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On November 23rd -24th a new ‘Future City Game’ will take place in Cesis Culture centre, Cesis, Raunas street 12. The purpose of the game is to develop ideas for common cultural and touristic projects and new ways of mutual cooperation among different sectors and different municipalities in Vidzeme.
Tourism specialists, culture managers, artists, craftsmen and students will be looking for the best ideas, new cooperation possibilities, and plans for projects in near future by combining different sectors. During the game key barriers and opportunities will be also identified.
The game is co-organized by Cesis Country council, Culturelab NGO, Vidzemes Planning Region and State Culture Capital Foundation.
Riga’s FCG Games master: Ilona Asare.
This will be the 9th ‘Future City Game’ run in Latvia in 2009 within the project ‘Creative Cities’. More info about the project, current and past activities:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/latvia-projects-creative-cities-past.htm
Photo by Raitis Jelevics.
Future City Game is an activity of British Council’s project Creative Cities. Future City Game is a team based game that is played during a two-day event by the city inhabitants coming from different backgrounds and representing different disciplines and outlooks. The aim of the game is to generate the best idea on how to improve the quality of life in cities — either in a specific area within a city, the city as a whole, or in response to the common challenges facing cities around the world.
Local stakeholders such as municipal authorities, community groups, cultural, educational and urban regeneration agencies choose the theme, location and participants for each game to ensure that it is tailored to the local context. Teams playing the game identify the common challenges facing the city — environmental, social, economic and cultural.
Game players use the specially developed Future City game-kit based on a unique and innovative methodology developed by the British Council, CLES (Centre of Local Economic Strategies), URBIS — an exhibition centre on city life and by other partner-organizations.
See: www.britishcouncil.org/futurecitygame
Please contact Ilze Saleniece for further information about the Creative Cities project in Latvia.
Ilze Saleniece
Projects and Partnerships Manager
Telephone +371 67504107
E-mail ilze.saleniece@britishcouncil.lv
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