The School of Information Sciences (ESI) is organizing in partnership with the UNESCO and The Arab Federation for Libraries and Information, its first “International Conference on Cultural Engineering and Heritage Development” on “Cultural and Creative Industries in Africa and the Arab World“. Rabat, December 4-5, 2024.

The main objective of this first edition of the International Conference on Cultural Engineering and Heritage Development is to approach the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) in African and Arab contexts and their evolution in the era of postmodernism; era that is characterized by focus on knowledge, intangibility and digitalization. While the core of CCIs remains in works of art, artistic expressions, cultural heritage, and traditional know-how, the production and reproduction models of art and culture have continued to reinvent themselves, as is the case with those of creation. Thus, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the main themes of this conference focus on the complexity of CCIs in Africa and the Arab world, their specificities, and the issues their development generates.