Intergovernamental Conference on Institutional, Administrative and Financial Aspects of Cultural Polcies, 1970
Intergovernamental Conference on Institutional, Administrative and Financial Aspects of Cultural Polcies, 1970
Summary
The Intergovernmental Conference on the Administrative and Financial Aspects of Cultural Policies organized in Venice in 1970 marked the first of a series of international conferences which began the still evolving process of bringing culture to the heart of the policy-making agenda.
It was in Venice in fact that Ren� Maheu, then Director-General of UNESCO, said this to the world:
''Man is the means and the end of development; he is not the one-dimensional abstraction of homo economicus, but a living reality, a human person, in the infinite variety of his needs, his potentialities and his aspirations... In the concept of development the centre of gravity has thus shifted from the economic to the social, and we have reached a point where this shift begins to approach the cultural.''
The Venice conference affirmed clearly that ''the diversity of national cultures, their uniqueness and originality are an essential basis for human progress and the development of world culture'' and recommended a variety of measures both to governments and to UNESCO.
Summary
The Intergovernmental Conference on the Administrative and Financial Aspects of Cultural Policies organized in Venice in 1970 marked the first of a series of international conferences which began the still evolving process of bringing culture to the heart of the policy-making agenda.
It was in Venice in fact that Ren� Maheu, then Director-General of UNESCO, said this to the world:
''Man is the means and the end of development; he is not the one-dimensional abstraction of homo economicus, but a living reality, a human person, in the infinite variety of his needs, his potentialities and his aspirations... In the concept of development the centre of gravity has thus shifted from the economic to the social, and we have reached a point where this shift begins to approach the cultural.''
The Venice conference affirmed clearly that ''the diversity of national cultures, their uniqueness and originality are an essential basis for human progress and the development of world culture'' and recommended a variety of measures both to governments and to UNESCO.
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Intergovernamental Conference on Institutional, Administrative and Financial Aspects of Cultural Polcies, 1970
September 2010
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