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14.05.2012 Urban Revitalization by Art
The City of Dueren in Germany has 93.000 inhabitants and is placed half-way inbetween Aachen were Charles the Great became Ceasar in the year 800 and Cologne, which was in the medieval time beside Jerusalem, Constantinople /Istanbul and Rome the fourth Holy City of Christianity . Next to Düren a burial-ground was found which dates back to 5100 before Christ. The place was mentioned as a city first in the year 747. In the World War II 99.2 percent of all houses had been destroyed – among it also the water-castle Schloss Burgau built in the15 th Century. Rebuilt between 1975 and 1998 today 450 sq.m of the Castle Burgau is used for changing exhibitions.
By a joint initiative of the European Retail Academy and the Art Sponsors of Dueren students of the Alanus University of Art and Society. will exhibit their pieces of art in October 2012 under the title “Earth and Cosmos – local and international: an interactive dialogue with citizens of Dueren. (More information in German)
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06.04.2012 Industrial Monument Route
Owing to the dynamic growth of industry as well as the application of the most up-to-date achievements of technology, the Upper-Silesia/Poland became known in the whole Europe at the turn of 18th century. This means it has always been associated with a large number of industrial plants and factories, as well as vast amounts of dust and pollution.
Time has changed and today the Silesian Province has got catalogued resources of industrial heritage, 149 of the sites have been registered as monuments. The Industrial Monuments Route of the Silesian Province is a theme, car based tourist trail of a regional scope, including objects connected with the industrial heritage of the Silesian region. It is composed of 36 facilities associated with the traditions of mining and metallurgy, electricity generation, railways, communications, production of water and the food industry. The project has been executed by the Regional Promotion, Tourism and Sport Department of the Marshal Office of the region of Silesia. (More impressions)
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23.03.2012 Enlarging Moscow
Moscow government together with the neighbouring communities want to create a “Big Moscow Area” increasing the surface of the core-city more than 2.4 times. It is intended to be an immense springboard for the development of various business areas: infrastructure, transport networks, retail, social spheres and many others.
An important role will play within that master plan modern stores and innovation technologies like the Future store in Germany by the real/Metro Group . The European Retail Academy will support an international retail conference in Moscow in July 2012 (Web-Site and More information in English)
Trainees at the ERA therefore used their smartphones to create a YouTube-Video as a teaser for innovation in retail. City Marketing and Regional Planning becomes a hot topic in Russia also beyond the borders of Moscow – as also discussed by the radio-program Voice of Russia with Prof.Dr.Hallier
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16.02.2012 Artists’ Intertwine
In many Western European Cities there can be proved a long-standing relationship between merchants, sponsors, art. The German city of Cologne is such on example where from the medieval times uptill today there is a big impact of such a relationship.
One of the stars of modern art (Fluxus Movement) in the 60ies/70ies was Mary Bauermeister. Together with her partner, the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen she travelled to Africa, America, Asia and through all of Europe in search for new ideas and joint cross-cultural exhibitions. Living today in Roesrath-Forsbach in a suburb next to Prof.Dr.Hallier from the European Retail Academy her house and her garden is a museum open free of charge for everybody. She intends to handover house, garden and all the exhibition-items as a gift to the city. (More impression)
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10.01.2012 Twin-City reader
In preparation of the German-Russian Twin-City Meeting 2013 in Ujlanovsk/Russia a bi-lingual reader will be published by the network of the European Retail Academy and its president Prof Dr. B. Hallier (see also News of October 25th 2011)
The first Russian student-groups started to gather material from the Homesites of the cities. Other groups from Russia and Germany will follow to complete the draft-input uptill summer 2012. ( more )
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