Cites+Culture+Climate: A Get-Together for Green Culture, Heritage and Creative Cities

Culture and heritage can help us respond to climate change and transform our cities for a better urban future. Traditional knowledge on how we designed and built cities before the fossil fuel era points the way to post-carbon living. Artistic and imaginative tools challenge business-as-usual mindsets. Collectively, these culture-based approaches allow us to imagine and realise circular, regenerative, low carbon ways of living not dependent on the exploitation of people and nature. The event provides a convivial, informal and inspiring space for private and public actors active in the fields of culture, cultural heritage, and creative industries who are leading transformational climate action at city level to meet, exchange and network. Organised by Europa Nostra, the largest and most representative civil society organisation active in the heritage field in Europe, on behalf of and in close collaboration with the global Climate Heritage Network, the event will bring together diverse local, European, and international urban changemakers who are driving transformative change through art -, heritage- and culture-based climate solutions. To facilitate meaningful dialogue and impactful networking, the event will put forward a series of engaging activities: from thought-provoking ice-breaker exercises to informal inter-generational and interdisciplinary dialogues. Ultimately, the goal would be to foster synergies, inspire collaborations and initiate partnerships for a greener, more inclusive and more sustainable urban future through arts, heritage and culture.