Culture 21 Plus
A renewed commitment to making culture central in sustainable cities and communities.
Culture 21 Plus is our framework document, guiding cities and territories to connect culture with sustainability, human rights and local development.
The Culture 21 Plus Frame, in detail
Culture 21 Plus is structured around 6 fields and 30 thematic areas, covering how culture connects with rights, communities, prosperity, territories, nature and governance.
It offers cities and local governments worldwide a shared framework, useful to:
- conduct self- assessment processes of the current state of local cultural policies;
- design local cultural strategies based on cultural rights and sustainability.
Explore the full framework document.
Culture 21 Plus Initial Roadmap
Culture 21 Plus Initial Roadmap is a new, free of charge, global digital tool that turns your city's cultural priorities into a concrete action plan — in just a minute!
How it works:
- Choose your cultural priorities.
- Share the cultural vision of your city for 2050 in one sentence.
- An algorithm built on the Culture 21 Plus framework will analyse your input and instantly generate your tailored initial roadmap.
What you get — for free:
- In just a minute, you will receive a 3-page PDF with your Culture 21 Plus Roadmap.
- 6 Priority Actions tailored to your city.
- 3 Strategic Pathways to work on in the short term.
- Options to further engage with the Culture Committee of UCLG and our programmes.
Start your journey now!
Culture 21 Plus Modules
Culture 21 Plus will be implemented through a set of modules, enabling participatory self-assessment, learning, and policy design and implementation.
Some of the modules foreseen at this stage are tailored to specific local contexts, meant to address specific policy challenges or conceived in collaboration with cities, regions and key partners of UCLG.
Modules are drawn from the core Culture 21 Plus framework and can be used independently. Some of the modules will be:
- The Essentials
- Extended
- Culture and Gender Equality (coming soon)
- Culture and Climate Change (coming soon)
- Culture and Health and Wellbeing (coming soon)
- Cultural Heritage (coming soon)
- Culture, Freedoms and Technology (coming soon)
- Rome Charter (coming soon)
- Culture in Metropolitan Areas (coming soon)
This is an open, evolving list. We want to co-create it with you. We invite cities and partners to contact us to explore a tailored module for your specific needs.
