SI – South Italy Architecture Festival
The Art of Creative City Making by Charles Landry
The Art of Creative City Making by Charles Landry is an exhibition-event that celebrates the use of imagination and creativity as crucial strategic resources in the process of city change and regeneration, seeing them as powerful vectors that can influence – decisively and positively – the quality of life of individuals who live in the urban context.
Unanimously considered an international authority on the subject, Charles Landry is the theoretical visionary who coined the term/concept Creative City at the end of the eighties – and then deepened and expanded this new definition through significant subsequent reflections.
His insights, formulated in numerous published works, provide original and innovative instruments for those who – through public or private initiatives – intend to resort to the use of creativity to plan present and future cities. His work, developed over a period of forty years, aims to identify the potential of urban communities, with the objective of helping them convert their weaknesses into opportunities, by developing models to improve the city that are more self-sufficient, resilient and competitive.
The ideas of Charles Landry, constantly updated, and always expressed in accordance with stimulating formulas, have inspired a global movement and changed the way cities reflect on their abilities and resources.
In Favara, in the spaces of Palazzo Miccichè and in the context of the SI – South Italy Architecture Festival, is an exhibition – for the first time ever – dedicated to the theoretical and practical thinking of this extraordinary author and leading expert of the Creative City as well as the art of City Making.
The event itself is presented by an ambitious and original formula: paper posters exhibited across numerous interior walls and graphic stands as well as on the street. The aim is to create a visually striking story. On these posters, as in Landry’s work, the word assumes the role of carrier, useful for triggering every form of reasoning, giving shape and substance to the proposed themes: the written texts, whether synthetic or dense, are accompanied by evocative graphics and photographs taken by the Landry himself over the course of his career and during numerous journeys across the urban realities of our Planet.
The curatorship of this important event, by Marco Rainò, intends to present The Art of Creative City Making by Charles Landry as an experiment designed to communicate a selected series of concepts in the simplest way, that is both transversal and as effective as possible, with a willingness to make them accessible to all and invite every visitor to feel part of a unique, grand movement of action, of a broad and pervasive community of individuals who desire to live in a city that continues to improve.
The creative art of “making the city” is a practice based on the growth of knowledge as much as on dialogue and sharing: to exercise it through daily action leads to objective public benefits that enhance and strengthen the relationships between human beings.
Being citizens today also means taking a proactive approach and a participative attitude, whereby we proudly assert our own important role as a City Maker among other City Makers.
Promoted by Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali
Supported by British Council
The Art of Creative City Making by Charles Landry is an exhibition-event that celebrates the use of imagination and creativity as crucial strategic resources in the process of city change and regeneration, seeing them as powerful vectors that can influence – decisively and positively – the quality of life of individuals who live in the urban context.
Unanimously considered an international authority on the subject, Charles Landry is the theoretical visionary who coined the term/concept Creative City at the end of the eighties – and then deepened and expanded this new definition through significant subsequent reflections.
His insights, formulated in numerous published works, provide original and innovative instruments for those who – through public or private initiatives – intend to resort to the use of creativity to plan present and future cities. His work, developed over a period of forty years, aims to identify the potential of urban communities, with the objective of helping them convert their weaknesses into opportunities, by developing models to improve the city that are more self-sufficient, resilient and competitive.
The ideas of Charles Landry, constantly updated, and always expressed in accordance with stimulating formulas, have inspired a global movement and changed the way cities reflect on their abilities and resources.
In Favara, in the spaces of Palazzo Miccichè and in the context of the SI – South Italy Architecture Festival, is an exhibition – for the first time ever – dedicated to the theoretical and practical thinking of this extraordinary author and leading expert of the Creative City as well as the art of City Making.
The event itself is presented by an ambitious and original formula: paper posters exhibited across numerous interior walls and graphic stands as well as on the street. The aim is to create a visually striking story. On these posters, as in Landry’s work, the word assumes the role of carrier, useful for triggering every form of reasoning, giving shape and substance to the proposed themes: the written texts, whether synthetic or dense, are accompanied by evocative graphics and photographs taken by the Landry himself over the course of his career and during numerous journeys across the urban realities of our Planet.
The curatorship of this important event, by Marco Rainò, intends to present The Art of Creative City Making by Charles Landry as an experiment designed to communicate a selected series of concepts in the simplest way, that is both transversal and as effective as possible, with a willingness to make them accessible to all and invite every visitor to feel part of a unique, grand movement of action, of a broad and pervasive community of individuals who desire to live in a city that continues to improve.
The creative art of “making the city” is a practice based on the growth of knowledge as much as on dialogue and sharing: to exercise it through daily action leads to objective public benefits that enhance and strengthen the relationships between human beings.
Being citizens today also means taking a proactive approach and a participative attitude, whereby we proudly assert our own important role as a City Maker among other City Makers.
Promoted by Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali
Supported by British Council
