By Mary-Ann Schreurs Strategic Advisor at Innovate.City /ANGLES If not now, then when? Challenging times for Eindhoven and Dutch Design Week At the turn of the 21st century, the design field in Eindhoven was in a flux. Already big in consumer products made by companies as DAF but especially Philips, Philips Design, had a brilliantRead more
By Maciej W. Hofman Policy Officer at Culture Policy Unit, Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC) of the European Commission /ANGLES The impact of culture for the local development in the EU: policies, funding, future prospects It goes without saying that regions and cities in the European Union highly value their cultureRead more
By Manuel Veiga Lisbon City Council, Municipal Director of Culture /ANGLES The role of Arts and Culture in urban revitalization “Urban form is usually the product of historical evolution, but it can also be the outcome of policy” (Cotella, Evers, Rivolin and Solly, 2020). Lisbon is one of Europe’s oldest cities and, as such, its urbanRead more
Par Samba Soumbounou Afrikayna /ANGLES Approche participative pour une gestion collective du patrimoine | sensibilisation et bénévolat : Exemple de Casablanca “Pour préserver le patrimoine d’une ville, il faut d’abord faire aimer son patrimoine”. La notion du patrimoine est de nos jours, au cœur des préoccupations des grandes métropoles africaines. Au delà de sa définition,Read more
By Irma de Jong Founder and Managing Director, Cicerone Music & Art /ANGLES Get on your feet! How understanding generation management will help better organise communication within the networks of the art and music industry Intro I took my youngest niece to a musical. She is eleven years old and crazy about singing and dancing.Read more
By Nina Luostarinen Project manager of Lights on!, Humak University of Applied Sciences /ANGLES Pull together to get the Lights on! – Discussions with project partners about cross-section between cultural networks and heritage The Lights On! Project, active in 2015–2018, has been seeking to create a joint network of historical tourist attractions in Finland andRead more
By Marina Clauzet Universitat de Barcelona /Angles Refugees and art – How can arts integrate and support social inclusion of refugees? Dimensions of social exclusion To understand how to integrate individuals into society, it is necessary to go back and understand the origin of the problem, the social exclusion. The term “social exclusion” should beRead more
By Antonio Ariño Vice Chancellor of Culture and Equality, University of Valencia /Angles Cultural risks in digital societies “Someone said with great foundation of truth that printing certainly spreads scholarship, but that it would have reduced content. To read too much is bad for thought. The greatest thinkers I have found, among the erudites I haveRead more
By Jerry C Y Liu Associate Professor, Graduate School of Arts Management and Cultural Policy, National Taiwan University of Arts; President, Taiwan Association of Cultural Policy Studies /Angles The Ecology of culture and values: Implications for cultural policy and governance In this article, I argue for a cultural ecology approach to cultural policy and governance,Read more
By Bo Westas Researcher at DIK. /Angles The fourth industrial revolution is here: labour market, economic factors and competences Karl Marx (1850) once famously stated that revolutions are the locomotives of history. Let us begin with this proposition but turn it on its head and say that locomotives – and more generally technologies – areRead more
By Sara Radice Visual and exhibition designer; research fellow at Aspi-Archivio storico della psicologia italiana, Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca /Angles The open archive: toward virtual exhibition of archival contents Accessibility and use of digital archives The need for appropriate and effective communication and dissemination tools, which can respond to different audience expectations, is clearlyRead more
By Goran Tomka Researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Sport and Tourism in Novi Sad, and UNESCO Chair in cultural policy and management from Belgrade, Serbia. /Angles Cultural diversity as a battleground. As Anderson reminds us (1991), nation is “the imagined community”, and this “imagination” has to be enabled, taught, promoted, supported or, ifRead more
By Javier Hernández-Acosta Marketing faculty at the University of the Sacred Heart in Puerto Rico and lecturer in the Master Program in Cultural Agency and Management at University of Puerto Rico /Angles Understanding “Cultural Ecosystems” in Creative Industries Policies. Abstract Creative economy has become a concept adopted around the world. Countries have developed research, policies,Read more
By Dr. Anna Villarroya Associate Professor and Vice-president of the European Association of Cultural Researchers (ECURES) University of Barcelona /Angles Basics on active arts participation policies: Objectives, mechanisms, sources and common tendencies in Europe. Introduction Active involvement in arts activities is one aspect of cultural participation that has received comparatively little academic attention. Frequently, termsRead more
By Osedebamen David Oamen Department of Theatre and Media Arts, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma Edo State, Nigeria. /Angles Cultural policy evaluation as implementation redirection mechanism. Abstract This study examined cultural policy implementation evaluation, which recognized that evaluation is to measure the extent of implementation of cultural policy using formative or summative method. It emphasized theRead more
By Ramón Parramón DirectorACVic, Centre for Contemporary Arts /Angles Artistic practices, intermediate zones and social utility Utility in artistic practices Contemporary arts practices cover a wide range of techniques, tactics, strategies, attitudes and positions, carried out using different vehicles which display unique nuances and even structural innovations, making these practices possible on the levels ofRead more
By Jaime Cuenca Institute of Leisure StudiesUniversity of Deusto (Bilbao) /Angles Culture from the point of view of leisure The most widely accepted and quoted definition of culture is the one adopted by UNESCO in the Mexico City Declaration on Cultural Policies in 1982: “Culture may now be said to be the whole complex ofRead more
