Major topics of the workshop include: The city as a Living Museum, identifying cultural spaces, supporting grassroots living culture, revival and support of traditional skills, Sustainable development etc.

UNESCO: CULTURE

Venice is both a well-preserved monument and a living, breathing, sinking city, full of contemporary art, traditional crafts and high culture.

BBC: Living in: Venice

In many ways, geisha are living embodiments of Japanese traditional culture: each one is well versed in traditional dancing, singing, musical instruments and occasionally other arts such as tea ceremony and ikebana (flower arrangement).

BBC: Kyoto's living art of the geisha