Adeste+ Pre-conference: “Culture and public at a turning point”
Opening Conference with Eleonora Belfiore, Giuliana Ciancio, Niels Righolt & Pier Luigi Sacco. Adeste+ invites you to watch an interesting online conference that focuses on the current challenges for arts- and cultural institutions and their audiences. We explored the latest perspectives on concepts of cultural democracy and audience development and looked at its relevance for organizations. Niels […]
European Conference 2020 · 1st episode: “Culture’s place in our lives”
Throughout the COVID19 outbreak, half of the world's population has been on lockdown. Cancelled fairs, festivals and concerts, closed clubs and shut-down theatres: we were all affected. Yet, in a time of desolation and deprivation, we have once again invited culture into our homes. Watching streaming series and movies, listening to music, reading books, we […]
European Conference · 2nd episode: “A new vision for culture? Integrity, direction and relevance”
Panellists: Sajida Carr, Arjo Klamer, Francois Matarasso, Deise Faria Nunes, Goran Tomka, Ana Žuvela. Chair: Macarena Cuenca. Moderators: Sajida Carr, Philipp Dietachmair, Francois Matarasso, Davor Mišković, Lana Pavlović Aleksić. Some of our cultural institutions are already centuries old. But today's arts and cultural scene has widened to embrace multitudes. Film, design, comics, graffiti, photography, jazz, […]
European Conference · 3rd episode: “The cultural institution – what needs to change?”
Panellists: Teodor Celakoski, Félix Dupin-Meynard, Victoria Durrer. Chair: Dea Vidović. Presenter: Christian Jull Wendell (Institute for X, Denmark) and Janja Sesar (Pogon). In the discussion on balance between elitism and cultural democracy we tackled the question of excellence and managerialism which is a dominant principle in which cultural institutions are run nowadays. It seems through […]
European Conference · 4th episode: “Rethinking participation strategically”
Panellists: Lise Korsgaard, Chiara Organtini, Ben Walmsley, Daniel Wetzel. Chair: Jonathan Goodacre. Presenters: Jeannette Ehlers, Matteo Lanfranchi, WochenKlausur. This session looks at how participation and engagement in culture is being affected by the new world of crisis and social distancing and how, as cultural professionals, we should respond. At a time when artists and audiences […]
Summer School · 1st module: “Why do we need to change? What do audiences have to do with that?”
In the past decade we are more and more confronted with the demands to include audience more actively in the work of our cultural organisations and institutions. Thus ADESTE+ partners have worked on developing strategies that would go beyond usual approaches to the audience and engage whole organisation in this work since it is a […]
European Conference 2020 · 5th episode: “Tempestuous times – the crisis – recovery and change”
Panellists: Nico Carpentier, Richard Evans, Arundhati Ghosh, Olga Wysocka. Chair: Inês Bettencourt da Câmara. Presenters: Melissa Dibble, Søren Friis Møller, Marcin Poprawski. This session looks at what will happen when we open our doors and step back into the world. It looks at what could be the role of culture in our new lives and […]
Summer School · 2nd module: “Are we ready for change? What pressures (external and internal) are we under?” (Unfreeze)
Only few weeks ago all the changes seemed to take a lot of time and building paths that will bring to it. But, the sudden crisis has showed that change is not only possible, but also necessary. Though unwanted with severe consequences, we can look at it as a possibility to be embraced. What are […]
Summer School · 3rd module: “Where can we find allies for change? For whom should we need to change?” (Listen)
Allies for change could be everywhere: in our colleagues, sometimes in our bosses or stakeholders, certainly in our audiences. But we have to learn to listen, to develop empathy, to understand other points of views. Putting ourselves in other people shoes could guide us towards the direction of (which) change we need; a deeper understanding […]
Summer School · 4th module: “How to go beyond our usual safe path? How to develop creativity into change?” (Create)
Change means going out of our comfort zone, exploring new paths, experience new solutions. But it’s not easy: we need to develop our divergent thinking and explore our (and others) creativity to come up with innovative solutions, both for our audiences and our organisations. How to be more playful in the ideation process? How to […]
