Nantes: cultural audit of a creative city
Art & Business | The 1987 closure of naval shipyards shut down Nantes, a moribund city stuck in a nostalgic vision of a prestigious economic past built on maritime commerce and agribusiness. Today, Nantes proudly shows off its appeal for tourists with the ambition of joining the ranks of European metropolises. Its resurrection in only twenty-some years has been audaciously built on a development strategy centred on the creative sector.
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La Fabrique (Stereolux et Trempolino). Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) 11_2011
© Jean-Dominique Billaud / Samoa
The virtuous circle of well-managed cultural policy
Nantes owes its resilience to mayor Jean-Marc Ayrault’s choice of a cultural policy founded on creative work, as advocatd by Jean Blaise. This live theatre artistic director, a pillar of the city since the 80’s, initiated the Festival des Allumés from 1990 to 1995. Ten years later, the abandoned L.U. (Lefèvre-Utiles) biscuit factory was renovated and reactivated as a cultural space, christened the […]
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