The Forum “City and Art” which will take place in Istanbul between 6th-8th March 2009 in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University will include conferences, discussions, presentations, workshops, as well as artistic and cultural activities, excursions and receptions.
The Forum aims at bringing together European art and design academia with cities’ cultural actors in order to question the present and future role of the art universities in relation with the cities in which they are located and in relation with their citizens. In order to draw an overall picture of the present situation and the tendencies which will influence the future, European cultural, educational and media policies will initially be revisited and their influences on the metropolitan culture and the position of the arts in the metropolitan society will be discussed…
for more information: www.cityandart.org
