{"id":14659,"date":"2025-06-10T21:33:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T16:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/?p=14659"},"modified":"2025-06-10T21:33:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T16:33:42","slug":"kreativnaya-ekonomika-ot-kulturnogo-naslediya-k-investitsionnomu-budushhemu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/novosti-uzbekistana\/kreativnaya-ekonomika-ot-kulturnogo-naslediya-k-investitsionnomu-budushhemu\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Economy: from cultural heritage to an investment future"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>As part of the Tashkent International Investment Forum program, the session \u201cCreative Economy: From Cultural Heritage to Investment Future\u201d explored the significance of creative industries in the global economy, their role in diversifying revenue streams, creating new employment opportunities, and promoting sustainable development, the press service of the MIIT <a href=\"https:\/\/gov.uz\/en\/miit\/news\/view\/60114\">reports<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/76dd4e37-7447-eec5-22af-281f8fad5bec_lists_slider_.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14660\" src=\"http:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/76dd4e37-7447-eec5-22af-281f8fad5bec_lists_slider_-1024x682.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/76dd4e37-7447-eec5-22af-281f8fad5bec_lists_slider_-1024x682.webp 1024w, https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/76dd4e37-7447-eec5-22af-281f8fad5bec_lists_slider_-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/76dd4e37-7447-eec5-22af-281f8fad5bec_lists_slider_-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/76dd4e37-7447-eec5-22af-281f8fad5bec_lists_slider_-254x169.webp 254w, https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/76dd4e37-7447-eec5-22af-281f8fad5bec_lists_slider_.webp 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artistic Director of the Bukhara Biennial Diana Campbell shared that the international strategy of the Culture and Arts Development Foundation is to support the talents that already exist in Uzbekistan by involving them in international dialogue and collaborative creativity. She also added that art is an opportunity to change someone\u2019s economic reality.<\/p>\n<p><em>Although our first\u00a0<\/em><em>biennial<\/em><em>\u00a0hasn<\/em><em>\u2019<\/em><em>t even opened yet, many hotels are already fully booked because fans of these artists are traveling to Uzbekistan to see what they will create here. What\u2019s also interesting is that in Uzbekistan, artists work in a completely different way compared to anywhere else in the world, due to the unique context. We use historic Silk Road buildings, former madrasas, mosques, and caravanserais, which are now being transformed by contemporary art<\/em><em>,\u00a0<\/em>added Diana Campbell.<\/p>\n<p>The session addressed important topics such as Uzbekistan\u2019s rich cultural heritage, the developing creative ecosystem, and investment opportunities in these areas\u2014crafts, cultural tourism, contemporary art centers, and projects within international festivals.<\/p>\n<p>Curator and Artistic Director of the Center for Contemporary Arts in Tashkent Sara Raza explained that the center will serve as a springboard \u2014 not only in itself but as part of a broader system. She noted that this is not just about creativity but about building community.<\/p>\n<p><em>We need to rethink how the system can play such a role. We\u2019ll need to hire new specialists, and it\u2019s important to understand that not everyone will be an artist or a curator. We\u2019ll also need architects, designers, photographers, urban planners, educators, workshop organizers, and development and marketing specialists. This is a diverse ecosystem, and we want to attract people from different fields. The art center is located just a ten-minute walk from Westminster International University in Tashkent, and we\u2019re already in talks with them about launching a master\u2019s program where I will also teach. We want young people to use art and culture<\/em>\u00a0as a\u00a0<em>tool for rethinking society, ideas, and approaches,<\/em>\u00a0Raza noted.<\/p>\n<p>Participants discussed strengthening the country\u2019s international brand through the creative sector, creating conditions for young creative professionals and creative enterprises, and transforming culture and art into a driving force for economic development.<\/p>\n<p><em>Here in Uzbekistan, there are so many talented and inspiring contemporary artists who simply haven\u2019t had the opportunity to enter the international arena yet. And in my opinion, what\u2019s most exciting is that all the works presented at the Bukhara Biennale are commissioned projects.\u00a0<\/em><em>These are new works developed together with artists and in collaboration with Uzbekistan\u2019s craftspeople<\/em><em>. I want to see how these works will travel to museums around the world in the future. And also how the artists themselves will get the chance to travel, learn, and develop,<\/em>\u00a0Campbell concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was marked as one of the important steps toward making the creative economy a strategic direction in Uzbekistan and forming an attractive new platform for foreign investors.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Tashkent International Investment Forum program, the session \u201cCreative Economy: From Cultural Heritage to Investment Future\u201d explored the significance of creative industries in the global economy, their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti-uzbekistana"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14661,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659\/revisions\/14661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}