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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 Tamsyn Dent Research Fellow at King’s College London, UK /CONTEXT Diversity, intersectionality and care in the UK screen sector Diversity and inclusion are globally agreed to be a good thing for creative and cultural work, celebrated for both its economic and social benefit (UNDP & UNESCO, 2013). Why then, is the creative and cultural workforceRead more

ENCATC elaboration based on the Keynote of Milena Dragićević Šešić Head of the UNESCO Chair in Interculturalism, Art Management and Mediation, Serbia /CONTEXT Ethical Challenges in the Era of Academic Capitalism: Mission of Critically Engaged University Full video of the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJGgJOTb8Kw Why this topic? 10 years ago, Milena was chosen among 40 professors toRead more

Par Kenza Sefrioui Directrice des éditions EN TOUTES LETTRES, Casablanca /CASE ANALYSIS Être éditeur au Maroc Outre le plaisir d’accompagner des auteurs et de travailler à haut niveau sur des sujets passionnants, hors de toute routine intellectuelle, être éditeur au Maroc, c’est accepter de relever de nombreux défis économiques et politiques et de se confronterRead more

By Sofia Margarida de Castro Barros Correia dos Santos Archivist – public organization /Case Analysis Building the cultural heritage through Archives and Arts – three case studies Introduction Archives can be described as a place in which public records or historical materials, such as documents are preserved and safeguard (Dicionário de Terminologia Arquivística Brasileiro, 2005). The ArchivesRead more

By Eleonora Psenner Eurac Research – Institute for Regional Development /Case Analysis Cultural organizations leveraging social integration in disadvantaged neighbourhoods – a case study approach Introduction In the past decades, urban and cultural policies tended to follow models, including the ones of creative economy, creative and knowledge industries, creative cities, incubation hubs, coworking spaces andRead 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 Claudia S. Quiñones Vilá Amineddoleh & Associates /CONTEXT Using Education to Enhance Cultural Diversity and Exchange Why Culture, Why Now? The European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH) 2018 represents a turning point for the development of a common European heritage. EYCH also brought attention to the fact that in order to properly preserve culture,Read more

By GiannaLia Cogliandro Beyens ENCATC Secretary General and editor of the /encatcSCHOLAR /Editorial Because culture does have a say in Europe’s refugee crisis The 6th ENCATC Academy on Culture in External Relations (Brussels, 27-28 March 2017) was devoted to “The question of culture in Europe’s refugee crisis”. The focus on this topic showed ENCATC’s commitment toRead 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 Ana Sécio Head of communication of EMERGE, Cultural Association /Interview Interview with Márcio Carvalho Artist and independent curator Your work as a performer artist is always related to the concept of memory, namely to the collective memory. How did you choose performance as a way of expressing you as an artist and how didRead more

By ENCATC /Proceedings 6th ENCATC Academy on Culture in External Relations – The question of culture in Europe’s refugee crisis On the 27-28 March 2017, 33 participants gathered for ENCATC’s 6th Academy on Culture in External Relations. The two-day intensive learning programme focused on “the question of culture in Europe’s refugee crisis”. Participants were aRead 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 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 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 Silvia Cuevas-Morales Writer /Profiles David Throsby (1939), renowned Australian economist, has gained international recognition for his research and writings in the economics of the arts and culture. A distinguished professor in the Department of Economics, at Macquarie University, Sydney, Throsby holds Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from the University of Sydney and aRead 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 Thomas Perrin Lecturer in Spatial Planning and European Studies Lille University, Research Centre TVES /Case Analysis Euroregional cultural policy Context Thanks to the specific funding provided by European Union (EU) regional policy – mainly the programmes for territorial cooperation – European local and regional authorities set up more than 100 cross-border cooperative organisations that are commonlyRead 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  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