In MESOC's youtube channel you can see a series of short interviews made to the principal investigators of Delphi Consultation, Toolkit, City Pilot and AU Cultura, the different projects of MESOC.
On MESOC's youtube channel you can watch a series of short interviews with the principal investigators of Delphi Consultation, Toolkit, City Pilot and AU Cultura, the different MESOC projects.
The first of the interviews to highlight is the one with Valentina Montalto, Annalisa Cicerchia, Margarida Azevedo and Toni Ramos Murphy, from Delphi Consultation. The Delphi project aims, according to Valentina Montalto, to contribute to increase the evaluation of culture in the cultural sectors, and among policy makers to try to clarify what data is needed and what methods to use to scientifically measure the social impact.
The next interviews to be highlighted are those with Francesco Molinari and Sanda Martincic-Ipsic, from MESOC Toolkit. This project is characterized to evaluate the impact of cultural practices always through the creation of social value and impact mechanisms according to the MESOC matrix that crosses cultural domains. According to Molinari and Martincic-Ipsic, the domains are Book and Press, Performing and Visual Arts, Archives, Audiovisual and Multimedia, Architecture, Library, Advertising, Heritage and Crafts. This project targets both policy makers, cultural workers and academics.
Thirdly, the project to highlight is the project dedicated to the analysis of the impact of cultural policies, the city pilot, a project that is currently operating in 11 European cities, 6 of these laboratories, including València, is currently under construction, while the other 4 are in a different phase more progress. In the case of the city of Valencia, together with the Finnish city of Turku, the impact of cultural policies related to health and well-being is analyzed. Other cities that are part of the project are Athens, Lublin, Milà, Barcelona, Cluj and Jerez de la Frontera, among others.
Finally, the AU Cultura project is worth mentioning. The director of Econcult Pau Rausell explains what is AU Cultura, a digital platform that aims to get people to evaluate the cultural services and thus be able to analyze what is the satisfaction in a cultural event and the user evaluates without the need for any researcher interviewer in front of researchers, and thus better understand the interests of consumers of culture.
