By Yeşim Tonga Uriarte Postdoctoral Research Fellow, IMT Lucca /Case analysis Festivalization of fantasy culture and the growing phenomenon of comic-cons: Lucca Comics & Games Introduction Festivals are a multifaceted cultural phenomenon reflecting an active cultural process and encountered in virtually all human cultures. While their history, particularly of festive events and behavior, dates backRead 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 Silvia Cuevas-Morales Writer /Profiles Joanne Scheff Bernstein. Expert consultant, speaker, educator and author in the field of arts and culture management and marketing. Joanne Scheff Bernstein was born in Chicago, Illinois. She studied administration and marketing of the arts and culture and has extensive experience as a speaker, seminar leader and workshop facilitator acrossRead more
By Fernando Bayón Martín, PhD Researcher. Leisure and Human Development. University of Deusto. /Interview Hans Dreher, Essen-Ruhr (ROTTSTR5 Theater); Marcin Garbacki, Warsaw (Projekt Praga) & María Mur, Bilbao-Bizkaia (Consonni) Cultural and Creative Industries Projekt Praga Sector: ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN Marcin Garbacki + Karolina Tunajek (an architectural duo) The leading motif of their activity is theRead more
By Dr. Cristina Ortega Nuere Director, Institute of Leisure Studies. University of Deusto and Dr. Fernando Bayón Senior researcher. University of Deusto /Proceedings Rethinking Cultural Evaluation: Going Beyond GDP. Advance Seminar: Rethinking Cultural Evaluation: Going Beyond GDP Organizers: European network on Cultural Management and Cultural Policy Education (ENCATC) Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Cristina Ortega Nuere, ChairRead 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 Adriana Nadal Theater producer /Case Analysis Taquilla inversa: Promoting the empathic economy. A Sixto Paz Productions experience. Those cutbacks also affected the cultural sector: besides losing lots of subsidies, the sales tax has been increased from 8% to 21% at the beginning of 2013. Since then, the public decreased significantly. Context We are allRead more
