2. a new cultural renaissance for the age of migration?
Phil Wood

3. INCLUSIVENESS
RENAISSANCE
HOPE
CITIES
NARRATIVES
INTEGRATION
CULTURE

5. “Is it time for a new Renaissance for a new Europe?”

6. The Renaissance
What’s not to like?

7. The Dark Ages?

8. …so how did Western Civilisation survive the Dark Ages?

9. Córdoba
La Convivencia

10. Ibn Rushd
Maimonides

11. La Reconquista

14. Away from our Renaissance and their Integration to something really new
From the outset, it is important to appreciate that even in the western world, cities operate within widely varying national and local jurisdictions and values systems and that this influences the way they may respond over time to demographic change and cultural diversity, and the policy frameworks they construct.

15. DIGESTION
SUBVERSION

16. DIGESTION
INSTITUTIONS
ACTORS
DISCOURSES
SUBVERSION

17. Redefining cultural institutions

19. IDEA STORE Tower Hamlets, London

20. From Library to Idea Store London
The new generation of Ideas Stores are replacing libraries in the most diverse part of London. They provide a place where the whole community can come together
From Library to Idea Store
London
Tower Hamlets, London

21. Tower Hamlets, London

22. Tower Hamlets, London

23. Porte de Flandre, Molenbeek, Brussels
September 2010
Artist: Emilio López-Menchero

26. "It’s the role of the artist to work with borders
"It’s the role of the artist to work with borders. The artist is somewhere between a clown and a criminal, beyond the existing boundaries."

27. Migrantas, Germany

36. Intercultural Cities Council of Europe
Phil Wood