Charles Landry was considered to be the “innovator of the creative city concept”
In order to enrich people’s cultural life and to broaden their cultural horizons, the Cultural Affairs Bureau organizes the “Lectures by Masters of Culture” programme. This year’s lecture “Macao: A Culture of Ambition and Creativity as Catalysts for a Sustainable City” will be held on Sunday, 30 October at 3pm at the Macao Science Centre Convention Hall, hosted by the British keynote speaker Charles Landry, an international authority on the use of imagination and creativity in urban change and known as the “innovator of the creative city concept”. ,.Reservation can be made online or by telephone starting from 22 September. Charles Landry is an international authority in the use of imagination and creativity in urban change. In the late 1980s, he renewed the concept of “creative city”, focusing on how cities can create conditions for people and organizations to think, plan and act with imagination in solving of problems and in the development of opportunities. The notion, which became a global movement, changed the way cities think about their capabilities and resources. Charles Landry has worked and given talks in over sixty countries and helped change the way to assess and harness the possibilities of reinventing cities. His “Creative City Index” is a powerful tool to measure the creative eco-system of places. His works such as The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators and The Digitized City have met great public demand. In this lecture, Charles Landry will share successful cases in famous cultural cities across the world, and will prove that ambition and creativity are the keys to establish a creative city, in addition to cultural events, imagination and creativity he advocates for urban change. He will lead you to think from a new perspective on how to establish a creative, energetic and liveable city. The Cultural Affairs Bureau launched the “Lectures by Masters of Culture” in 2013, inviting world famous scholars, artists and individuals from cultural circles to come to Macao and, through the exchange of experiences and the sharing of knowledge, stimulate thoughts with an international outlook and deepen Macao’s culture, thereby creatively and vigorously contributing for Macao’s cultural development. The lecture will be conducted in English, with simultaneous translation to Mandarin and Portuguese. Admission is free with limited seats. Starting from 22 September reservation can be made online on the webpage www.icm.gov.mo/eform/event, or by telephone at 8399 6699 during office hours. For more information, please visit www.icm.gov.mo/deippub/masters/2016.
