2nd World Culture Forum

This is where the WORLD CULTURE FORUM would like to contribute. Based on an integral cultural understanding, its initiators aim to help the general public document and establish the existential significance of culture for a better global community. Its concern is to establish a platform for a systematically comprehensive dialogue to establish awareness and solve problems. Controversial theses are also of particular concern, as their development should disembogue prescient declarations, along with possible solutions.

Among the founders of the WORLD CULTURE FORUM, it is a foregone conclusion that, in the dynamic and complicated world in which we live today, we can only find temporary solutions to such problems, and that these solutions must be reworked and redefined over time.

The Congress intends to show the wide spectrum of cultures using the example of selected European cities as a kind of mirror, doing so from a historical perspective and with a view to the future. The Congress tries to learn from cultures outside of Europe that have influenced the continents development, but also from Europes influence on development in other parts of the world. Seen as especially valuable are the historical experiences of European state structures with a multicultural character before the era of the nation state and the more recent history of the European Union as a supranational governing system. Dynamism, balance, and reflection are key elements in a continual process of development of the city and culture.

1. The city mirrors culture history and future

2. Over the last 10,000 years, the expansion of humanity occurred as a result of the vitality of cities.

3. Is dynamism a constituent element of European cultures and the European city?

4. Cities are catalysts for humanitys development.

5. Cities were always focal points of multicultural interaction.

6. Much can be learned about the future of humanity from the development of cities. Europes experiences provide special perspectives in this regard.

7. The future of humanity will depend on whether it succeeds in performing the cultural task of restoring equilibrium time and again.

More information and registration: www.wcf-dresden.com