At the Mercadant Theatere of Naples, the first citizen, Gaetano Manfredi, presented to the city, the guidelines of the Culture Plan 2022-2026. All citizens can contribute to the realization of this project, simply by sending their proposals until April 15th by filling out a form on the website of the Municipality of Naples.
The steps that will lead to the complete realization of the plan are four and two of these have already begun:
- The first was the campaign by Gaetano Manfredi during which there were various moments of discussion and listening with different subjects from the world of culture;
- the second was the definition of Address lines the cultural policy of Naples and the metropolitan city;
- the third stage will be between March 15th and April 15th with the collection of proposals from the world of culture to then define the operational actions to be developed;
- the fourth stage will end by the summer and will see the presentation of the 2022 - 2026 Culture Plan to the city.
The nine strategic actions of the Culture Plan
According to this complex program, the aim is above all to erase the image of a Naples anchored to its past, immobile and faithful to “an oleographic idea of itself”. It is necessary to ensure that cultural policies follow the requests for transformation that have been taking place in Naples for a long time, remembering that we live in a complex city, plural, full of voices.
Forms of innovative collaboration with the cultural institutions of the city, with associations and the world of the third sector.
Furthermore, it is essential to separate cultural policy from a purely promotional perspective and insert it in a series of initiatives to build spaces for cultural exchange, training, study, entertainment, games, dialogue.
The nine priorities and strategic actions to be followed are:
- the wide gaze to the Metropolitan City
- the international projection
- the creation / re-functionalization of spaces
- the vocation of cultural sites
- dialogue with digital
- the focus on scientific culture
- innovative collaboration
- the shared process of creation
- the skills chain
As stated by the mayor, it will be launched by the Municipal Administration of Naples in the summer of 2022 following an articulated path. There are three actions that are already in the pipeline, namely:
- Development of a facility to care for, protect and enhance cultural sites
- Redevelopment of municipal libraries
- Strengthening the music industry to strengthen the role of Naples as the city of music
But let's see in detail the three proposals already in the pipeline.
The role of "Naples city of music"
The goal is to make a Music office, to strengthen the music industry through a series of actions aimed at fostering dialogue between institutions and trade associations, as well as establishing a connection between the various professionals who are part of the local, national and international music department.
Services to enhance the cultural sites of Naples
One of the objectives of this Culture Plan is to determine a professional entity that is able to manage, protect and enhance the various cultural sites of the Municipality of Naples and its artistic heritage.
This project includes the Maschio Angioino, Castel dell'Ovo, Il Pan, the Complex of San Domenico Maggiore and many others.
It is necessary redefinition the functions of use and identification of the users of certain cultural sites in order to manage them more optimally. This is even more important for those sites than they don't have a well-defined strategy such as the Maschio Angioino, the PAN, the Castel dell'Ovo, San Domenico
Maggiore or the Mostra d'Oltremare, to give some examples.
The requalification of the Municipal Libraries
Another important action will concern the requalification of the Municipal Libraries to transform them into cultural garrisons in the area. The less frequented spaces will thus be transformed into welcoming and multipurpose structures suitable for a large audience: university students, school-age children, retirees, unemployed people, immigrants.
The Library will therefore be seen as a place of cultural diffusion thanks to the presence of different areas for study, reading, training, connection, play and rest.
Thus, it will be essential to strengthen the network of neighborhood libraries, which will become lively places rich in social value, first points of contact, fundamental places for the diffusion and practice of culture and creative arts.
Dialogue with digital
All these objectives cannot fail to deal with digital culture and the digitization, fundamental in the program of actions.
Digitization must cross culture and are foreseen four main directions:
- fruition to make cultural programs accessible with interconnected and user friendly information systems;
- Research in the textual, artistic and visual fields for new production and experimentation spaces in museum, exhibition and archival-library infrastructures;
- production with new laboratory environments, real places of experimentation of digital art;
- exposure with new exhibition spaces and new creative tools for digital literacy.
The presentation video of the Municipality of Naples
Here is the video in which the mayor of Naples Gaetano Manfredi presents this important Culture Plan for our city.
