Last year I had the pleasure of traveling to Zagreb, Croatia, to take part in a panel discussion entitled “Global Perspectives on Democratic Innovation in Cultural Governance” as part of the Seminar “The Age of Cultural Participation: Democratic Roles and Consequences” organized by Kultura Nova Foundation on November 7th and 8th of 2019. Here is the video of our panel, and a link to all the presentations.
Speakers: Kiley Arroyo (San Francisco Cultural Strategies Council, USA), Mauricio Delfin (Asociación Civil Solar, PE), Arundhati Ghosh (India Foundation for the Arts, IN)
Chair: Ana Žuvela (Institute for Development and International Relations, HR)
Discussion topic:
Reflections and considerations on cultural governance in the global context. Cultural democracy, being the birthplace of cultural governance, represents a certain response to the democratic maladies of contemporary societies. The original notions of cultural democracy, affirming concepts of multiculturalism, participation, cultural rights, a bottom-up approach, accessibility and the like, along with the historiographic and socio-political context of origin, are (almost) inherently Eurocentric. In that sense, the discussion aims to address the responses to cultural democracy through cultural governance which constructs anew the concept of cultural democracy in the form of a myriad of practices and policy progressions in a non-European, non-Western world that seek to create more genuine and adaptive connections between citizens, communities and culture. The presentations examine these types of practices, policy progressions and innovations in their own right and in the light of their role in the contribution to new visions of cultural democracy.
The Age of Cultural Participation: Democratic Roles and Consequences Seminar was organized by Kultura Nova Foundation with partners Cultural participation network and the Centre for Cultural Policy at the University of Leeds and the Danish research network Take Part from Aarhus University.
ENCATC labeled event | 7th and 8th November 2019