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Sala Cabrujas de Cultura Chacao was the epicenter of the first International Conference on Management and Cultural Policies for Development Cooperation, held from July 26 to 28, 2018 in Caracas, as part of the program. United Nations Agenda 2030
During the event, some organizers and participants commented El Nacional Web their expectations regarding the outcome of the event and their views on the central theme: cultural management as a motor
Rosa Virginia Urdaneta, general director of the Chacao Cultural Foundation, said that the entire training area is important for the institution, because the culture must be encouraged in the citizen. He added that they decided to offer a mixed vision of education, heritage and sustainability in point 4 of the 2030 Agenda.
– Qu & What led to the organization of these days?
– To Culture Chacao is important throughout the training area. Not only can we talk about objectives that have to do with activities such as Chacao Lector, we also have to think about training plans, promote citizen culture. So we embarked on this beautiful event of the Conference with a group of institutions and professionals to specify and deliver a vision of Goal 4, which relates to education, heritage and of course sustainability, which is the fundamental line of work for the seventeen goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, approved in September 2015.
– The Fundación Cultura Chacao has worked with other organizations for the scope of these cultural training plans?
– Yes, of course. We are an institution that has been managing relationships with other private and public institutions for over 25 years. We have worked tirelessly with innumerable embassies and diplomatic organizations that support us, like Unesco, hotels and private companies like El Nacional, which has always been in solidarity with us and our events; the list is infinite. For example, in no particular order, the Embassy of Spain, Libros El Nacional, the Bigott Foundation, the Urban Photography Archives, Te Paseo, the European Union, the Hotel Pestana Caracas, accompanied us to organize this Conference; a series of public and private institutions that have been encouraged and engaged in our projects, which ultimately amounts to bet on the country.
For his part, José Luis Figueroa, organizer of the First International Conference on Cultural Management and Policies, explained that from the United Nations, the goals of sustainable development have been established because the culture has ceased to be an accessory and has become a main strategy of local and territorial development.
"Like the 2030 Agenda, which is expected More human, I believe that every citizen, every organization and every professional in the world should go in the same direction," said Figueroa.
He added that the idea of Conference I was that cultural and heritage managers, in addition to culture-related professions, they will approach the objectives of Sustainable Development and at the event they will reflect how they can adapt, align with the objectives, and establish appropriate strategies for its implementation
– What were the criteria for selecting speakers?
– We are always looking for an international dimension in continuing education programs, because the experiences of professionals from one continent or another can harmonize, inspire and facilitate joint projects and in this case, as we have an interuniversity link through the Polytechnic University of Madrid, with the Cultural Management course that I have offered this year at the School of Architecture establish of. Other bridges connecting with this university and for this reason, I chose the professor and professor emeritus Joaquín Ibáñez, who has a long career in the development of projects related to cultural heritage, in addition, this university has a very important Cooperation project C & # 39; s is one of the reasons why I decided that I was one of the speakers. In the case of Venezuela, I chose Víctor Guédez, a consultant in business ethics with extensive experience in the area of corporate social responsibility, and with important considerations on what culture should be, as a basis for Sustainable development.
– How important are you to heritage for the training of cultural managers?
– In addition to the symbolic value of heritage, there is a theme of identity. Heritage engenders the construction of identity and citizenship and other issues, such as cultural tourism and creative industries, poses innovative scenarios, facilitates employment and improves cities. Today, heritage is a very important and powerful element of local development, generating wealth and well-being. We must make an effort to ensure that heritage is recognized, interpreted, valued and accessible to all citizens; all cultural management and its heritage projects must necessarily have the community as protagonists, for its reassessment and respect for and for future generations.
Víctor Guédez, specialist in organizational cultures and corporate social responsibility, one of the event's speakers, explained that his lecture was born from a conceptual premise and from 39, a practice.
– My lecture is part of a conceptual premise and a practical premise. The conceptual is that between cultural management and sustainable development there are relationships because one has an impact on the other; redimensions because one is pushed back to the other and consubstances because one is integrated with the other. This means that sustainable development can not be seen solely in terms of economic growth, social equity and environmental preservation without adding a fourth dimension, which is the dimension of culture, because it allows for redirect efforts and identify with others. values that compromise the smooth realization of these three aspects. The practical premise is the four Rs needed for the development of the country. Reconciliation, because we have to live together or we are confronted with a collapse against reality and therefore nothing can be done. Reinstitutionalization, because without institutions, the objectives are not legitimized or realized. Economic recovery because we are all victims of what it means not to do it. Finally, Reorientation of culture, to make it a disposition and a vocation to achieve the three R.
– According to your presentation, what do you think may be the final reflection that is reached with this day?
– This awareness of sustainable development is very important. As long as it is accepted that economic, social and environmental factors must be harmonized, excesses and caricatures in society will be avoided. When a society favors only the economy, it ends up in a wild capitalism. When the social is privileged and the rest is forgotten, it results in a retrograde socialism. And when you're just emphasizing the environment, it's a primitive environmentalism. Then either you fall into a caricature or the ability to harmonize these three things, and this event seeks to harmonize these three things through culture, which is the fourth dimension that acts simultaneously on them.
Joaquín Ibáñez, professor emeritus of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, emphasized the importance of architecture in sustainable development and how to create a comprehensive education in Venezuela.
– What do you think about the importance of architecture in sustainable development, paired with culture?
-The culture in the background is an activator of society, although the culture itself is nothing and everything. But on the whole, culture is enriched by education, which is more important than culture. It is the instrument that converts us into biological beings for which they are rational and social. Most of the problems we face in all countries are the product of the education deficit, not the culture. Then architecture, the teacher not as a rigid and limited discipline, but as a tool for knowledge and restoration of public spaces, intimately associated with memory and identity, we can build universities with an awareness of sustainable development through these programs. architectural culture, because cultural and social heritage is an element of human and economic development. You must educate not only in schools like architecture, you must educate in every sector of every country in the world to be global citizens.
– How do you think this global education can be established in Venezuela?
– The twentieth century has spawned many barbarities in the world and we must pass them, like a bad disease. One of the things that came out of these barbarities was this perverted document which is the passport. Borders must be eliminated, creating a homogenous Ibero-American culture, since the 21st century identity is mixed and multiple. We must become citizens of the world, not just closed societies. We have an Ibero-American cultural heritage and we must all assume it and know it and save it.
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