Culture 21 Plus. A new frame for Cultural Rights at the local level
Welcome to Culture 21 Plus, the document that updates our work on cultural rights in sustainable cities.
Culture 21 Plus has six blocks and 30 areas, and it is useful to (1) conduct self- assessment processes of the current state of local cultural policies, and (2) design local cultural strategies based on cultural rights and sustainability.
Culture 21 Plus has a frame document and a set of modules, that are adapted to all contexts and needs of UCLG members. Some modules are tailored to specific local contexts (cities with great experience, metropolitan areas, intermediary cities, regions), while other modules address specific policy challenges (climate change, gender equality, or heritage).
A city or territory Culture 21 Plus can easily analyse what modules is the most suited for its context.
- Interact with this Ai-assisted chatbot .
- Write to the Secretariat of the Committee: culture@uclg.org.
How to begin? Have a look at the frame document, and let's talk about how Culture 21 Plus can be useful to you.
The cocreation process of Culture 21 Plus.
Culture 21 Plus 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
Culture 21 Plus is the result of a process of experimentation, debate and shared cocreation with UCLG members, that begin in 2023 and finished in April 2025. This process included a FAQS document, three webinars in English, Spanish and French, and several tests, in cities and territories, whose results are here:
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