Uncharted: A European Investigation on the Value of Culture
Seminar/Forum
Seminar room, 12th floor
Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture
168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
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In recent decades, with the growing emphasis on the creative economy, culture has tended to be increasingly seen in political circles under the exclusive lens of the economy and its contribution to it. To counteract this tendency, it is necessary to define the social values associated with culture on a different basis from the traditional one. The work focuses on the valuation practices of the actors involved in cultural life.
In this respect, three areas and three types of fundamental actors in the value dynamics of culture are distinguished: the field of cultural participation, in which citizenship is the protagonist; the field of cultural production and heritage, where the professionals of creation and preservation are the ones who take the initiative; and the field of cultural administration, in which it is the experts and politicians who decide.
The project takes these three areas and this basic typology of actors as a starting point to structure the study of the different aspects involved in this evaluative dynamic: the emergence of values, the configuration of a value order and the political impulse of values.
UNCHARTED will be carried out by a consortium of ten partners from February 2020 to January 2024.
The presentation will show the European challenges that the project addresses in the context of current cultural changes, its specific approach and the research logic it follows. It will also highlight the way the project plans to articulate cultural value analysis and cultural policy research.
Presenter
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Dr Arturo Rodríguez Morató, Director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Politics and Society at the University of BarcelonaDr Arturo Rodríguez Morató
Director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Politics and Society at the University of Barcelona
University of Barcelona
Arturo Rodríguez Morató is Full Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Politics and Society at the University of Barcelona. Former Vice President for Research of the International Sociological Association (20062010) and Former President of its Research Committee on Sociology of the Arts (19982002). He was Director of the First ISA Forum of Sociology in 2008. He has been Visiting Scholar at the EHESS and the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris, at the New School for Social Research in New York, and at the University of Cambridge (UK).He has been Principal Investigator of several funded research projects within the Spanish National Plan of R+D+i. From 2015 to 2017 he has been Coordinator of the project CulturalBase and currently he coordinates UNCHARTED both projects funded by the EU H2020 Programme. He has published extensively on cultural policy, cultural occupations, urban culture and cultural sociology, in journals like European Urban and Regional Studies, International Sociologyor City, Culture & Society, among others. Lately he has coedit a book on La Nueva Sociología de las Artes (Gedisa, 2017) and a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Policy (24, 5, 2018)
