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Frédéric Martel, “Cultural Policies: Mapping a field in reinvention” (2020)

The article attempts to describe the state of “cultural policy” in a period of fundamental reinvention and provides an overview of the most important works and studies published in recent years. While digital change has transformed culture, cultural policy has adapted only slowly to this new reality. The author observes an expansion of the term “cultural policy” and describes its…

March 10, 2020

Cultural-Policies

State of the Arts, Paris

Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and La Gaîté Lyrique organized a two-day international symposium in Paris on 6 and 7 February 2020 under the motto “Towards a new cultural policy for the digital age.” The aim was to rethink cultural policy in the digital age. How can we update our cultural policy? How can the involvement of art and…

February 6, 2020

Cultural Policies

Philippe Kern, “For a Cultural European Union” (2020)

The article attempts to characterise EU intervention in the cultural field and to take stock of the achievements of cultural policy. Can we really speak of an EU cultural policy? The paper proposes common elements capable of laying the foundations for developing a genuine cultural European Union. It also stresses the need to articulate and coordinate the various cultural interventions…

January 15, 2020

Cultural-Policies Entrepreneurial Strategies

International Conference 2019: The Future Relevance of the Creative Economies – Familiar and New Narratives, Berlin

Building on the first joint conference in 2018, which was dedicated to the diversity and complexity of the cultural and creative industries, the follow-up conference discussed ways of using these factors through new narratives, methodological approaches and specific strategies. The event was organized jointly by the Federal Competence Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries (Germany) and ZHdK’s CreativeEconomies Research Venture…

October 30, 2019

Art & Design Careers Criticism & Theory Entrepreneurial Strategies

Non-paper for the German Competence Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries

As an official research partner of the KKKW (Competence Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries of the Federal Government), the CreativeEconomies Research Venture has produced a three-part series of non-papers for 2018 and 2019. These non-papers are dedicated to the current state of research on important phenomena, developments and controversies related to the creative economies. The focus lies on the…

April 1, 2019

Cultural Policies Entrepreneurial Strategies Smart Cities

Mapping Creativity, Hong Kong

The international workshop on “Mapping Creativity,” held on 25 and 26 March 2019, examined narrative strategies for promoting the creative ecosystem in Hong Kong and on a global level. The event was recognised as an associated partner programme of Art Basel Hong Kong 2019. Publications Mapping creativity: A rather global mission (PDF)Workshop Description (PDF)

March 25, 2019

Analysis Creative Economies Reports Cultural-Policies

“The Creative Industries in the Lake Constance Region” (2019)

This report contains analyses, facts, portraits, figures, comparisons and mappings that paint a multifaceted picture of the border region between Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. This is the first time that the regional significance of the creative economies in the Lake Constance region is explored and placed in its European context. The research was made possible by the International University…

February 1, 2019

Criticism & Theory Cultural-Policies

Christoph Weckerle, “Kreativwirtschaft – schillernd, unscharf, neu zu denken” (2019)

This article considers the creative industries as dynamic interaction and was published by Christoph Weckerle in “Bulletin 1/19” of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences SAGW. Christoph Weckerle, "Kreativwirtschaft – schillernd, unscharf, neu zu denken" (2019)

January 10, 2019

Portraits

Spotlight Cases

Mythology and an atlas to better understand AI

Geolocalization

The Art in the Artificial (PEC, Nesta 2020)

Creative Economy Employment Switzerland 2023

A Modern Guide to Creative Economies