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The Creative Environment And Urban Planning Became Part Of Saint-Petersburg Cultural Forum

23 September 2016

A section «Creative environment and urban planning» will be represented for the first time within the framework of the V International Cultural Forum dated 1–3 December 2016. It will be held under the guidance of the chief architect of Moscow Sergey Kuznetsov, with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Government of Moscow and the Moscow Committee for architecture.

Pride of place goes to the culture in the formation of human capital assets, creating a knowledge-based economy within the Concept of long-term socio-economic development of the Russian Federation till 2020. Saint-Petersburg International Cultural Forum is an immense event in its scope and significance, which allows participants to engage in dialogue, to find dynamic and creative ways to solve the main issues and challenges of the XXI century. Section «creative environment and urban planning» will be presented at the Forum for the first time.

«We are grateful to the organizers of the Forum for making the cultural environment formation issues from the standpoint of architecture and urban planning a part of the Forum. Successful cities combining vast cultural, educational and social activities along with the convenient facilities and comfortable environment form an integral type of a citizen and become a center of attraction for tourists. A combination of different types of cultural and educational facilities featly integrated into the urban fabric, taking into account the already established development, allows satisfying the demand of the majority of population and guests of the cities», — notes the curator of the section, the chief architect of Moscow, Sergey Kuznetsov.

The Forum will be attended by the members of the Russian Government, the Ministry of Education of the RF, Government of Moscow, the foreign city development, architecture and urban planning experts, representatives of leading Russian and foreign universities.

On December 1, 2016 a plenary session «Culture as a driver of urban development» will be held. The key agenda issues are as follows: the impact of culture on the population life quality, the formation of the socio-economic and cultural city development strategies, building the respective infrastructure base, state and federal special-purpose programs, the development of tourism sector, international humanitarian and cultural cooperation.

The harmonious development of city assumes the presence of various functionality, which allows not only satisfying domestic, but also cultural, educational, scientific and educational needs of the residents. Successful cities, combining vast cultural, educational and social activities along with convenient infrastructure and comfortable environment form an integral type of a citizen and become a center of attraction for tourists.

Within the framework of section «Creative environment and urban planning» on 1-3 December 2016 two sessions are planned:

SESSION: «RUSSIA IN THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF COORDINATES»

Full-scale development of cultural initiatives, obtaining versatile competent assessments of creative results in various sectors are impossible without representation of the country at the international level. Architecture and urban development are very specific forms of creativity, where creativity object is invisible, and it is possible to get a full picture of it only after country and city visiting. The session is dedicated to discussion of the issues of participation of Russia in international cultural institutions as exemplified by Venice Architecture Biennale, where the project V.D.N.H. URBAN PHENOMENON was represented.

SESSION: «ARCHITECTURE OF CULTURAL FACILITIES AND COMPETITIVE PRACTICES»

The session will be dedicated to the discussion of the issues of architectural competitions influence on the quality of the facilities, the educatory aspect of the competitive architectural practice and its impact on the formation of multinational consortia of experts of various professions forming the best competitive solutions and allowing mutual enrichment with local and international experience.

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V St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum — is an international platform for networking, open dialogue and expertise exchange between culture professionals, government representatives, politicians and business- men from around the world. It is a great opportunity to discuss major trends and problems currently taking place in the development of the global and the Russian national culture. This is a place where culture profes- sionals can communicate with the potential partners and investors.

The 2015 Forum in figures:

— 256 events

— 82 venues

— 11 thousand participants

Out of those there were 46 official delegations, with over a thousand participants representing 79 countries.

REGISTRATION for participation in the V Saint-Petersburg International Cultural Forum is open till November 1, 2016. Link: https://cf2016.ru/register/

Regarding Mass Media accreditation: media@culturalforum.ru

Regarding participation and registration: participants@culturalforum.ru

Telephone number: +7 (812) 314-53-33; Fax: +7 (812) 314-94-33

For further information please contact:

Irina Kuznetsova: +7 (962) 950-33-33,

E-mail: kuznetsova.mka@gmail.com, press.mka@gmail.com


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