aires (Argentina), Berlin (Germany), Montreal (Canada) , Shenzhen (China), Kobe (Japan), Nagoya (Japan)
Media Arts: Lyon (France)
Film: Bradford (U.K.)

Conference at City Hall, Lyon

Presentation of “Design City Nagoya”

Design events in Nagoya, 2008

Three visions of Nagoya

Date:	Monday, 15 - Wednesday, 17 June, 2009
Venue:	the city hall of Lyon
Organizer:	City of Lyon
Co-organizer, etc. :	Co-operation: UNESCO
Link:	Convention and General Meeting of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network 2009