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The extended report (59 pages) is now available: click here for download (PDF file). The longer report contains detailed discussions from the workshop exchanges, as well as several ‘good practice’ cases and further reflections elaborated by workshop participants in the weeks following the workshop.

On October 2-3 2010, Sacha Kagan of the Institute of Cultural Theory, Research and the Arts (IKKK, Leuphana University Lueneburg) organized a workshop together with Prof. Dr. Masayuki Sasaki, director of the Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University, for the Asia Europe Foundation (ASEF), as part of the official side-event of the 8th ASEM Summit of Heads of State, i.e. the 4th « Connecting Civil Societies Conference » in Brussels.

Workshop participants discussed issues related to « Sustainable Creative Cities: the role of the arts in globalised urban contexts » and elaborated policy recommendations for the ASEM Summit.

Besides the extended report edited by Sacha Kagan and Katelijn Verstraete (Assistant Director, Department of Cultural Exchange, ASEF) which we are releasing now, a 4-pages briefing report was already released on November 18th 2010: Click here for direct download: PDF file ; click here for the news item on the Culture360 webportal (from Nov. 18th 2010 when the briefing report was released).

Source : Sacha Kagan*

*Sacha Kagan is :

• Research associate at the Leuphana University Lueneburg, Institute for Theory and Research on Culture and the Arts (IKKK) – Since 2005
• Founding Coordinator of Cultura21 International – Cultural Fieldworks for Sustainability: a network gathering artists, scientists and other cultural practitioners engaged for cultures of sustainability – Since 2007
• Founding member of Cultura21 Germany (Verein Institut Cultura21 e.V.) –Since 2006
• Member of the International Humanitarian Studies Association (IHSA) –Since 2009
• Member of the expert commission on the role of culture in the transition to an ecological age, commissioned by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) alongside COP15
• Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in the World, 27th edition, 2010

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