Designing Cultural Regions:
Experiences from Northern Italy and Lessons for Canada

Friday, October 22, 2010 Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings, Room 2270
4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Metropolitan Vancouver benefits from its proximity to rural, island and small agricultural communities with their own unique and thriving creative economies, but the flow of such benefits is often invisible. How can the slow food movement, organic agriculture, heritage, arts and design sectors join up in articulating a distinctive regional cultural development strategy? Join the Centre for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities for a salon on designing rural cultural regions: experiences from Northern Italy and Lessons for Canada. The salon features a presentation by Isabella Bergamini, an architect, researcher with D.O.M.In.U.S, a long term research and development project on the Cultural District in the Oltrepò Mantovano Region, and doctoral student of Professor Daniele Fanzini of the Mantua campus of the Polytecnic of Milan. D.O.M.In.U.S. is supported by the Cariplo Foundation, thirteen municipalities, and a broad coalition of industrial, agritourism, arts and chambers of commerce. Ms. Bergamini has been a researcher in residence for four months at the CPCC and her research into Duncan and Salt Spring Island enables her to draw lessons for alternative strategies for cultural development, very different from typical Anglo-American ways of thinking about the creative economy.

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We regularly invite you to share ideas with others with similar interests who come from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds. This informative networking series is for faculty and students from SFU, UBC and other academic institutions, as well as members of the general public, who are interested in culture and the city issues like sustainability, infrastructure, community, creativity and work.

Sex, Money, Media: An international symposium on women in media

October 14–16, 2010 Vancouver, BC
Presented by Women in View

Women in View 2010 will be a ground‐breaking three‐day gathering of media artists, policy‐makers, producers and researchers sharing their creative visions, expertise and research; and celebrating the achievements of women in media. Visit www.womeninview.ca for more details.