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It’s great news that creativity will be in the limelight in 2010 as the UN celebrates creative economies at the Shanghai World Expo. According to a press release, UN-Habitat is the lead UN agency for the coordination of the UN Pavilion and the Special Unit is one of the leading UN bodies promoting creative economy as a tool for development.
The exhibition, which includes Creative Corridors, a UN Creative Night, and a Creative Economy Week, “will depict how the creative economy is an engine for better livable cities with better lifestyles for all in alignment with the Shanghai World Expo 2010 theme: Better City, Better Life. Whenever these goals are achieved, people are at centre stage and involved in activities that use creativity as a main resource. The creative economy can be an important driver for economic growth and the agenda, represented at this exhibition, takes a broader view, asserting that long-term sustainable development can be achieved by effectively utilizing creative assets.”
Creative Corridors, a permanent multimedia exhibition, “will portray the contribution of creative activities to social, economic, environmental and cultural development” and feature activities from around the world. The planned Creative Economy Week will focus on workshops and meetings from 19 to 24 October 2010–culminating the last night with performances to celebrate UN Creative Night.
For those who won’t be able to travel to Shanghai, what can we do to keep celebrating the contributions of the creative classes?
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