urban therapist

Phil gives many presentations each year. This is a summary of some of the more recent ones: Forum of the Intercultural Cities - Local Communities and the policies of hospitality and integration in Europe and the Mediterranean, Bari, Italy, December 2009  The Creative Power of Cities in Combatting Social Exclusion. Keynote speech at conference The Impact of Cultural and Citizenship Education on Social Cohesion, Vilnius, Lithuania, December 2009. Download text and slides  
Multicultural Symbiosis, Japan Foundation, Tokyo, November 2009  
Connecting the Creative City and the Intercultural City, European Commission, Brussels, November 2009   
Diversity Spicing up Creativity? European Commission, Brussels, October 2009. Report  
Why Mixing Cultures Could Lead to Innovation. Creativity and Innovation Conference, Maastricht, Netherlands, October 2009. Download slides 
Creative Clusters Summer School, Huddersfield, July 2009 Download slides  
International Cities, Towns and Communities Conference, Keynote Sydney, 2008  
Interaccio, Barcelona, 2008  The Inclusive City, Gothenburg, 2007  
Creative Industries support, Tallinn, Estonia, 2008 Is Multiculturalism Dead?. Huddersfield Salon, 2007 Download slides  
Open Cities, Madrid, 2007  
Creative City, Tromsø, Trondheim, Kristiansand, Norway, 2007   
Achieving Diversity Advantage for Cities, Toronto, 2006  
World Summit on Arts and Culture, Gateshead, 2006  
Creative City, Boise, USA, 2005  
The Creative City, Noril’sk, Russia, 2005 
Creating Cultural Capital, Arkhangel’sk, Russia, 2004 
Culture in Urban Development, Umeå, Sweden, 2003 
Creative City South Africa, Johannesburg, 2000 The World Congress on Town Centre Management, London, 2000 
The Creative City, Amsterdam Summer University, 2000