Christopher Gordon has worked in the arts/cultural policy professionally for 40 years. He is a freelance consultant, university teacher and writer/researcher. Having half-trained as a Classical archaeologist, changed direction into arts management and then policy development, implementation and evaluation. Some … Read More
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Climate change: artists respond
Many scientists agree that climate change – including global warming – is possibly one of the greatest threats and one of the biggest challenges facing our society today. In response to this global problem, artistic communities across Europe are initiating … Read More
Greening the Arts: Thinkpieces for a zero carbon future and a survey of sustainable arts practices
Recently launched collaborative Research in focus “Climate Change: Artists Respond” on LabforCulture aims at investigating whether artistic work and actions can influence sustainability – and if so, how? We collected there diverse viewpoints, made interviews, and summarized results of mapping … Read More
The m-learning environment
We experience today a major shift in the way we interact with each other, share, exchange and use information and knowledge. We become more mobile, using our cell phones as a primary interface for communicating, surfing the web, listening to … Read More
What we really need is a “thinking arts manager”
Herwig Pöschl started his career as a creator in the field of music for film and media in the 70s. He is curator for regional and urban cultural development and creative industries, as well as an innovative educational cultural producer. He … Read More
Applying artistic methods in business management, training and beyond
Art and artists have a special ability to provoke thinking, to use creativity and innovation, to improvise and experiment, to extract the “invisible”, to symbolize, to bring our emotions on the surface. Artists experiment, raise awareness, challenge us, make our … Read More
A fresh approach to culture-led regeneration policies
Claire Bullen (UK) is the winner of the 7th Cultural Policy Research Award 2010 (CPRA). Claire is a 2nd year PhD Student at the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures – an inter-disciplinary research centre at the University of Manchester. The … Read More
Backup and storage online your research work
Online storage and online transfer is becoming more and more important: especially when we need to share our research work, or we change locations often and we need to access our files from another computer. Computers sometimes create problems and … Read More
Artistic collaboration: could online groups create art?
Collaboration has a long history in art and has always been part of artists’ life. Artists are considered by many as “lonely creatures”, but they also need to perform, to be recognised, to be seen. They can hardly live without … Read More
“We are still at the beginning when it comes to transnational cultural policies”: Therese Kaufmann shares
Therese Kaufmann is a co-director of the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies in Vienna (eipcp), and one of the editors of the multilingual web journal transversal. She currently coordinates the multi-annual research project Creating Worlds (2009-2012). She has worked in a number … Read More