“No matter how big or small the city, they function best when they’re thinking about their origins as human settlement, their imaginaries constructed by the people who live in them,” believes Ali FitzGibbon, Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts, English & Languages at Queen’s University. FitzGibbon delivered a thought-provoking keynote speech at this year’s Eurocities Culture Forum in Belfast, exploring the forum’s theme: “Culture as the connector.”
Drawing from Belfast’s rich cultural history, personal memories and reflections on the future of cities, FitzGibbon asked cities: “If what we want is to be connected, what does success look like? I’m trying to introduce some ideas about other ways of thinking about it.” She added that her “general prompt for action is about considering methods of care and sharing in ways that we think about connectedness. So how could you embed that? What would that look like?”
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Article originally appeared on the Euro Cities website.