The social impact of culture in Europe. Recent Contributions

Sanjuán Belda, Jordi Rausell-Köster, Pau

Informe sobre l'estat de la cultura a Espanya 2023.

The idea that culture plays a central role in development processes is increasingly accepted, both at academic level and by public administrations and supranational institutions, especially the European Union. From the field of knowledge and research, more solid and forceful evidence is provided that establish causal links between culture and creativity and multiple impacts on social and economic variables. This chapter summarizes the main results of a study that, through new and complex causal machine learning techniques, analyzes the impacts of cultural and creative sectors in European regions on various welfare dimensions, including income, employment, education, health or sense of...

The idea that culture plays a central role in development processes is increasingly accepted, both at academic level and by public administrations and supranational institutions, especially the European Union. From the field of knowledge and research, more solid and forceful evidence is provided that establish causal links between culture and creativity and multiple impacts on social and economic variables. This chapter summarizes the main results of a study that, through new and complex causal machine learning techniques, analyzes the impacts of cultural and creative sectors in European regions on various welfare dimensions, including income, employment, education, health or sense of community, among others. The results confirm that, both in Europe and in the Spanish regions in particular, the effects are positive in most areas for most regions. This shows the potential of culture and creativity to activate regional development processes and improve the well-being of European citizens.

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Algunas consideraciones sobre las posibilidades de monetización de servicios culturales digitales

Rausell Köster, Pau

Cultura en Digital. Innovación digital para nuevas audiencias.

Digitalisation and the spread of the internet have radically changed the context in which symbolic production is exchanged. Rigid texts, stories, tales, images, films or representations that previously required either synchronicity between sender and receiver or physical supports (books, rolls of film, frames, various materials or photographic paper) to move them from one place to another, in a few short years, with their conversion into zeros and ones, have become ethereal products that can travel at the speed of light from one part of the world to another. We are facing a true revolution in the transport of symbolic goods and, just as the transport revolution triggered the Industrial...

Digitalisation and the spread of the internet have radically changed the context in which symbolic production is exchanged. Rigid texts, stories, tales, images, films or representations that previously required either synchronicity between sender and receiver or physical supports (books, rolls of film, frames, various materials or photographic paper) to move them from one place to another, in a few short years, with their conversion into zeros and ones, have become ethereal products that can travel at the speed of light from one part of the world to another. We are facing a true revolution in the transport of symbolic goods and, just as the transport revolution triggered the Industrial Revolution, this new revolution leads us to the digital society, where all symbols, including money, can be broken down into binary codes.

Cultural and creative industries as a potential European specialisation strategy: some prospects for industrial policy

Sanjuán Belda, Jordi

Noticias de Política Económica.

Journal Number 40

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Urban Planning and Culture projects developed in collaboration with CULTURALINK

Ramos Murphy, Antono Segovia Collado, Chema Rausell Köster et al.

Repositorio.

MEASURING THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF CULTURE. HANDBOOK.

Editors: Lluís Bonet and Giada Calvano Authors and research contributors of this book: University of Barcelona: Lluís Bonet, Giada Calvano, Núria Codina, Pablo Fernández Compañ, Montserrat Pareja Eastaway, Jose Vicente Pestana, Carlos Sancho Gómez, Anna Villarroya. University of Valencia: Borja Abril, Sendy Ghirardi, Jordi Sanjuan, Francesco Molinari, Amparo Oliver, Pau Rausell Köster. Politecnico de Milano: Irene Bianchi, Grazia Concilio, Ilaria Tosoni. University of Rijeka: Božidar Kovaćić, Sanda Marcinćić, Dragan Šišić. KEA: Arthur Le Gall. Trànsit Projectes: Jordi Baltà, Danielle Bishop.

MESOC (Measuring the Social Dimension of Culture) is a European project that focused on the measurement of the societal value and impacts of cultural policies and practices. Implemented between 2020 and 2023 with funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, 2014-2020), MESOC has proposed, tested and validated an innovative and original approach for measuring the value and impacts of culture on society.

Dels equipaments culturals a la ciutat cultural. L’experiència projectiva de la Ciutat de l’Artista Faller a València

Pau Rausell-Köster Antonio Ramos Murphy Chema Segovia Collado

DEBATS, Revista de cultura, poder i societat,. No.Vol. 137 No 1 (2023)

Cultural Facilities in The Cultural City Model: Key lessons from Valencia’s Ciutat de l’Artista Faller projectThis paper reviews the idea of cultural facilities with a view to broadening our grasp of the role culture plays in today’s cities. In developing our argument, we first give a brief overview of the management and governance of major cities in Spain since the restoration of democracy, stressing the role played by cultural facilities. We then reflect on cultural facilities, situating them within the framework of the Cultural Democratization Model — a public policy paradigm whose major limitations and shortcomings need to be addressed. Our proposed alternative is ‘The Cultural City’...

Cultural Facilities in The Cultural City Model: Key lessons from Valencia’s Ciutat de l’Artista Faller projectThis paper reviews the idea of cultural facilities with a view to broadening our grasp of the role culture plays in today’s cities. In developing our argument, we first give a brief overview of the management and governance of major cities in Spain since the restoration of democracy, stressing the role played by cultural facilities. We then reflect on cultural facilities, situating them within the framework of the Cultural Democratization Model — a public policy paradigm whose major limitations and shortcomings need to be addressed. Our proposed alternative is ‘The Cultural City’ framework, which provides conceptual tools for reorienting and reconnecting cultural and urban policies. This framework recognizes the city as an artifact with three basic functions: Repository, Interface, and Stage, and puts citizens’ cultural rights and needs first. The paper takes the case of the Strategic Framework for the Transformation and Recovery of the Ciutat de l’Artista Faller to exemplify the scope offered by The Cultural City model. The case studied reveals a cultural strategy for fostering urban transformation, and a productive environment based on The Arts, creativity, and innovation. To this end, the project stresses cultural access, a collaborative locus of experience, encounter, and collaboration. The final goal of this approach to greatly broaden citizens’ cultural rights.Keywords: cultural democratization; city; urban planning; cultural policies; Valencia; Fallas

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LOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN A CULTURAL KEY. Guanarteme-Plaza del Pilar. A conceptual and methodological proposal for the connection of urban and cultural policy.

Chema Segovia, Tony Ramos Murphy & Pau Rausell-Köster

This publication contains the Neighbourhood-City Development Strategy in Cultural Key for Guanarteme-Plaza del Pilar, prepared by the Culturalink team on behalf of the Town Planning Department of the City Council of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. By Guanarteme-Plaza del Pilar we refer to the foundational nucleus of the Guanarteme neighbourhood, a highly recognisable urban environment, organised around the Plaza del Pilar and located at the south-western end of Las Canteras Beach. Guanarteme-Plaza del Pilar is a highly unique neighbourhood. This statement needs to be understood in a broad sense and is based on the historical background of the place, its built fabric, its social fabric, the...

This publication contains the Neighbourhood-City Development Strategy in Cultural Key for Guanarteme-Plaza del Pilar, prepared by the Culturalink team on behalf of the Town Planning Department of the City Council of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. By Guanarteme-Plaza del Pilar we refer to the foundational nucleus of the Guanarteme neighbourhood, a highly recognisable urban environment, organised around the Plaza del Pilar and located at the south-western end of Las Canteras Beach. Guanarteme-Plaza del Pilar is a highly unique neighbourhood. This statement needs to be understood in a broad sense and is based on the historical background of the place, its built fabric, its social fabric, the economic activities it houses and the symbolic universe that surrounds it. Over the last half century, the urban dynamic that has run through Guanarteme-Plaza del Pilar has had an ambivalent character. The neighbourhood has shown a particular resilience, but also fragilities and risks that need to be addressed. The detailed work of analysis and diagnosis with which the design of the strategy began delves into these issues and is presented in the second section of this publication. Faced with a complex and sensitive context for action, the proposals section of the Guanarteme-Plaza del Pilar strategy established two main premises for its elaboration. Firstly, the aim was to overcome the supposed dichotomies that exist between the neighbourhood scale and the city scale, simultaneously seeking to make a positive contribution to life in Guanarteme-Plaza del Pilar and to reinforce the connection of the neighbourhood with the dynamics of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria as a whole and even with the island scale. In relation to this concern, the strategy was also conceived as a pilot project, potentially replicable in other neighbourhoods of the city, to make the spaces of proximity and everyday life in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria also spaces of centrality and productivity. As a second key premise, although the development of the strategy employed a broad as well as specific vision of the possibilities of urban policies, it was decided that this would be done from a clearly cultural perspective. This point leads to looking at urban space in a way that is particularly attentive to its symbolic contents and also introduces its own mode of intervention, characterised by transversality, creativity and processual logic. The way in which these two basic intentions are realised and the set of proposals that the strategy formulates are included in the third section of this publication.

Cambios de modelos en cultura: por una nueva hoja de ruta para el sector cultural

Abeledo, Raül Rausell, Pau

Cultura para la Vida.

Abeledo and Pau Rausell delve into the value of cultural and creative industries beyond the rhetoric about the therapeutic and utilitarian value of culture. On the contrary, in the urgent transformation of the narrative of unlimited development and the need to invert the order of priorities, the incorporation of cultural capital (values, narratives, imaginaries, lifestyles) becomes an essential condition for the governance of this systemic transformation.

Exploring the Evidence-Based Driving Factors of Innovation in Arts and Cultural Organizations

Chuan Li, Vicente Coll-Serrano, Pau Rausell-Köster

Empirical Studies of the Arts.

Innovation in arts and cultural sectors is an emerging study. Exploring and identifying driving factors of innovation by arts and cultural organizations can help to understand the implications for innovation management and thus, strengthening the competitiveness of arts and cultural sectors. But the existing literature on this topic usually is subject to some limitations due to the shortage of empirical evidence and overemphasis on technological innovation. To overcome it, this article explored evidence-based determinants of innovation in museums organizations, based on survey data and statistical approach; furthermore, it also extended the scope of innovation from technological to cultural...

Innovation in arts and cultural sectors is an emerging study. Exploring and identifying driving factors of innovation by arts and cultural organizations can help to understand the implications for innovation management and thus, strengthening the competitiveness of arts and cultural sectors. But the existing literature on this topic usually is subject to some limitations due to the shortage of empirical evidence and overemphasis on technological innovation. To overcome it, this article explored evidence-based determinants of innovation in museums organizations, based on survey data and statistical approach; furthermore, it also extended the scope of innovation from technological to cultural and organizational dimensions. Our findings provide empirical evidence for existing theoretical propositions—some propositions are supported and the others are not. Based on these conclusions, some implications are developed for innovation management in museum organizations.