By: Claudia Sánchez (Journalism Student)

The Camagüey Art Plaza Creative Industries project is a proposal where heritage and cultural convergence is promoted to contribute to the socioeconomic development of the province.

An implementation period is planned until 2023. For its development, it has the sponsorship and financing of the European Union and non-governmental organizations such as OIKOS and CARE France.

In conversation with María Isabel Torrens Amador, Urban Planning Specialist of the Master Plan Directorate, we detail the phase in which the project is and the future plans already outlined.

Current phase

The specialist told us that so far the diagnosis and proposal of the plan have been carried out by the Directorate of Cultural Heritage. As a result of this analysis, it was found that not only the 5 main spaces that were planned from the beginning will be activated, but also that a creative circuit will be created around the historic center.

María Isabel Torrens also added that physical spaces and socio-cultural potentialities have been determined in this proposal stage. And that, in the same way, it works with the people, institutions and physical spaces that are going to constitute that creative circuit.

At the moment, the structure of the Circuit Management Unit is being organized, where the main participants will be the cultural actors promoted by specialists in other forms of management for legal and economic advice.

A project that integrates

Within the objectives set by the Creative Industries, is the recognition and consortium with emerging entrepreneurs and artisans as long as the cultural contribution has heritage and representative value.

It is expected to favor vulnerable sectors in all aspects, the outstanding idea is that the project is an engine that drives the local economy and links businesses, thus achieving an inclusive and creative economic model.

Translated by: Aileen Álvarez García