By Antonia Silvaggi, Head of Skills for Culture, Founder, Melting Pro, Italy ABSTRACT In a rapidly evolving cultural landscape, researchers and professionals are increasingly expected to bridge the gap between academic knowledge and societal challenges. The OFFICINA CHANGES programme, developed by DINAMICA (Melting Pro, Ideazione s.r.l., and BAM! Strategie Culturali) for Fondazione CHANGES, supports aRead more
By Gigi Guizzo, Senior Development Manager, Rinova, Spain Introduction: A Personal Trajectory into Cultural Rights Over the past two decades, I have had the privilege of working across different European countries on initiatives that connect the arts with education, social action, and community development. My professional path has taken me from local programmes in neighbourhoodRead more
By Dr. Milena Stefanovic, Assistant professor, Faculty of Dramatic Arts (University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia) /TEACHING EXPERIENCES Environmental sustainability and concert industry Introduction or why we need to teach environment sustainability issues to students During one of the Strategic Management and Marketing lectures I teach to the Faculty of Drama Master’s students, we discussed trendsRead more
By Caitlin McKinnon, PhD candidate, Queen Margaret University (and the University of Stirling) /TEACHING EXPERIENCES Making the Familiar Strange: Using zines as a reflective tool in arts management education Defining a zine To define a zine is no easy task, for as Dr. Ash Watson notes “a zine is often understood by what it isRead more
By Geert Drion Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands /TEACHING EXPERIENCES Co-creating cultural encounter Introduction In Europe, for cultural organisations, managers, practitioners, policy makers and network-builders alike, the need for new vocabularies and methods for (cross-)cultural encounters has become increasingly urgent, given the polarised cultural discourse that contextualises their work. In the Netherlands, a new framework was developedRead more
By Dr. Hyung Yu Park Associate Professor, Tourism Studies, Department of Marketing, Enterprise and Tourism (Middlesex University, UK) /TEACHING EXPERIENCES Digital Storytelling – Individual Meaning-making for Heritage Tourism Introduction Experiential learning emphasises student-centred, collaborative and inclusive methods that are often difficult to implement in traditional teaching environments. In order to maximise the benefits of experientialRead more
By Prof. Dr. Julia Glesner (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam) and Sara Tvrdišić (University of Arts in Belgrade) /TEACHING EXPERIENCES How to use ChatGPT in Cultural Marketing? Introduction In November 2022, the US company OpenAI launched its chatbot ChatGPT built on top of its large language models (LLMs). “This chatbot has redefined the standards of artificialRead more
By Prof. Dr. Julia Glesner University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany /TEACHING EXPERIENCES Cultural Organizations Collectively Led – Opportunities and Challenges Introduction: Collective leadership – or, depending on the definition, shared leadership – (Rybnikova & Lang, 2021) is being intensively tested in the cultural sector. From an academic point of view, the opportunities of this model areRead more
By Julie Goodman Drexel University /TEACHING EXPERIENCES Whose Values? Decolonizing Discussions of Cultural Policy Introduction Cultural policy is, “the sum of a government’s activities with respect to the arts (including the for-profit cultural industries), the humanities, and heritage,” (Mulcahy 2006). The study of cultural policy in arts management education, then, is most often concerned withRead more
By Dr Carla Figueira (Goldsmiths, University of London) /TEACHING EXPERIENCES Sharing learning and teaching experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic Introduction Despite all the challenges that the Covid-19 pandemic brought about, it represented, in my personal context of postgraduate teaching in Higher Education in the UK, an amazing learning opportunity. The switch from face-to-face teachingRead more
By Dr. Valentina Volpi (Link Campus University); Prof. José Marín-Roig Ramón (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia); Prof. Mª Asunción Pérez Pascual (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia); Prof. Mª José Canet Subiela (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia) /TEACHING EXPERIENCES O-City Learn: An open and free learning resource for creating competences in the Orange Economy Introduction The creation ofRead more
By Dr. Xela Batchelder(Waynesburg University); Thomas Karr, MFA (Wayne State University); Dr. Brett Ashley Crawford (Carnegie Mellon University); Brenda Lee Johnston, MAM (Butler University); and Dr. Amy Shimshon-Santo, Ph.D. (Claremont Graduate University) /TEACHING EXPERIENCE Using Podcasts to Enhance Student Learning Inside & Outside the Classroom Introduction As technology evolves and the society we liveRead more
By Elena SV Flys Eastern Michigan University /TEACHING EXPERIENCE Accessibility Design as part of the Arts Curriculum Introduction This short paper highlights the contradiction of the arts seeking social inclusion and justice but still being inaccessible to many stakeholders, due to the lack of access services. When accessibility is mentioned, usually people think exclusively ofRead more
By Dr. Devandré Boonzaaier Senior Lecturer, University of Fort Hare, South Africa /TEACHING EXPERIENCE A humanizing pedagogy for the music and arts administration curriculum Introduction The University of Fort Hare is just over a century old. The music department at the University of Fort Hare can trace roots back to the 1970s. Since 2012, theRead more
By Marju Mäger, Tiiu Männiste, Andres Rõigas Tartu University Viljandi Culture Academy /TEACHING EXPERIENCE The role of entrepreneurial competencies in entrepreneurship education in the field of culture management Keywords: entrepreneurship education, competencies, creative industries, culture management. Entrepreneurship education, which today plays an important role in the educational landscape, provides grounds to claim that the entrepreneurialRead more
By Susan Badger Booth Hongik University, South Korea Eastern Michigan University By Elena SV Flys Eastern Michigan University /TEACHING EXPERIENCE The Impact of COVID19 in Experiential Learning Activities: Challenges of an Online Setting As COVID19 advances, the uncertainty of teaching and engaging with the arts grows. This short paper highlights the experiences and challenges that both teachersRead more
By Federico Bucci and Elena Montanari Politecnico di Milano /TEACHING EXPERIENCE Learning Through Space: Heritage Buildings as Classrooms in the MantovArchitettura Experience Introduction In the present scenario, while education programmes need to confront with new challenges – especially ensuing from remarkable socio-cultural changes modifying cognitive processes and behaviors, and the pervasive integration of digital toolsRead more
By Rui A. S. Esteves Área Metropolitana do Porto (Portugal) /TEACHING EXPERIENCE Network of Cybersecurity Classrooms for Kids Cybersecurity is one of the main topics in the real world, not only in cyberspace. We must be alert and protected because we are all time connected and all time online. Creating courses to teach Cybersecurity toRead more
By Sanja Petricic and David Edelman Sanja Petricic Associate Professor, Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University (Belgrade, Serbia) David Edelman Associate Professor and Director of the Performing Arts Leadership and Management Program, Shenandoah Conservatory (Virginia, USA) /Teaching experience Leadership in a multicultural environment within the field of performing arts A case study on theRead more
By Lucie Šilerová and Martin Pešl Lucie Šilerova Assistant professor, Music Faculty, Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts (JAMU, Brno, Czech Republic) Martin Pešl Assistant professor, Medical Faculty, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic /Teaching experience Music Agency Trials as a practical tool for professional music management education Music management students and their curricula atRead more
By Shraddha Bhatawadekar Humboldt German Chancellor Fellow and Nehru-Fullbright Fellow /Teaching experience Importance of experiential education: heritage walks as a tool for engaging youth in heritage Heritage walks are an important experiential model for heritage education. These tours involve physically walking in the area, which allows for personal observations and offers several nuances of heritageRead more
By Antonia Silvaggi, Federica Pesce and Steve Bellis Melting Pro (Antonia Silvaggi and Federica Pesce) and Storypoint (Steve Bellis) /Teaching experience How to use Digital Storytelling to develop cultural managers’ employability in challenging times Introduction This article aims to discuss the use of the digital storytelling (DS) methodology mutated from the StoryCenter methodology to increaseRead more
By Tanja Johansson, Aino-Maija Lahtinenn & Hannu Ojala Tanja Johansson, PhD, Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki; Aino-Maija Lahtinen, PhD, University of Helsinki; Hannu Ojala, PhD (Economics), M.A. (Education) University of Tampere and Aalto University School of Business /Teaching experiences Art-based business learning in arts management education. Abstract We examine teaching and learning challengesRead more
By Lida Tsene, PhD Teaching Associate, Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University/ MA Communication and Journalism, Open University of Cyprus /Teaching experiences Entrepreneurial and Social Media Experiments in Arts Management. Couple of months ago I came across an interesting article by Anne-Maria Imafidon posted in Guardian’s Culture Professionals Network section. The article arguedRead more
By Javier Sarsa & Rebeca Soler University of Zaragoza, Spain /Teaching experiences The video lectures revolution. ABSTRACT Video Lectures have achieved success even earlier than many other ICT-based teaching methodologies. Students find those technologies highly useful. They know how to use them and, in fact, they do use them because they feel more comfortable whenRead more
By Bruno Verbergt University of AntwerpFaculty of Applied Economics /Teaching experiences Master program cultural management. Teaching and evaluating general and strategic management Management is a praxis in which elements of scientific analysis, professional skills & experience and creativity play a major and interactive role (Mintzberg 2010). Many management courses aim at developing management skills orRead more
