Culture 21 PLUS (2025)

Culture 21 PLUS. A new toolkit for Cultural Rights in Cities and Communities

UCLG has begun to draft a new toolkit to promote and implement Cultural Rights in Cities and Communities, to be adopted in 2025. It considers:

• The necessity of unfolding with care-based and rights-based concrete actions the UCLG Pact for the Future of Humanity: for the People, for the Planet, for the Government, adopted at the UCLG World Congress in Daejeon, in October 2022
• The Culture 21: Actions, adopted by UCLG in 2015
• The Rome Charter
• The concept of circular culture
   

The initial proposal of Culture 21 PLUS outlines 6 blocks, with 30 key areas and 200 actions. It will be useful (1) to carry out a self-assessment of the state of play of the cultural policies of a territory; and (2) to design local cultural strategies based on cultural rights and sustainability.
 

We are in a “testing” phase! We already have an initial proposal, which is undergoing a process of experimentation, debate and shared cocreation with UCLG members, until its adoption in 2025.

• Test in the city of Jinju (Republic of Korea), July 2023
• Test in Mexico City (Mexico), September 2023
• Test in Lisbon (Portugal), November 2023
• Workshops at the UCLG Culture Summit in Dublin (28 November – 1 December 2023).
   

How can your city be involved? We are inviting cities and local or regional governments interested in “testing” Culture 21 PLUS to write us at culture@uclg.org.