Know-How-Transfer

Once a year, the Foundation organises a symposium focusing on topical issues relating to the cities. Future issues, approaches to solving current problems, and the result of the surveys conducted by the Foundation are discussed by representatives from the worlds of culture, politics, business and society. These fruitful discussions are made available to a wide specialist readership through the “Lebendige Stadt” journal.

COLORFUL CITY

children - media - cultural diversity

Congress 2009

In the nonprofit "Lebendige Stadt" Foundation, state minister presidents, government ministers, lord mayors, CEOs, scientists and leading cultural figures work together to maintain and promote the vibrancy of European cities. As part of this endeavor, the Foundation supports "best practice" models, presents an annual Foundation Award and organizes forums for the exchange of ideas and experience between the involved parties. The well-known projects of the Foundation include the illumination of the Rhine bank in Cologne, the revitalization of Hamburg's "Jungfernstieg" boulevard and the redevelopment of the church courtyard of the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig, where the peaceful revolution of the former GDR began.

 

The conference will be staged in cooperation with the German Association of Towns and Municipalities.

 

MITTWOCH, 9. SEPTEMBER
PROGRAM ON THE EVE OF THE CONFERENCE

06:00 pm
Presentation of the Foundation Award

“Paths In The City: Child-friendly Mobility Concepts”

PROF. DR. ENGELBERT LÜTKE DALDRUP

State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development

together with

ALEXANDER MÖLLER

CEO of Deutsche Bahn Stadtverkehr

08:00 pm
The Cologne Cathedral Play

Premiere – play by

MICHAEL BATZ

Director: Robin Brosch Lighting: Created by Michael Batz with the support of Philips Lighting GmbH Production: "Lebendige Stadt" Foundation With the support of the City of Cologne, the Cathedral Chapter and the Master Builder of the High Cathedral. The series of outstanding and unusual performances during the Foundation conference continues with a play that not only takes place in front of Cologne Cathedral but also incorporates the impressive building in the plot. The richness of the external facade of the cathedral with its many shapes and figures is the starting point for a story about the city and time, action and decision, values and love. In a turbulent but thoughtful comedy, gargoyles and figures above the southern entrance are "brought down to earth". They can avoid the fate of being turned back into stone on one condition: that, within a short space of time, they find a person who loves them. In an exciting light setting, they climb down onto the stage and interact with a world they normally only see from their perch up high and in which they have never learned to move about in. Then the race against time begins. "The Cologne Cathedral Play" was written specifically to mark the Foundation conference. This is the first time the cathedral has been made available for a project of this kind.


AFTER -SHOW GET-TOGETHER

DONNERSTAG 10. SEPTEMBER 2009
CHILDREN

8.30 am
GET TOGETHER

9.00 am
MODERATION

DR. ANDREAS MATTNER

Chairman of the Executive Board, "Lebendige Stadt" Foundation

9.10 am
BEGRÜSSUNG

LUTZ LIENENKÄMPER

Minister of Construction and Transport, North Rhine-Westphalia

9.25 am
EINLEITUNG

ALEXANDER OTTO

Chairman of the Board of Trustees, "Lebendige Stadt" Foundation

9.40 am
THEMENMODERATION

9.50 am
KICK-OFF SPEECH

HILDEGARD MÜLLER

former Minister of State of the Federal Chancellor, Chairwoman of the Central Management Board of the German Energy and Water Association (BDEW)

10.10 am
"Child-Friendly City – What Can Cities Learn?"

DR. WOLFGANG SCHUSTER

Lord Mayor of Stuttgart, member of the Foundation Board “Lebendige Stadt"

10.30 am
Coffee break and networking

11.00 am
„The Fun of Learning: Classroom of the Future"

ANDREAS WENTE

CEO Philips Deutschland GmbH, Director of the Lighting DACH division

MARGIT VOLLMERT

Director, Caparol ColorDesignStudio

ANDREAS WIEDEMANN

Principal, “In der Alten Forst” school

11.30 am
"The Child-Friendly Railway Station"

DR. ANDRÉ ZEUG

CEO of DB Station & Service AG

11.50 am
MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

12.00 am
PANEL DISCUSSION: "Children in the City"

DR. DANIEL ARNOLD

CEO of Deutsche Reihenhaus

SEBASTIAN BOCK

pupil, winner of “Youth Debates”, NRW

DRS. H.M.F. BRULS

Mayor of Venlo, Netherlands

DR. FRANK HANSER

Managing Director, DSK Deutsche Stadt- und Grundstücksentwicklungsgesellschaft

BURKHARD JUNG

Lord Mayor of Leipzig, member of the Foundation Board “Lebendige Stadt"

NINA-CARLOIN KRUMNAU

pupil, runner-up in “Youth Debates”, NRW

HERBERT MAI

Board member of Fraport, Executive Director Labor Relations, Ambassador of the corporate "Success Factor Family" program

Chair

DR. WOLFGANG SCHUSTER

Lord Mayor of Stuttgart, member of the Foundation Board “Lebendige Stadt”

01.00 pm
Midday break

DONNERSTAG 10. SEPTEMBER 2009
MEDIA

02.10 pm
Topic moderation

02.20 pm
KICK-OFF SPEECH: Networked Cities – Between E-Government and Digital Fragmentation”

PROF. DR. DR. KARLHEINZ BRANDENBURG

Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology

02.40 pm
"Large-Format Advertising in the City – Trends and Options"

DR. FRANZISKA LEHMANN

Proloco


The Example of Munich

DR. ELISABETH MERK

Urban Planning Officer, Munich

03.00 pm
“Digital Signage - ow Does It Change the Cityscape?“

MORTEN CARLSSON

CEO of PROCON MultiMedia

03.20 pm
Coffee break and networking

03.50 pm
PANEL DISCUSSION: "Media in the City – Mission, Power, Responsibility"

DR. ROLAND GERSCHERMANN

Managing Director, FAZ newspaper, member of the Foundation Board “Lebendige Stadt

DR. EVA LOHSE

Lord Mayor of Ludwigshafen

KONSTANTIN NEVEN DUMONT

member of the Management Board of the M. DuMont Schauberg Group

WOLFGANG SCHMITZ

Director of WDR Radio

Leitung

MAIK KLOKOW

CEO and Producer of the Klokow Group

DANIEL WALL

Vorstandsvorsitzender der Wall AG

ROSWITHA WENZL

Children’s Representative of Stuttgart

04.50 pm
Topical discourse – financial crisis

"Financial crisis – what happens now, and how can the cities respond?"

FREITAG 11. SEPTEMBER 2009
CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE CITY


Venue: WDR television studios, Cologne-Bocklemünd

09.00 am
GET TOGETHER

09.30 am
Topic moderation

09.40 am
KICK-OFF SPEECH: “Cultural Identity – Challenge for the Cities"

PROF. DR. NORBERT LAMMERT MDB

President of the German Bundestag

10.10 am
"Turning Diversity into an Opportunity"

ALAN RUDGE

Councillor, Cabinet Member for Equalities and Human Resources, City of Birmingham, England

10.30 am
"Guest Workers, Expatriates, International High Potentials: What Can Cities Learn from Multicultural Companies?"Städte von multikulturellen Unternehmen lernen?“

DR. UWE FRANKE

CEO of Deutsche BP and initiator of the "Charter of Diversity of German Companies

10.50 am
Presentation by cultural associations

11.00 am
Coffee break and networking

11.30 am
"When Does Diversity Become a Risk? And How Can We Control this Risk?"

HEINZ BUSCHKOWSKY

District Mayor of Berlin-Neukölln

Panel discussion Cultural diversity in the city

"What Is Integration? – Fear of Loss of Identity versus Fear of 'Over-Foreignization'"

HATICE AKYÜN

journalist and publicist

WEIHBISCHOF DR. HEINER KOCH

Archbishopric of Cologne

BERND STREITBERGER

Alderman, City of Cologne

Chair

FERDOS FORUDASTAN

Author, publicist, freelance journalist and lecturer at various institutes including the Institute of Journalism at Dortmund University

12.50 pm
“What Would Dortmund Be Without Borussia? Old and New Sporting Cultures and Civic Identity”

DR. MICHAEL VESPER

Executive Director, German Olympic Sports Federation

01.10 pm
"Working-Class Culture, Culture of Remembrance, High Culture: What Moved the 2008 Capital of Culture – and What Remains?"

MIKE STOREY

Lord Mayor of Liverpool

01.30 pm
"Cultural Diversity in Germany – between Integration and Parallel Societies"

PETER ALTMAIER MDB

Parliamentary Secretary of State at the Federal Ministry of the Interior

01.50 pm
FINGERFOOD