Melissa Butcher
Dr. Melissa Butcher is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at The Open University. The focus of her research is transnational mobility, cultural change, intercultural competence and conflict in diverse urban spaces, emphasising questions of identity and belonging. Before joining the OU, Melissa lived and worked in India, taught in universities in Ireland and Australia, and has also worked as a journalist, and a development education and intercultural trainer in the private, government and community sectors. Her recent publications include: ‘Managing Cultural Change: Reclaiming Synchronicity in a Mobile World’ (Ashgate 2011) ‘Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia’s Cities‘ (with S. Velayutham, Routledge 2009), ‘Ingenious: Emerging Youth Cultures in Urban Australia‘ (with Mandy Thomas, Pluto Press, 2003), and ‘Transnational Television, Cultural Identity and Change: When STAR Came to India‘ (Sage, 2003). Melissa presents and writes regularly on issues relating to globalisation, migration, urban diversity, youth culture and global human resources management.
Tags: access to culture, conflict and culture, cultural diversity, cultural identity, cultural participation, culture and society, culture and youthBjarki Valtysson
Bjarki Valtysson is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen and has a background in literature, cultural studies, and digital communication. His research interests include cultural, media, and communication policies and regulation, particularly in terms of the politics of social media and networked cultures. He also researches the application and reception of social media within the area of museums, archives, libraries, and social network sites as well as how these relate to production, distribution, use, and consumption in digital cultures. His research interests also include digital media and democracy, with a focus on digital public spheres, networked publics, and counterpublics. Valtysson recently published a book on Icelandic cultural policy.
Bjarki is also a Compendium author for Denmark’s cultural policy and has a blog dedicated to writings on digital culture and communication.
He holds a PHD from Institute for Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University, a MA in Modern Culture and Cultural Communication from University of Copenhagen and a BA in Comparative Literature from University of Iceland. His PhD thesis, Access Culture – The Remixable Culture of Prosumers and the Cultural Policy of the European Union, focuses on the notion of access culture (policies, copyright, etc.), digital public spheres, networked publics (and counter-publics) and prosumers (producer-consumer). Objectives of analysis include internet art, the Europeana digital library, EU directives on the audiovisual sector, databases such as the Internet Archive and BBC’s Creative Archive, and collaborative open source inspired projects like Elephants Dream.
Valtysson is a member of the Digital Culture and Mobile Communication research group at ITU, and a member of the Center for Network Culture at ITU.
Tags: access to culture, cultural research, culture and communication, Denmark, digital culture/new technologies, EU policies, new mediaKulturpunkt
The Kulturpunkt.hr is a non-governmental media portal and information service covering culture and contemporary art news and topics, with the main focus on the independent cultural scene in Croatia. It is strategically contributing to cultural media diversity in Croatia.
Initiated in 2005 by the Clubture Network and run by Kurziv – Platform for Matters of Culture, Media and Society NGO, Kulturpunkt.hr is aiming to increase the influence and public visibility of the independent cultural sector, constantly encouraging social and political participation, monitoring civic initiatives and advocacy processes, youth culture, urban culture, social activism, new technologies, alternative economies, free software and many other social, political and economic features which have direct impact on cultural production in Croatia.
Its editorial approach is analytical and critical. In addition to regular portal news topics, announcements, current information on funding opportunities, there are several editorial subcategories (Poptika, Kulturskop and Kultrapunkt) covering phenomenons of popular culture and providing theoretical texts and insights into the cultural politics of Southeastern Europe with a special focus on cultural policies in transition, non-governmental SEE trends, cultural decentralisation and new public culture. Kulturpunkt.hr is covering “Criticize this!,”a collaborative media initiative between Kulturtreger and Kurziv from Croatia, KPZ Beton and SEEcult.org from Serbia, and Plima from Montenegro.
Tags: access to culture, Croatia, cultural advocacy, cultural diversity, cultural participation, mediaDanish Cultural Institute
The Danish Cultural Institute is an independent institution supported by the Danish Ministry of Culture. The Institute was established in 1940. The objectives of the Institute are to promote cultural exchange between Denmark and other nations and regions, to inform about Denmark and support long-term cooperation between foreign and Danish cultural institutions, artists and other professionals. The activities evolve around cultural projects, publishing activities, exhibitions, concerts, conferences, seminars, training and education both abroad and in Denmark. These are coordinated through the head office in Copenhagen and branch offices in Benelux, Brazil, China, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and the United Kingdom. The Institute also enables the Job Swop, an international exchange of staff and arranges study tours for groups with special professional interests within its network.
Tags: access to culture, cultural cooperation, cultural diversity, cultural education, cultural exchange, cultural programmes, Denmark, External Relations and Culture, Training and Professional DevelopmentCultural Center REX
Cultural Center REX is a laboratory for research of new fields of culture. The centre is the member of the European Network of Independent Cultural Centres – Trans Europe Halles, the coalition of centres for creative development and use of new media (the ECB network – European cultural backbone), the Clubture – the informal regional project platform (M2, Croatia) and the Association of Independent Cultural Scene of Serbia.
REX was formed in 1994 by Belgrade based radiostation B92, by the name of Cinema REX and as a cultural centre space for providing the conditions for realisation and presentation of domestic production from the field of theatre and visual arts, music, film, video, new media; organizing workshops, promotions and discussion and being actively involved in social and political movements, networking the co-operations throughout Yugoslavia.
REX is coverning contemporary culture and promoting creative use of new media by:
- supporting production and presentation of analytical and critical culture;
- promoting values of open and democratic society and culture and art that reflect current civil needs and initiatives;
- carries out projects in collaboration with cultural workers active on local or ex-Yugoslav scene;
- carries out programmes in Belgrade and throughout Serbia with the aim of playing an active part in the European cultural milieu: organizes guest visits of various artists, participates in forums and workshops, initiates and carries out international projects, exchanges programmes and experiences with similar centres;
- insists on working with young people and audience, emphasizing educational aspect of such an activity;
- creates a “free zone” for discussion about current political and social processes.
Some of the REX culture and exchange activities in focus are:
The Crossroads East West programme focus is on detecting and analyzing different processes and projects of intercultural dialogue of existing cultural and artistic project activities, and mapping of intercultural dialogue in Serbia focused on contemporary cultural and artistic sphere in order to explore and better understand the nature and capacity of intercultural dialog in the Eastern and Western Europe. The Crossroads East West intercultural dialogue programme meetings and debates are part of the Engine Room Europe, a three-year project focusing on independent cultural workers and their field of activity.
Engine Room Europe, REX is one of 11 co-organisers in a three-year capacity building project dedicated to the sustainable future of the European independent cultural sector through investment in its cultural workers and their creative processes. This objective will be achieved by a three-year programme of Europe wide activities. The main aim of the project is to enhance the capacity and sustainability of independent culture in Europe. The project is carried out with the support of the European Commission.
Mission Less Probable is a REX series of public presentations and debates, held by artists, architects, cultural workers, policy makers and NGO activists chiefly from the SEE region with the task of locate and analyse the gaps between aims and real outcomes of the selected case study artistic, architectural, civil society or cultural policy-related production.
Intercultural Dialogues’ Mapping in the Republic of Serbia is a project of Working Group for preservation of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue, realized by Serbian Ministry of Culture and Cultural Centre Rex as a partner organization. Project of Mapping and Affirmation of Projects and Processes of Intercultural Dialogues in the Republic of Serbia serve to locate and research different aspects of intercultural dialogues under conditions that are characteristic for Serbia and within the existing cultural, activist or research practice.
Tags: access to culture, Beograd, cultural cooperation, cultural production, intercultural dialogue, mobility, Serbia, South East EuropePavla Petrová
Pavla Petrová has a professional experience in cultural management working on projects and for large cultural institutions. As a team member of different expert and working groups she was involved in the field of cultural policy and mobility of artists and cultural professionals. In March 2008, Pavla was appointed as the Director of the Arts and Theatre Institute in Prague.
Previously she has been working for the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic focusing on theatre, dance, visual arts, music, literature and libraries. She also worked as the producer manager of the International Festival of New Dance CONFRONTATIONS 2001 and the producer of the Central European Dance Platform 2002. Between 2004 and 2005, as a member of the expert team she helped prepare a first strategic legal instrument in the Czech Republic in the field of arts, “The Concept for More Efficient Support of the Arts in 2007 – 2013″. She has been a national correspondent for the study “Mobility Matters: Programmes and Schemes to Support the Mobility of Artists and Cultural Professionals” (ERICarts, 2008) and the study “Access of Young People to Culture” (InterArts, 2009). Pavla was the Director of the Prague Quadrenniel 2011.
Ms. Petrova is also a vice-chairperson of “The Administrative Board of Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague”, a member of “OMC Working Group on Mobility of Artists and other Culture Professionals” in Brussels, a chairperson of “The Programme Board of Artistic Residencies and Study Scholarships for Artists of the Ministry of Culture”, a member of the Research Team of the Research Grant “Mapping Cultural and Creative Industries in the Czech Republic 2011-2015″ and a member of “The Czech Commission for UNESCO”.
She is the author of numerous articles and several books. She has background in economics and management.
Tags: access to culture, arts management, cultural management, Czech Republic, mobility of artists, Mobility of Cultural Professionals, performing artsFelix Meritis
Felix Meritis is an independent European centre for art, culture, science as well as an (inter)national meeting place in Amsterdam that aims to stimulate and reinforce the (international) relations between the arts, media, education, sciences, culture, politics and trade. It provides the European public with a space for reflection and connection, a home in which they can network and be surprised. Under the motto ”Connecting Cultures” the Centre fosters the European dialogue and takes part in national and international cultural networks. Through deeper understanding and dialogue with different groups in Europe and the world, Felix Meritis strengthens the insight into and understanding of the European cultural integration process among citizens of Amsterdam, Europe and the world. In Felix Meritis art, culture, philosophy and politics are matters of everyday life. It continues the values of the Enlightenment that led its founders (40 citizens) to erect one of the grandest buildings on the Keizersgracht with Holland’s oldest purpose-built concert hall (opened in 1788).
Felix Meritis has initiated many international projects, such as Gulliver Connect, Essay International, The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University, Kuhnya, the Network of Centres for European Culture and Debate (NCECD) and many others.
Tags: access to culture, cultural and creative industries, cultural cooperation, cultural participation, cultural policy, EU, intercultural dialogue, networkingAlessandro Bollo
Alessandro Bollo is one of the founders of Fondazione Fitzcarraldo an international independent centre for research, training, planning, and documentation on cultural, arts and media management, economics and policies based in Turin, Italy, where he is currently responsible for the Research and Consultancy Unit. Mr Bollo works also as a Professor of Marketing and Communication of Cultural Heritage and Activities at Polytechnic of Turin – II Faculty of Architecture, and as a lecturer at various courses for cultural operators in Italy and abroad. He was one of the members of the evaluation team of the cultural policy of Montenegro for the Council of Europe project in 2003. He has worked as the Coordinator of the Cultural Observatory of Piedmont, and as the promoter of the marketing department at AISM - Italian Association on Marketing Studies, Milan, Italy. He holds a Degree in Economics (cultural marketing) and a Master in Cultural Project Management. Mr Bollo is an editor responsible for the Italian web portal on cultural marketing, Fizz . His main interests are audience research, visitor studies and access to culture.
Tags: access to culture, audience, cultural policy, cultural statistics/indicators, Italy, South East EuropeCentre for Cultural Management
Centre for Cultural Management is a Ukraine based non-governmental organisation with a mission to promote the development of Lviv’s cultural sector and bring it closer to the community’s needs. The Centre aims to encourage and support growth and development; to raise awareness among policy makers and the larger community of the role and value of culture; and to act as a model for other initiatives around the country.
Its long term objectives include:
- raising awareness for cultural change;
- developing the capacity and providing policy advice on national and local levels;
- cultural advocacy and lobbying for the cultural policies;
- integrating the Lviv and Ukrainian cultural sector into the international cultural system;
- providing consultancy services to the cultural institutions and policy makers;
- creating a cultural management network in Ukraine.
The Centre is a member of ENCATC (European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres). In 2011 and 2012 the Centre is carrying out the Tandem project, which aims to promote and underpin a ‘trans-nationalisation’ of present-day practice and discourse in Western and Eastern European arts and culture by creating new cooperation links between selected organisations from the EU and key cultural operators from Ukraine and Moldova.
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