At the end of 2020, City Council approved a new Cultural Development Plan (CDP) for the state capital Dresden. The result is a planning document of over a hundred pages, describing visions, goals, and specific projects for Dresden’s culture over a period of approximately ten years. The city’s memory is formed by both material and ideal cultural assets. The discursive examination of this memory is a focal point for Dresden’s urban society. Monument protection and conservation play an important role in preserving built heritage and making it usable for future generations.
In essence, the topics addressed in the context of the Cultural Development Plan are also integral components and points of interaction with other local action plans and concepts within the city. Key themes include social cohesion, gender and age equity, diversity, intercultural understanding and inclusion, cultural education, participation for all, and sustainability.
The Cultural Development Plan of Dresden (2020) identifies climate protection and sustainability as cross-cutting tasks, considering the development of a cross-sectoral framework for action planning as a crucial next step for the local cultural sector. A shared vision is articulated by the Dresden cultural administration and its affiliated cultural institutions, aiming to make sustainability a central theme in cultural development planning.
