THE 2020 ROME CHARTER is led by Roma Capitale, Azienda Speciale Palaexpo and the UCLG Committee on Culture. It aims at promoting the right to participate in cultural life as a condition for a better society. The initiative began in 2019 and it has involved more than 45 cities and 95 advisors.
We think it is now important and urgent to create together a new future in the places that represent today a challenge as well as an opportunity: our cities and communities.
The outcome of this initiative is the 2020 Charter of Rome: read it here
In this timeline you can read the steps that led to its creation.
November 2020
The UCLG World Council (November 2020) ended with the announcement of the Pact for the Future (with three axis: People, Planet and Government) that UCLG will shape in 2021-2022 and where the cultural component is expected to have a strong place. You can see the conclusions of the World Council and more details on the Pact for the Future here.
October 1-2-3
Three days of debates, international interventions and dialogues dedicated to discuss the implications of the 2020 Charter of Rome in the development of sustainable cities and communities through participation in cultural life.Eleven online sessions, all translated into English and Italian, and some in Spanish and French.
September 2020
More public and internal meetings will be held to develop the second chapter of the Charter
July 10 2020
The Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments has convened a Local and Regional Governments’ Day. In this context the Charter has been presented and contextualised in a broader discourse on cultural rights in the city in times of crisis by Vice Mayor Luca Bergamo and UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights, Karima Bennoune
June: July 2020
The Charter starts its dialogue with more circles, being invited to present and discuss content in meetings organised by new international cities, cultural institutions and civil society networks
May 29 2020
First public appointment of the Charter, during the Global Executive Bureau of the UCLG with more than 100 Mayors from all over the world.
May 2020
The first draft of the Charter is released to be globally and locally discussed in its implications.
April 2020
The Charter is discussed in a series of global public meetings online held by UCLG, Metropolis, UN Habitat, SDG Festival. The Charter is also considered an elaboration of the UCLG Presidency Decalogue for the COVID-19 aftermath, launched on 22 April 2020, which identifies culture as one of the key priorities to guide the advocacy of UCLG in the coming years, as an “antidote for the secondary effects” of the COVID-19 crisis.
March 2020
Due to COVID-19, cities start connecting more to exchange on crises, meetings are held online, the Charter is shaped thanks to collective and bilateral conversations with cities and experts from all continents.
December 2019
Roma Capitale and UCLG – Culture Committee kick off the process with the idea of starting with a combination of local/international gatherings in to be held in Rome.
THE 2020 ROME CHARTER
is developed by Roma Capitale, Azienda Speciale Palaexpo and UCLG – Culture Committee.
Drafting Committee: Luca Bergamo, Eleonora Guadagno, Marta Llobet, François Matarasso, Jordi Pascual, Carla Schiavone, Vincenzo Vastola, Sarah Vieux.
With the cities, local governments and their associations: Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Barcelona, Bilbao, Bogotá, Izmir, Malmö, Washington D.C., Xi’an, Baie Mahault, the Diputació of Barcelona, Bishkek, Comrat, Concepción, Córdoba, Cuenca, Dublin, Geneva, Gwangju, Jeju, Kazan, Konya, Krasnoyarsk, La Paz, Leeds, Mar del Plata, Makati, Maputo, Medellin, Montevideo, Montréal, Nizhny Novgorod, Osh, Puebla, the Republic of Sakha, San José de Costa Rica, Santa Fe, Sao Paulo, Swansea, the Cabildo of Tenerife, Vancouver, Vologda and Yekaterinburg.
With the participation of: African Capital of Culture initiative, AICCRE, Americans for the Arts, Asia-Europe Foundation, ASviS, CEMR-CCRE, Creative City South, Culture Action Europe, FLACMA, GAOK – Governors Association of Korea, INTACH – Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, Kultura Nova, Mercociudades, Metropolis, National Theatre of Accra, Nhimbe Global Affairs Observatory, SALGA – South African Local Government Association, SDG Global Festival of Action, Sibikwa Arts Centre, UCLG Africa, UCLG-ASPAC, UCLG-Euroasia, UCLG-MEWA, UNESCO, VNG, Wits Cultural Policy and Management School.
A special gratitude for the conversations and exchanges held with: Korkor Amarteifio, Sergey Anastasov, Tere Badia, Jordi Baltà Portoles, Mónica Barrios, Ivana Baukart, Urmat Belekbaev, Karima Bennoune, Johanne Bouchard, María José Callejas, Ed Carroll, Mauricio Castro, Pascale Charlebois, Stefanie Chetty, Eric Corijn, Catherine Cullen, Francisco d’Almeida, Cristina da Milano, Jasmina Dizdarevic Cordero, Yvonne M. Donders, Onur Eryüce, Fernando Ferroni, Ruslan Galiakhmetov, Enrico Giovannini, Beatriz Garcia, Mercedes Giovinazzo, Enrique Glockner, Daniel Granados, Antoine Guibert, Nora Halpern, Eriel Huang, Lucina Jiménez, Avril Joffe, Yarri Kamara, Kang Jeong-Ah, Sakina Khan, Gavril Kirillin, Phylis Klotz, Mthobeli Kolisa, Cynthia Khumalo, Tamara Landívar, Tita Larasati, Annabell Lebethe, Luana Lupi, Andrea Malquin, Robert Manchin, Valeria Marcolin, Luz Medina, Vanessa Mengel, Magnus Metz, Nicolás Montero, Zayd Minty, Inti Muñoz, Jaume Muñoz, Randa Napky, Patricia Navarra, Josh Nyapimbi, Gerardo Daniel Padilla, Patricia Pieragostini, Edgar Pieterse, Navin Piplani, Shi Qi, Carla Rey, Mieke Renders, Paulo Ricci, Clarisa Ruiz Correal, Gennady Ryabov, David Sagita, Rassikh Sagitov, Rozalina Sagirova, Thierry Sanzhie Bokally, Salvatore Settis, Emilbek Shadykhanov, Anupama Sekhar, Dmitry Shesterikov, Gyonggu Shin, Lisa Sidambe, José Alfonso Suárez del Real y Aguilera, Khalid Tamer, Monserrath Tello, Elena Trofimova , Dea Vidović, Raymond Weber, Fiona Winders and Andrés Zaratti, Lea Iandiorio.
With the involvement and the frames of the UCLG World Secretariat and the UCLG sections, the overall coordination of the Department for Cultural Activities – Roma Capitale and the operational support of Azienda Speciale Palaexpo and Zètema Progetto Cultura.
To all of them, and to the many more to come, the deepest gratitude for their time, thoughts, experiments and care.
About the (Hybrid) Conference “The Rome Charter 2020” – October 1-2-3Production, video and streaming: Azienda Speciale PalaexpoProject communication and organizational secretariat: Zètema Progetto CulturaThe (Hybrid) Conference is a special project of “Festival dello Sviluppo Sostenibile 2020” promoted by ASviS