How Culture Works in Practice

Welcome and introduction

Input: Why and how “Culture Works

• Why a specific evaluation concept for cultural work?
• How does it work? What are experiences so far?
• And what are the challenges we are confronted with?

Breakout Sessions

1. Purpose: What are the expectations of evaluation? Legitimation vs. learning? Transparency? What’s the benefit and for whom?

2. Indicators and methodology: What are good indicators for cultural work? What methods are suitable? How to bring indicators and methodology together with a process-oriented approach and unintended effects?

3. Toolbox: How could an evaluation project look like with the objective to create a toolbox for evaluating cultural work?

Moderators:

Presentation of results and conclusion

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