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Intercultural Cities Conference
1-3 May 2008 - St Georges Hall, Liverpool
DRAFT PROGRAMME OUTLINE - at 1 Feb 08
Please note that the following is subject to change
Wednesday 30 April
Welcome Reception at Liverpool Town Hall
Thursday 1 May
St George's Hall
Registration
Opening and Welcome:
Sir Bob Scott -
Liverpool 08, Cities on the Edge
Vladimír Šucha –
European Commission
Outside Eye
Messages from ordinary people around the world on what "being intercultural" means to them and what are the issues that the conference should be dealing with.
Introduction
Phil Wood and Charles Landry – Conference Directors
What is the Intercultural City?
Including presentations from Saskia Sassen (The world in one city), Ash Amin (In search of the good city) Gregg Pascal Zachary (Mongrelize or die: realising diversity advantage), Lord Bhikhu Parekh (Re-thinking multiculturalism) and Leonie Sandercock (Intercultural city planning and place-making). Chair Carol Coletta.
Pecha Kucha 1
Short, sharp and to the point. Presenters will include:
Fernando
Barbosa - Madrid’s radical agenda for migration,
citizenship and living together
Franco
Bianchini – Cities on the
Edge: intercultural experiences of 6 port cities: Liverpool, Naples,
Istanbul, Bremen,
Marseille and Gdansk.
Maurice
Irfan Coles - Experiences
of intercultural schooling from Leicester and Birmingham
Irena
Guidikova – experiences
from the Council of Europe’s network of 12 Intercultural Cities
Patrick
Hanfling - Sense of
Place: a new kind of community planning in Manchester
Susanne Justesen - How the world’s leading companies innovate with
diversity
Marjolijn
Masselink - Opening up
the city: the case of City Safari in Rotterdam
Gari Pavkovic – The city of Stuttgart’s ‘Pact for Integration’.
Geoff
Thompson MBE - Sport, the
intercultural playing field: a case study from Liverpool
Ideas Market Place
An opportunity for delegates to meet in small groups with one or more of the presenters - or to set out their own stall.
The day includes refreshment breaks and lunch.
Evening dinner and entertainment at St George's Hall
This includes a film screening of the award-winning documentary When
Strangers Become Neighbours by Leonie Sandercock and Giovanni Attili, who
will both be present to answer and discuss any questions. The film tells the story
of the Collingwood Neighbourhood House in a multi-ethnic quarter of Vancouver, and its inspirational role in
bringing diverse communities together and empowering them to plan the future of
their neighbourhood. See the trailer here.
Friday 2 May
St George's Hall
Summary of Previous Day
Robert Palmer (Council of Europe)
Leading the Intercultural City
City politicians on film and in person will debate the policies and programmes that work - including Pascal
Bonniel-Chalier (Deputy Mayor of Lyon), Flo Clucas (Cabinet Member of Liverpool City Council) and Ilda Curti (Deputy Mayor of Torino), Catherine Cullen (Deputy
Mayor of Lille) and chaired by Greg Clark.
The
British Council in the Intercultural City
Martin
Davidson (Chief Executive, The British Council)
Pecha Kuchu 2
Short sharp and to the point. Presenters will include:
Jude Bloomfield – Find the intercultural leaders and innovators in your city
Richard Brecknock - City planning with intercultural competence
Keith Khan - London Olympics 2012 as an intercultural spectacle
Milica Pesic - The Media: part of the problem or the solution?
Max Nathan - Can diversity make cities more prosperous?
Jan Niessen - How intercultural is your city and how to measure it?
World Café
An exploration of the big themes of the conference.
Delegates will engage in discussion on specific topics in round-table groups with moderators mapping emerging ideas and policy directions. Facilitated by Claire Chidley.
Summing-up
Reflections from the Keynote Listeners and World Café moderators. Featuring Ranjit Sondhi, Franco Bianchini and Carol Coletta.
The day includes refreshment breaks and lunch.
Dinner at Anfield, the home of Liverpool Football Club (optional)
Featuring Comedian Shazia Mirza
Saturday 3 May
A unique opportunity to experience one of four examples of intercultural dialogue in Liverpool ...
The Contemporary Urban Centre – a new intercultural
institution?
In
1981 Toxteth, Liverpool’s traditional
multi-ethnic quarter, experienced serious civil disturbances. The subsequent
enquiry by the judge Lord Scarman triggered new thinking about race relations
and urban regeneration that has had a profound influence on the whole of
Britain. One outcome was the founding of the Scarman Trust a national
organisation committed to helping disadvantaged citizens bring about change in
their community. Now a partnership with social housing and employment
specialist, Novas has led to the creation of Contemporary Urban Centres (CUC)
in several cities. The largest of these has just opened with the conversion of
a 17,000 square metre derelict warehouse in Toxteth.
Visitors
will see the spectacular new business and arts centre, but even more
significantly will hear the story of hope and co-operation rising above
adversity, which created it, and ask whether the CUC is a model for a new kind
of intercultural institution.
http://www.novasscarman.org/contemporary-urban-centres/north-west
The Intercultural Workplace
Hosted by Jobs Education and Training Manager, Liverpool City Council
Paul
Amann believes that diverse communities will ultimately only live together if
they are working and achieving prosperity together. So the intercultural city
can only be made realistic and sustainable through economic empowerment. He
will take us on a tour with an economic development perspective of a city which
has undergone cataclysmic industrial change and restructuring, and look at how
growth can now be achieved in ways that unite rather than divide communities.
For example, how do you enable new migrants to find work and business
opportunities in the city without alienating traditional local communities who
may have experienced generations of unemployment?
Building a New Intercultural Community
Hosted by Martin Pinder,
Kensington Regeneration
Kensington has been an area of white working class communities,
struggling with job losses and decaying urban fabric, that has recently
received significant levels of foreign migrant settlement. How can tradition
social networks be maintained and new ones forged against this backdrop of
change and uncertainty? The visit will describe the many ideas that Kensington
Regeneration and local communities have tried – and what works.
Great emphasis has been placed on building information and understanding
about who people are, how they are different and why they find themselves
living alongside each other in Kensington – and this starts in school. The
visit will look at how the team has sought to influence teachers and school
curricula. It will also look at work in the wider neighbourhood through sport,
festival, street parties and mentoring.”
http://www.kensingtonregeneration.com
Islam in Liverpool
Hosted by Muslim Enterprise Development Service
As
a port, Liverpool is the home of one of Britain’s oldest and most diverse
Muslim communities. This visit will consider past and present, beginning with
the UK’s first mosque, founded by local convert Sheik Abdullah Quilliam in 1889
http://www.abdullahquilliamsociety.org.uk,
and concluding with a discussion with young Liverpudlian Muslims about their
life in the city. We will visit the Liverpool Supplementary School Youth Forum
to hear about issues raised in their recent filmed study of attitudes to Muslim
religion and culture in the city. What conclusions have the young people drawn
about the prospects for Liverpool as an
intercultural city?
http://www.muslimenterprise.co.uk
Next steps towards the Intercultural City
Re-convene at a central venue (FACT, the Foundation for Art & Creative Technology) for feedback, closing discussion and proposals for future action.
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