Cultural Diversity and the City

Syllabus

• Week 1

  Cultural Diversity, Heritage and the City

  • Introducing the course

    Welcome to our course on cultural diversity and the city. Meet your educators and get an overview of the topics that will be covered during these three weeks.

  • Contested heritage in Cities

    What is contested heritage? How does it play out in contemporary cities, and what can be done about it?

  • Dealing with complex diversity heritage

    Explore two cases of complex diversity heritage: Mumbai and Johanneburg

  • Turning diversity into an asset

    See how cities have used their cultural diversity to generate economic and social impacts

  • Week 1 wrap up

    Let us sum up what we learned in this first week about cultural diversity and heritage in cities

• Week 2

  Heritage Labelling, Networks, and the City

  • Welcome to Week 2

    Let us introduce two tools that cities use to foster cultural diversity through heritage: labels and networks.

  • Heritage labels

    How can labels promote cities’ cultural diversity? Let us look at labels such as World Heritage or World Book Capitals.

  • City networks

    Explore how cities build networks to better promote cultural diversity and develop transnational heritage projects

  • Week 2 wrap up

    What have we learned on labels and city networks? How do they contribute to building more inclusive cities, widen our perspective on heritage, and create connections across diverse cultures?

• Week 3

  The Rise of New Cultural Hubs

  • Introducing week 3

    This week will deal with the role of globalizing cities as agents of diversity in the global cultural landscape

  • Cultural diversity in global urban landscapes

    Let's look at how the urban landscape reflects cities’ identity. We will reflect on processes that contribute to transforming urban spaces, from public policies to markets dynamics and the mobility of people.

  • Museums in the globalizing city

    How does globalization affect museums? How do globalizing cities use museums in their strategies? Let us reflect on these questions based on various case studies.

  • New voices in the global movie industry

    The movie industry is a sector of mass culture in which a few players dominate. This activity looks at how cities can nurture cinematographic production and contribute to cultural diversification.

  • Wrap up of the course

    We have the reached the end of our course. Let's review the main issues we have covered and the discussions we have had over the last three weeks.

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