The European Commission has recently published conference conclusions related to engaging with European Audiences: 2020 and beyond. The conference “European Audiences: 2020 and beyond” took place in October 2012 and brought together some 800 culture professionals in Brussels, including ARTidea‘s, Diane Dodd. The subject of discussion was how to engage
Over 200 delegates gathered in Paris last week to discuss the emerging field of creative tourism. The event was hosted by the city of Paris, which now has its own creative tourism portal – creativeparis.info. The presentations ranged from academic analyses of the need for creativity in modern society to
Yap Mun Ching While I love Malaysian food and have always appreciated it in all its many forms, I believe that our fixation with it may have also grown to become a cause and symptom of a national illness. In the first place, our obsession with food seems to have
Publication: The story of arts and cultural policy in the twenty-first century is inherently of global concern no matter how local it seems. At the same time, questions of identity have in many ways become more challenging than before. Narrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy: Once Upon a
Dr. Diane Dodd from ARTidea attended, as an observer, the meeting entitled ‘Participation and Citizenship: can cultural institutions in Europe lead the way? Should they?’ organised by the Platform for Intercultural Europe, 5-6 June 2012, in Brussels. The meeting looked at problems related to diversity and solutions needed to bring
Valletta has passed the first selection phase, as a prospective European Capital of Culture for 2018. The chairman of the evaluation panel, Manfred Gaulhofer, announced that the jury was “pleased with Valletta’s bid and was confident the city would live up to its obligations.” If Valletta makes it through the
Prof. Greg Richards from Tilburg University and President of IGCAT, together with Dr. Diane Dodd Director of ART-idea and IGCAT carried out an intensive skype, meeting with the team preparing Valletta’s bid to be European Capital of Culture in 2018. The one day meeting was an opportunity to take a critical
Publication: The Institute für Kulturkonzepte, based in Vienna and Hamburg, have published, for the third time, “An Anatomy of Arts Management” in their range of specialist books on arts management including articles in English and German. This year the articles are influenced by the development of arts management and relate
