On May 17, the 10th National Culture Forum 2025 took place at the LMTA study campus, bringing together leaders from the creative industries, city visionaries, and cultural professionals from Lithuania and abroad.
 

Among the forum’s distinguished guests was renowned urban development and innovation expert Charles Landry, whose book „Kūrybinis miestas: priemonės miestų novatoriams“ („The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators“) was translated and published by VILNIUS TECH. The translation was done by Jovilė Barevičiūtė, a lecturer at the VILNIUS TECH Faculty of Creative Industries.
 

Charles Landry’s book is considered one of the most important studies on the contemporary European city, maintaining its relevance well into the 21st century. The creative city is an open, tolerant, and liberal space that encourages the spread of diverse social, cultural, technological, business, artistic, and scientific practices. It fosters unexpected urban synergies and syntheses, spontaneous discoveries, and experimentation. The creative city serves as an aspiration and guiding principle for many cities across Europe and the world, offering a path toward solving both long-standing and emerging urban challenges. Landry’s concept provides a fundamentally new perspective on the vitality and renewal of not only Europe’s major metropolises but also its smaller urban communities – now and in the future.

Cities like Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn, Warsaw, Minsk, and many others are no longer in the shadow of Europe’s most renowned metropolises. They are confidently and persistently establishing themselves as centers of culture, creativity, and innovation, attracting global attention.

Forum participants had the opportunity to purchase the book and receive an autograph from Charles Landry himself.

If you haven’t yet acquired Charles Landry’s book, you can purchase it from the VILNIUS TECH online store: https://shorturl.at/wo0be